To Kill A Mockingbird Rough Draft Analysis

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Rough draft To kill a Mockingbird essay. Quade Forester Jem is a young boy who grew up through a court trial and many other incidents that occurred during his childhood. Jem is a character in the book: To Kill a Mocking bird by Harper Lee and he grows and develops new thoughts on life. To Kill a Mocking bird portrays growing up through Jem’s lessons and experiences. Jem is taught life lessons through others true courage changing his viewpoint on courage. Mrs. Dubose is a racist older lady who lives on the same street but little does Jem know that she is fighting a morphine addiction. Jem thinks he has courage before learning of Mrs. Dubose’s addiction and boasts that he has “never declined a dare”. The …show more content…

Jem learns of innocence and wants to care for and help the innocent because Tom Robinson was innocent but the jury easily said guilty. Scout sees a roly-poly and wants to mash it but Jem replies with “’because they don’t bother you”’. This shows how Jem has grown because he wants to protect the roly-poly because it did no harm just like Tom Robinson did no harm. This incident also displays how Jem is starting to turn into Atticus by defending the innocent and standing up for his viewpoints that are different than others. Jem sees that the evidence points towards Tom being innocent but when he is guilty Jem questions if there should even be a jury if it isn’t fair but Atticus says if there is no jury than no defense, judge, or any other place on a jury and Jem learns that life isn’t always fair and you just have to live with it. Atticus shows Jem a new meaning of courage and teaches him something new by defending Tom Robinson even though no one else did. Atticus did this because it was the right thing to do and nobody else had the courage to do it. Jem grows up to mirror Atticus by thinking in a similar way and gaining the courage to stand up for what he believes in against opposition and judgment even if everyone else seems to be against

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