CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

Character Development

Harper Lee's to Kill a Mocking Bird

Lee carefully structures her novel around a double plot and the double theme, the novel is divided evenly into two parts(Lee Bloom 2010). In his elegant, understated style, Lee weaves together the story of two children who grow up in a small Southern town, and a story about children's father, a white lawyer who defends a black man unjustly accused of raping a white woman. Since both stories involve Gem, Scout and Atticus, a first-person narration Scout, with its emphasis on the development of these three characters, brings together various plot lines.

Scout and her brother, Jem, both children morally passionate lawyer, Atticus Finch, and both are the same experiences that shape a sense of good and evil(Atkinson 1999). Nevertheless, Scout and Jem come to sharply different conclusions about good and evil and the essence of humanity. Write an explanatory essay on "To Kill a Mockingbird," in which you develop an understanding of how Scout and Jem arrive at such different conceptions of the world. Be sure to consider not only the final world, where everyone goes, but look at the novel as a whole and determine how their belief systems evolve. Include relevant quotes that demonstrate how, despite their shared experiences, Scout and Jem begin to leave, philosophically speaking, at the beginning of the novel.The development of Jem's character

Ten years when the book begins, Jeremy "Jem" Finch serves as the Playmate Scout and protector. Entering adolescence during a Mockingbird, Jem matures as he struggles with issues of racism and intolerance (Freedman 2000). On the verge of manhood, Jem goes through phases when it comes to grips with the past of their family and their future role in society.

Sometimes moody and sullen, and sometimes kind and gentle, Gem acts as a leader, as he helps Scout understand how to get along in school, and remind her to respect Atticus and other elders.

Attention to the narrator's Jem has a special significance for the structure and meaning of history. Lee creates

Scout as very cute, funny character, but she invests Jem with depth and complexity of the literary hero (Bartneck Verbunt Mubin 2007). Each section of the book begins and ends with a description of Jem, as he matures and changes. Scout begins his story with the statement: “When he was about thirteen, my brother Jem got a broken arm at the elbow," The rest of the story from one simple revelation, and the last chapter, when the injury actually occurs, a broken arm is symbolic value.

Throughout most of Part 1, Jem is a child who plays pretend games with Scout and Dill, and by the end of the first part, he began to understand the difference between right and wrong, good and evil. Scout narrative reflects this development; it begins part 2, said: "Jem was twelve years old, he was hard to live with, inconsistent, Moody."

Consequently, Scout sets the tone for the section of the novel, which deals primarily with the ...