Jem Finch Quotes

In the small town of Maycomb, Alabama a racism problem arises in the county court system, when a black man is tried on attempted rape against a white girl. The story is based around the Finch family it consists of Atticus, Jem, Scout, Aunt Rachel and Calpernia. Atticus the father is put into a hard pressed situation when the judge appoints Atticus to defend Tom Robinson, the black man accused of raping a white girl. The whole town is against Atticus defending Tom and their whole family Is taking a verbal beating from members of the town that don’t like blacks people. The following paragraphs are going to be aimed at Jem Finch the oldest son who is starting to mature and understand things in a new way. Some of the things he is going to realize is that he has a new sense of family pride/caring; another is his new view on being a leader. He is finally taking responsibility for all of his actions.
Dubose is talking badly about Atticus and Jem takes scouts baton and starts destroying her flowers and is saying that what she saying is not true and that he isn’t what she says, like in the quote” “this quote explains that Jem was only defending Atticus when he was being bad mouthed and that Jem wouldn’t let that happen when he is around to hear it. Another time when Jem is showing caring toward his family is when him scout and dill get caught sneaking onto the Radlys porch trying to see boo in the house. He has to think about scout and dill when this happens because he cares about the members of his family more and more because he is finally getting mature enough to see how important they are to