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Jem Finch Quotes
Angel Arriaga
Dr.Mink
ELA
12,November,2015
Jem Finch
Jem is the far oldest child in the finch family, since he has a sister named scout who is the narrator of the the whole book and is 4 years younger than him ,but jem plays an important role in this story. Through his years he starts to change and become more sensitive than he was before. When he was thirteen he had a injury on his left. scouts says in the book “My brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.” (Ch 1 Pg.1). He had a fear that he would never be able to play football again which apparently it healed and he didn’t have to worry about it no more.
Jem can be that kind of good brother or not. Because apparently he bosses scout too much which is a bad side of him which
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Jem has a imaginative side of him and is descriptive storyteller, He starts to tell Dill and her sister scout about how tall he think is on his very imaginative way“he is about six and half feet tall, judging by his height.” He will tell them why he never comes out outside most of the time and why he's always inside his house or how he sleeps during night to Dill and Scout “(Boo) Mr. Radley always gets chained most of the time in his bed” and then continues on to explain a lot more details of Boo’s personal looks that jem makes of and personality. He tells Dill and Scout that Boo “He eats raw squirrels and any cats he could find or catch with his two bare hands. That’s why his hands were all covered in bloodstained most of the time” and he also says about a some kind of horrible scar on his face and the inside of his nasty/ugly teeth that he could think of so he could give it a more creepier/nasty look of him “he had a huge scar on his face and his teeth that he has are yellow and rotten and he drooled most of the time”said-Jem. He said ”He wasn’t seen over 15 years”(Ch.1 Pg.12,13,14). Jem can be that kind of brave type,but in the inside he can be a bit scared of a few things he try ,but sometimes you can see that boy shake those legs like if he was shivering because of cold air, but was mostly fear itself that made him feel like cold air hit him. He can be brave since he tried to ring (Boo) Radley’s door bell from his

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