How do Scout and Jem change and develop during the course of the novel?

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How do Scout and Jem change and develop during the course of the novel?

Firstly at the beginning of the novel scout and Jem are childish and play childish games.

‘Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo radley come out.’

In the novel making Boo radley come out is seen as a childish game because boo never comes out. The adults of maycomb just leave him alone as he has not been out all of his life. This shows scout’s and Jem’s immaturity because they just think of what they want, which is to see boo radley, not what boo may want to do.

In addition another example of scout’s and Jem’s immaturity is they are jealous over a lot of things.

‘Our father didn’t do anything. He worked in an office not in a drug store. He was not sheriff or anything that would possibly arouse the admiration of anyone.’

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Here we see Jem and scout acting childish because they are jealous of other people’s fathers. This shows childish behavior because when you get older you know it isn’t what job your dad does which makes him good, it is his personality and what is inside that matter.

Furthermore another example of the children’s immaturity is that scout believes every word that Jem says.

‘When I asked Jem what entailment was he described it as a condition of having your tail in a crack.’

This shows Jem’s immaturity because he describes the meaning of the word wrong as he ...

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