When Dill comes round Jem is not such a novelty to Scout, as she kind of shows him the cold shoulder. She does not stick with him sometimes but sticks with Dill even though Jem is bigger, stronger and older than Dill. “We left the corner, crossed the side street that ran in front of the Radley House, and stopped at the gate”. “Well go on”, said Dill, “Scout and me are right behind you” “I’m going” said Jem don’t hurry me” I think Dill does show to be the one that pressures Scout as he is the one that tells Jem to go first. But then three lines down Scout sneers at Jem making it feel as though she is not giving Jem the respect he deserves.
A big scene in to kill a mockingbird with Jem and Scout is near the end where it is the at Jem and Scout’s school. On the way home Jem can hear things when he and his sister walk and tells her to stop when they do she can’t hear anything so they stop and when they start to walk again Scout can hear it this time as well so they both stop. When Bob Ewell jumps out Jem tells Scout to run trying to defend her he tries to fight off Bob Ewell. This show’s that Jem wants to defend his sister as he sticks up for her and tells her what to do. I think that is the biggest relationship in the story but I think there are also a few more important ones which can be discussed.
Starting off with Jem and Scout and their father Atticus, in to kill a mockingbird Jem goes to his father to ask him questions and for advice, when he find’s out that his father is representing a black man in court he is not too impressed, and feels embarrassed to go to school as the children laugh and make fun of him. But when he hears more about it he feels better about it and realises that it’s his father’s job. He realises that his father did not ask to do it but that who he works for chooses the cases which he does. In the story there are pieces where Atticus gives Jem and Scout advice and when Jem and Scout have there rifles which they got for Christmas they are going to use them in the garden. Atticus tells them “I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit them, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mocking bird”
Another encounter between these three is when Atticus is watching over Tom Robinson at the jailhouse so they decide to go and see what he is doing, but when they get there Atticus told them to leave but Jem said no. When one of the men grabs Jem by the collar Scout kicks him. Then they realise the men are not nice but want to hurt Tom Robinson, Scout starts to sweet talk Mr Cunningham and basically saves Tom’s and her fathers life. “Hey, Mr Cunningham”, “I go to school with Walter“He’s in my grade” I said and he does right well. He’s a good boy. Tell him hey for me, wont you?”. “I’ll tell him you said hey, little lady” Then he straightened up and waved a big paw. “Let’s clear out,” he called. “Let’s get going, boys.” Here it shows Scout and Jem helping out their father.
The last big relationship I feel there is in to kill a mocking bird is between Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson. Atticus meet’s Tom when he find’s out half way through the book that he has to represent him in a court case. He find’s out that he has to represent a black man by the name of Tom Robinson. He knows it is his job and he knows that he will get a lot of stick and jibe’s from fellow members of the Macomb County District. It is a hard price to pay, but in the end he makes a new friend. Atticus new he would have little hope of winning but he knows he would also he would get put down for not taking on a case. When he starts to talk to Tom Robinson he finds out things about him and that he is a generally nice guy, not a rapist that the Ewell’s are trying to get him convicted for. Right from when Atticus first met Tom till he got sentenced Atticus had a very friendly relationship with Tom. After being arrested for supposedly ‘raping’ Mayella Ewell, Tom felt that he could not trust white people, but when Atticus came and took on his case, started talking to Tom and becoming friendly with Tom. Tom felt he could trust Atticus. Up till the trial Atticus looks after Tom and makes sure he is not harassed by anyone. The night before the trial Atticus is lucky, as he stays by Tom’s cell to make sure no one tries anything. That night Mr Cunningham and his crew come wanting to hurt Tom but luckily for Tom, Atticus is there and Scout manages to talk to Mr Cunningham and get them to leave. When the trial comes Atticus tries his hardest to prove Tom is innocent. He tries different way’s and one is when he tells Bob Ewell to write some thing which he does then Atticus asks which side of the face did Mayella get hit on. Atticus makes it so that he catches out Bob. Atticus then asks Tom to come up and asks him to pickup a glass fully knowing he can’t. This shows signs that it was not Tom who committed the rape but someone else. Even though Atticus proves this the Jury still finds Tom guilty of rape obviously because he is black and Bob Ewell is white. I think these are the main relationships in to kill a mockingbird, but there are also more but which are no way near as big.
