Jem is the oldest child in the Finch family. He is four years old than his sister, Scout, who also was his playmate. He is a strong typically american boy. He loves talking and fantasizing over football. Slowly throughout the novel, he starts to separate himself from Scout and leans more towards spending his time and getting closer to Dill. He still remains to be somewhat close with her and protects her throughout the novel. He also realizes during the novel his childish ways, and begins to so called "grow up" and becomes more and more like an adult. At the end of the trial in the novel and he hears the verdict, he gets very upset over the evil and injustice that occurs to Tom Robinson and doesn't think its right to accuse someone of doing a crime they didn't comit because of their race. During the novel Jem showed the readers that he was growing up and maturing. At the beginning of the novel Jem was child-like and got into mischief along with Dill and Scout. Him and Scout were really close and he spent a lot of time with his sister. As the novel progessed on and the trial started, is when he showed the readers how he was maturing. Scout went to Jem one day and told him that Dill was under her bed. Instead of hiding it from Atticus, Jem went and told him. Scout didn't want Atticus knowing about the sitiuation but since Dill was a run away and his parents didn't know, he thought Atticus should know about him running away. Another thing about him growing up was him not playing games with his sister. Since him and his sister were close it hurt her feelings but he wasn't intrested in playing child-like games.
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