What is the relationship between Jem and Scout?
What is the relationship between Jem and Scout?
Jem and Scout are brother and sister, and are Atticus Finch’s only children. Their mother died of natural causes when Scout was little. On the whole, the two get along fairly well. They serve as co-conspirators and playmates throughout the book.
How does Jem and Scout’s relationship change in Chapter 5?
How does Jem and Scout’s relationship change in Chapter 5? By chapter 5 , Scout mentions that Jem begins to spend more time with Dill and excludes her from their games. Scout feels left out and is forced to spend time with Miss Maudie on her porch instead of playing with the boys.
What is the relationship between Dill and Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird?
Dill and Scout are friends because they are close in age, and Dill asks her to “marry” him. Charles Baker Harris, also known as Dill, is Scout and Jem’s neighbor in the summer when he comes to stay with his Aunt Rachel. He is six years old when they first meet him. He is proud that he can read.
How does the relationship between Scout and Jem change over the first 7 chapters?
At this point, Scout becomes more resistant to games that involve Boo Radley. As a result, Jem and Dill begin to exclude Scout. By the end of chapter 7, Jem’s crying is mysterious to Scout, but his adolescent changes have not yet truly started.
How does Scout understand the changes Jem undergoes?
Scout finds Jem moody, angry and prone to long silences. Jem is maturing into a young man with all the questions, confusion and chaos that goes with adolescence. Scout asks Calpurnia if she might be able to fix Jem by beating him up.
How is Jem changing?
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem changes in two ways in Chapter Four. First of all, he starts to become more protective of Scout. She gets home a half hour before he does. One day, running home, Scout notices something in the hole of a tree: it is a stick of gum, which she promptly puts in her mouth.
How did Jem Finch change?
Jem becomes more cynical and starts to see why Boo Radley stays inside, when the world that he lives in is so cruel. This climatic event truly shows how Jem changed throughout the story; from an immature kid who harassed his shy neighbor, to selfless older brother who risked his life to protect his sister.
What does scout say no longer scares her?
Scout is no longer terrified by the Radley place as she stands on the porch and looks across at her own house because she is finally able to “climb into [another’s] skin and walk around in it.”
Why does scout ask repeatedly if Jem died?
After I confirmed that Dill and Francis bore different surnames, he explained his rationale for asking the question: if Jem is dead, the Finch name is Scout’s to preserve.
Who was protecting Atticus at the jail?
Atticus sits outside of the jail in order to protect Tom Robinson from the lynch mob. Jem and Scout follow him, but they stay far enough away that he can’t see them.
How does Scout manage to end the danger?
How does Scout manage to end the danger? She singles out Mr. Cunningham and talks to him about Walter and then that lowers the tensions causing the mob to break up and leave.
What does Atticus say scout did?
Atticus does tell Scout to learn to deal with a variety of people by looking at life through their eyes. More specifically, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (30).
How does Scout stop?
By talking to Mr. Cunningham, Scout reminds him that he is a father just as Atticus is. She calms Cunningham and the other men down by making them realize that all of them are residents of Maycomb.
What is Jem scared of?
Jem is fearful of going onto the Radley porch in order to peek through the window with the broken shutter. He is afraid that Atticus will find out that he has lied to him about playing with matches. He is certainly frightened when he is attacked by Bob Ewell.