Courageous Jem in To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird explores a flesh of themes, such as education, bravery and specially growing up. In fact, it is considered a coming-of-age novel as it shows the growth in Jem and sentinel as the entertain progresses, charm they face difficulties and experiences that lead them to run more responsible. In the novel, Jem especially exemplifies the theme of braveness, and as he matures, how his own perception of resolution tilts.\nAt the beginning of the book, Jem generally sees endurance as tangible courage, and In all his life, [had] never declined a dare. Hence, because of this idea of courage which in, he accepts dills dare to go touch the Radley house, even though he was scared by the idea of it and sibilation Radley. In a separate incident, when Jem precious to pass a stock to Boo Radley, he got his knickerbockers caught on the Radley places fence. Because he did non privation to disappoint Atticus by letting him find expose that he was teasing Boo Radley, he went back to take a leak his pants although he knew that it was dangerous. He knew that he might get at shot by Nathan Radley and be injured or worse, however his courage and determination non to disappoint Atticus triumphed everywhere his fear of injury. However, this type of courage is only physical courage and in fact is not clean courage. Although he was equal to overcome his fears, what he did was for sale and wrong. Ideally, he should have possess up and faced the music, which would be morally courageous. Since he did not seem to be discredited about the wrong that he did, he probably did not consider the morals of what he did very much.\nHowever, as the book progresses, his perception of courage seems to change to one more of moral courage. He demonstrates this in some(prenominal) incidents, first of all when dill ran away from home. Although Scout is take aback that her brother would break the be code of [their] childhood, Jem goes forth to tell on dill as he knows that it is not morally right to look at Dills flummox w...