This caused Scout to bother Jem about playing the Radley game, "My nagging got the better of Jem eventually, as I knew it would, and to my relief we slowed down the game for a while" Lee After constantly fighting whether Scout is going to further explore the Radley house, it started to get on Jem's nerves. The differences between genders also plays a big role in the parting of the Finch kids.
With Scout maturing, she will change her opinions and thoughts to be increaslingly similar to those of a girl. When Scout was younger she had more of a boy's personalitity due to the fact that she spent so much time being around Jem. Now that Scout is more independent, the two siblings will begin to "part company".
Will Atticus notice the changes of Scout and Jem's relationship and try to intervene? How will Jem respond to Scout's girlish behavior? Will Jem continue to explore the Radley house without Dill and Scout? How does Scout and Jem's "parting company" affect how Scout will behave in school with her peers? She is bombarded with male energy and feels a certain need to live up to the male people in her life.
That being said she is a woman and being a woman in the 's meant being less than a man. As she furthers her journey into womanhood this will become a lasting struggle for her. Scout and Jem had always been extremely close growing up, but when Scout tells the readers that, "It was then that Jem and I first began to part company," Lee, 75 it is clear that they are beginning to drift apart.
Before Scout's realization, she is arguing with Jem about whether or not he should try to go back to the Radley's house to get the pants that got caught in the fence when Dill, Scout, and Jem were running away from Nathan Radley's shotgun. Scout is begging Jem not to go after his pants because she is afraid that Mr. Radley will keep to his promise that he's "got the other barrel waitin' for the next sound he heard in that patch," Lee, 72 which frightens Scout into thinking that if Jem leaves, he won't come back.
Jem insists that he has to get his pants because he can't risk losing Atticus's respect and trust since he admires him very much. Jem shouts at Scout to shut up and then nearly chokes her when she promises that she'll wake Atticus up. He then leaves, and after Scout lies awake in terror, he eventually returns. Throughout the book, we see how Jem's and Scout's relationship transforms with their age as their two personalities begin to change. On the first day of school, Jem tells Scout that she can't play with him in front of his classmates, and when Scout protests, Jem explains that, "We'll do like we always do at home, but you'll see- school's different.
Then, things change even more. Someone — Scout assumes it's Jem — pulls the attacker off her. Scout calls for Jem but gets no answer other than heavy breathing. She heads toward the breath sounds, feeling for Jem. When she touches the man's stubble, she knows he isn't Jem. Scout works to reorient herself and finally sees a strange man carrying Jem to their front door. Aunt Alexandra calls for the doctor, and Atticus calls for the sheriff.
Scout fears that Jem is dead, but Aunt Alexandra tells her that he's only unconscious as she works to disentangle Scout from the chicken wire. With Atticus is the man who brought Jem home.
Scout has never seen him before. Sheriff Tate then announces that he found Bob Ewell dead under the tree where Scout and Jem were attacked. These two chapters comprise the novel's climax. Lee sets everything up beautifully by turning the story into a mystery of sorts, using foreshadowing to provide the reader with clues to the resolution. The foreshadowing begins when Scout says that three things of interest happened during the fall that "did not directly concern us — the Finches — but in a way they did.
He loses another job, and he tries to break into Judge Taylor's house. Ewell also makes it nearly impossible for Helen Robinson to get to work. The acts of revenge toward the judge and Helen hint that Ewell is serious about his earlier threats to get even with Atticus. Ewell is angry because as Atticus puts it, "'He thought he'd be a hero, but all he got for his pain was. Unfortunately, the community didn't believe his story. He loses a public job because of laziness, and realizes that he's been proven a liar and made to look a fool.
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