Courageous Jem in To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill A mockingbird explores a number of themes, such as education, heroism and peculiarly growing up. In fact, it is accounted a coming-of-age novel as it shows the reaping in Jem and Scout as the book progresses, while they scene difficulties and experiences that lead them to become much responsible. In the novel, Jem especially exemplifies the theme of courage, and as he matures, how his possess acquaintance of courage changes.\nAt the beginning of the book, Jem mostly sees courage as physical courage, and In all his life, [had] never declined a dare. Hence, because of this in sayection of courage which in, he accepts dills dare to go equalise the Radley house, even though he was scared by the idea of it and shucks Radley. In a separate incident, when Jem wanted to overhaul a note to Boo Radley, he got his pants caught on the Radley places fence. Because he did not want to take down Atticus by allow him find out that he was teasing Boo Radley, he went back to get his pants although he knew that it was dangerous. He knew that he might get duck soup by Nathan Radley and be hurt or worse, but his courage and determination not to let down Atticus triumphed over his business of injury. However, this type of courage is l maven(prenominal) physical courage and in fact is not righteous courage. Although he was able to flood out his fears, what he did was dishonest and wrong. Ideally, he should have owned up and faced the music, which would be chastely courageous. Since he did not come out to be guilty rough the wrong that he did, he probably did not consider the morals of what he did actually much.\nHowever, as the book progresses, his perception of courage seems to change to one more of moral courage. He demonstrates this in several incidents, start-off of all when Dill ran by from home. Although Scout is shocked that her pal would break the remaining compute of [their] childhood, Jem goes ahead to tell on Dill as he knows that it is not virtuously right to make Dills mother w...