Jacob's Gordon's Characterization Essay

A dynamic character is someone who changes by the end of the story, learning something that changes him or her in a permanent way. Jem is a character that changes very signifigantly by the end of To Kill A Mocking Bird. He started off as an somewhat immature little kid like his little sister Jean Louise aka scout. But as he grows older into adolesence he changes very significantly. He matures into a very smart young man.  When he is older he stops playing Jean Louise and starts doing more of his own thing. He starts siting on the chair in their living room and starts reading the news paper, and when Jean Louise ( otherwise known as Scout) tries to bother him he very politley asks for her to stop and continues to read the his paper. He also develops an a huge interest in football and basketball just like almost every other young man does.  He learns to respect others no matter what their skin color is. He feels very upset when the verdict for Tom Robinson's verdict is guilty. "It aint right, it just aint right." The way he feels just proves that he grew as a person. He, I say, deserves some major credit for what he has done to try and help out people that was different from him.

Illuminator 17-21

Hello everybody. This is Jacob. I'm here to answer some questions for my role which was the illuminator. What my job was to select three literary devices to define, present the exact quote from the book and explain to the group why the author used them. Okay, here are the questions I have to answer. Question 1, describe an important symbol from this section of the book and what it stands for. The courthouse was very symbolic but quite frankly I couldn't think of what it could stand for. Question 2, describe how the author creates a setting that I can clearly picture in my mind. Well, she has very detalied descriptions of the court house as the trial is progressing. Question 3, describe a conflict from this section of the book. The conflict I will be describing for you today is the conflict between Atticus and Mayella. They had a conflict because Atticus kept calling Mayella mamm and miss. Mayella seemed to be very offended by that so she started yelling and throwing a tantrum over it. Question 4, how does the author create emotion in this section? The author creates emotion based off of the constant fueds between Mayella and Atticus. The overall emotion of this section of the story was angry and upset. Finally, were at question 5. If one of the characters was your litereature circle, describe how he or she would act based on his or her actions in the section. I think that if Mayella was in my literature circle she would act all angry and sad because thats how she act in this section of the story.