Jem and His Immature Behavior - Faraes Wubshet

Jem and Atticus I would assume have a lot more talking to do. Atticus uses a lawyer’s golden rule “Don’t ask a question you don’t already know the answer to. This is shown in chapter five. They had a idea to send a letter to Boo Radley using a fishing pole to his front door. Dill was supposed to surveillance the area, but didn’t do a good job. He finally rang the bell at the last moment. Atticus sees what their doing, and uses this trick on Jem. He asks Jem if he was messing with Boo Radley, giving him a way out, however he tries to lie, and midway he learns he fell for one of the oldest tricks in the book. Atticus told them to stop playing the game telling Jem doesn’t he want to be a lawyer. Once Atticus is far enough he yells out I use to want be a lawyer, but I’m not so sure showing disrespect.

I think Atticus did the right thing as a dad giving his son a way out even though he failed, and I think what Jem has been doing this entire chapter in lack of a better term has been dumb. However I don’t put all the blame on Jem. As a kid I would believe everyone has fell for this trick once or a lot( in my case). My story that relates to this, is that once I forgot to use soap while I was taking a shower. My mom asked if I used soap, I said yes knowing I didn’t, and she pulled out the soap from the back of her hand. She was really mad at me, but rationally explained what I did, and I shouldn’t lie like that again. That really thought my lesson, because I also got grounded. That is one of many stories that happened to me, but In my defence I was younger than ten at that time.