Influences can be good or bad. In to Kill a MockingBird, written by Harper Lee, it is the same way for Scout and Jem Finch . There are multiple influences that affect them in some way. Some are very indirect but the influences are still there. The people that help shape Jem and Scout are Atticus, Bob Ewell, and Tom Robinson. They play major roles on how the children react. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the townspeople of Maycomb county help shape the kind of people Jem and Scout Finch will become as can be see in the book. Tom Robinson shaped the kids indirectly in who they are and the message that was sorta there was to no judge people simply because they are different than themselves. One thing that …show more content…
The second instance was when he took the Tom Robinson case just to make his kids respect him and for them to know not to back down and quit on something and a quote for this is “ you might hear some ugly talk about me at school, but do one thing for me if you will; you just hold your head high and keep the fists down”(lee 101). and it shows that he knows that he is gonna get crap about the case but he has to do it for himself and his kids to respect him. And one more thing is at the end of the story when Bob Ewell died he thought it was Jem and he wanted Jem to go through the court system so the town wouldn’t think he got out of it cuse atticus is a lawyer and he want the kids to face up to things but a quote to kinda show what is being said is “ Jem's not quite thirteen, no, he’s already thirteen, i can’t remember, anyway it’ll come before the county court”(lee 365). So as seen in the novel to kill a mockingbird the townspeople of maycomb county help shape the kind of people Jem and Scout Finch will become through their experiences in the book.
Now everything that has been said it really shows some dynamic events in the book that shows how Jem and Scout grow up and see the world for what it is not for what they thought it to be. They have see so