In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, Jem and Scout learn many valuable lessons about life during the course of the novel. As life goes on the children gain a great deal of experience through their own doings and those of others. Scout and Jem are six and ten years old at the beginning of the story. The story takes place over three years time. During these three years there are many things that happen to teach the children many life lessons. Scout is a tomboy who likes to settle disagreements with her fists, but over the course of the novel she begins to control her temper and use her head instead of her fists. At the beginning of the novel, Jem has a very stereotypical, masculine sense of courage. He and his sister feel proud of their father when he performs "masculine" tasks...