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Why is Jem so rude to Scout? Is it an unnatural for him to grow up this way, or normal!?!?! Is he still respectful

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Both in TKAM and On Turning Ten there is a theme of how you change while growing up. In TKAM it show this theme when Jem is growing older and starts to feel responsible for influencing Scout. "Jem had acquired an alien set of values and was trying to impose them on me: several times he went so far as to tell me what what to do." (260) Harper Lee. On Turns Ten show the feeling of this theme of growing up and how it affected him.

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I am concerned that Jem doesn't want to play with Scout anymore. Is this a sign of growing older? growing apart? Does this happen with all siblings?

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Both of these pieces of text share the common theme of growing up. Scout is excited to grow up and become part of the adult crowd. Jem is also excited to grow up but he thinks that his age makes him better than Scout. The subject of the poem is clearly not excited to grow older. He seems wise beyond his years and compares growing old with terrible diseases while TKAM referees to grow I g old as gaining matured and respect

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The theme of growing up is in both the poem and the book. In the poem the boy says that he can not express his feelings and he becomes sad because he doesn't not know how to express his feelings. In the book Jem shows his feelings by not hanging out with scout because she was young and immature and he felt like he couldn't be around her so that is how he expressed his feelings. So in both the book and the poem they both show how they express or don't express their feelings.

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Jem is growing up fast and being a role model for scout when he was brave when he looked under the bed when scout was scared that something was under her bed.

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In the novel the theme of growing up is a secondary theme and a byproduct of time passing in the story therefore you see Jem and Scout growing up, through their actions and interactions amongst themselves and others like when Atticus is talking to Scout about fighting "Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting any more; I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and the sooner I learned to hold in, the better off everybody would be."(C9 P1) On the other hand in the poem you hear the speakers opinion directly on the subject of his aging "I can lie on my bed and remember every digit"

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In the book and the poem it shows how the characters are growing up and are sad about leaving the years where you can have fun all the time and not worry about anything.

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The themes of both the poem and the novel connect through their message 

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The themes of both the poem and the novel connect through their message 

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The theme of growing up is shown in both the poem and the novel because both speak on the topic of growing up and the expectations that can come with age In the poem, the boy is sad and feels as if he can’t be as creative but more realistic which is a big change. In the novel, Jem feels as if he has to act like a gentleman, which is a big change in his life. “Atticus is a gentleman, just like me!” (Lee, 99) That quote shows that Scout feels like he should be a gentleman as he gets older, which must be hard for him because he violated being a gentleman when he destroyed those bushes. So, both show the theme of growing up, because both show that when you grow you feel as if  there are expectations of who you are, which can be hard.

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The poem shows the theme of growing up and the loss of turning a big number and how much someone’s mindset might change as they get older. People tend to mature as they grow.

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The poem connects to, "To Kill a Mockingbird" because Jem and Scout are growing up and through out the book we get to see of what they think of life. On page 57 is shows it, "Jem stayed moody and silent for a week. As Atticus had once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem's skin and walk around in it." Scout is taking Atticus's advice and being mature.

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In the poem “on turning ten”, the kid makes it seem like turning 10 is the most terrible thing in the world. It relates to Scout because she is having a really rough time and so is the kid in the poem.

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The theme of the poem connects to the novel because in the book on page 127 it says, “Jems growing up now and you are too, she said to me. We decided it would be best for you to have some feminine influence.” This is when Aunt Alexandra comes to live with them. She must grow up and like the speaker she does not want to.

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In both the poem and the novel, you can see the theme of growing up. The narrator of the poem does not want to grow up, and is sad about it. They compare growing up to sicknesses and sadness. The poem states in stanza 1, "a kind of measles of the spirit, a mumps of the psyche," In the book scout and Jem grow up throughout the story, and are influenced by those around them in how to act, and grow up. The poem connects to "To Kill a Mockingbird" because it is hard for the children to grow up, and let go of their childhood.

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Everyone grows up, it's natural. In the poem On Turning Ten by Billy Collins, it is clear to see that the poem starts, continues, and finalizes with an sullen tone about growing up. Growing up is the theme of that poem, except it has a miserable outlook on growing up. This is shown throughout the poem, but a specific sentence would be "This is the beginning of sadness, I say to myself, as I walk through the universe in my sneakers. It is time to say goodbye to my imaginary friends, time to turn the first big number." (stanza 4, sentence 24). It is severely obvious that this paragraph's purpose is to prove the sullen mood of the poem. I think that this could be the paragraph that best portrays that, if not, then the last stanza. A novel with the same theme, would be To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Scout Finch, the protagonist of the book, is going through key moments of her girlhood, each chapter has a new adventure, and you can see her begin to grow as a young girl, but gradually. Unlike the poem, though, this book has a positively realistic outlook on growing up. Yes, the poem included harsh reality, but TKAM is the exact opposite, it shows that knowing the truth, and finding reality, as a child, is much more essential to having a happy childhood.

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The theme of growing up is shown in both texts as a change from a more innocent childhood to the reality of being older. Scout and Jem go through this change when Scout leaves the sheltered world of her neighborhood and enters into school and the reality of how hurtful people can be. Both of the children go through a more negative stage in their lives where they realize the diversity between races and how their family is affected by it, "'Your father's no better than the niggers and trash he works for!'"

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The theme of the poem and novel is that growing older has less opportunities and you have to be more mature and have less fun. For example, the poem states “the whole idea makes me  “I’m coming down with something,” showing that the boy in the poem, similar to Jem, is having less fun as they get older.

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In both the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, and the poem, “On Turning Ten”, the the,e of growing up is shown. Jem, Scout, and the Narrator learn new things as they grow up, and they all become wiser. Scout learns more about her life and how to live it, and Jem is learning much of the same. In the 4th stanza, the Narrator is in the process of realizing the truth about his new life, “This is the beginning of sadness, I say to myself, as I walk through the universe in my sneakers. It is time to say goodbye to my imaginary friends, time to turn the first big number.” He learns that he can’t continue life in the old fashion that he used to live, because he’s older now, so people expect bigger things from him.

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The poem talks about loosing the childhood games and innocent play of youth. In the novel, Jem and Scout, at around the same age as the narrator of the poem, loose track of their summer time antics. They go from dares and games, to the beginnings of adult understanding. The narrator says in the poem, “It is time to say good-bye to my imaginary friends, time to turn the first big number.” For Scout and Jem, they must say goodbye to carefree summers when they come to face a trial that will force innocents out of them perhaps too early.

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I think that the poem relates to Jem and Scout growing up because Jem is beginning to understand how he is supposed to act, and why Atticus does what he does. For instance, when Jem destroyed Ms. Dubose’s flowers, Atticus convinces him to make it up to her because it is the sort of thing a gentleman would do. This shows how Jem is growing and maturing from the beginning of the book.

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Throughout the novel TKAM Jem and Scout both explore the theme of growing up . Jem mostly grows up under the influence of Atticus and also learns from Calpurnia as well. Scout has a little more influence and figures trying to teach
her how to grow up, including Aunt Alexandra. Alexandra continuously tries to teach Scout how to be a lady as she grows up, saying “ I see you could have used a little help dressing for this occasion, young lady.” This shows how Alexandra wants Scout to act differently and adapt as she grows up.

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The theme of growing up is seen in both the poem and the novel when in To Kill A Mockingbird Scout is talking to Calpurnia about how mood Jem is being and she responds with “Don’t you fret too much over Mister Jem” (pg 115). The word mister means that Jem is not a kid and now has to be treated with respect.

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The kid in the poems struggle with despair reflects scouts struggle with her emotions about be teased and belitted for her age

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In both To Kill a Mockingbird and Turning Ten the characters are growing older and the themes of the stories are very similar. In the poem Turing Ten the character dreads growing up I know this because in the poem it states, “This is the beginning of sadness, I say to myself,/ as I walk through the universe in my sneakers./ It is time to say good-bye to my imaginary friends,/ time to turn the first big number.” This shows me the character dreads growing up and in To Kill a Mockingbird Scout is sad that Jem is growing up because he is treating her differently and not hanging out with her as much.

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The theme of growing up both in the poem and the novel is present. The narrator of both these texts seem to perceive growing up as a bad thing. Scout describes Jem being different and grown up after the month with Mrs. Dubose. This makes her feel lonely and sad, so she starts hanging out with Calpurna. Scout doesn't want what happened to Jem to happen to her. The narrator in the poem also sees growing up as a gloomy subject. He says that growing up is worse than any sickness, and describes that when he falls, he bleeds instead shining.

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Connections I can draw from the theme of growing up and the events of TKaM are: As Scout and Jem start to grow up, they start to separate a bit. At the beginning of the novel, they were re-enacting stories from popular culture, whereas later in the novel Jem starts to spend more time with Dill. Scout gets left out of games and adventures more and more, and sometimes has to force her way to being involved. In the poem “Turning Ten” the author says:
“You tell me it is too early to be looking back,

but that is because you have forgotten

the perfect simplicity of being one”
These lines show how Jem and Dill have forgotten about Scout, and how they used to be “one”. They have separated over time, and no longer experience the bliss of childhood.

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The theme of To Kill a Mockingbird and the poem On Turning Ten of growing up is shown when Aunt Alexandra really wants Scout to kind of grow up and become more lady like, which relates to when the narrator in the poem is saying how it sickens him to grow up and lose all the fun and innocence of being a kid. For example, he says that the whole idea makes him feel “something worse then any stomach ache.”

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I believe the themes about growing up in the two stories are very similar. The characters start to realize the harshness of the world. In To kill a mockingbird the children are blind to most of the real aspects of  the world. "When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em." In On turning ten the child is sickened by turning ten. "The whole idea makes me feel like I am coming down with something"

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I believe the theme of the poem connects to TKAM because the theme of growing up is shown through the characters of Jem and Scout as they are finding mentors to follow and be like. Aunt Alexandra wants to be Scout’s influence so she starts to stay with her. Aunt Alexandra says “We decides it would be best for you to have some feminine influence.” This shows how others believe that Scout is not feminine enough and needs to be more feminine as she grows up.

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In both you can see the theme of growing up and how it can kind of change your perspective on the things happening in your life. In TKAM, Jem starts to mature and change but because Scout is younger and hasn’t quite gotten to that age where she starts to mature, she doesn’t completely understand this. This kind of gives her negative thoughts about growing up, so when her aunt tells her that she needs to be more ladylike and mature, she reacts negatively. The text states, “Aunt Alexandra’s vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born; furthermore, I should be a ray of sunshine in my father’s lonely life. I suggested that one could be a ray of sunshine in pants just as well, but Aunty said that one had to behave like a sunbeam, that I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. She hurt my feelings and set my teeth permanently on edge, but when I asked Atticus about it, he said there were already enough sunbeams in the family and to go on about my business, he didn’t mind me much the way I was.” This shows Aunt Alexandra saying scout needed to dress and act moremature  and ladylike made her upset. Much how in the poem, the narrator was upset about having to give up their imaginary friends.

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In both "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "On Turning Ten", the theme of growing up is shown. In "To Kill a Mockingbird", Jem and Scout realize that Atticus isn't as fun as he used to be. Page 135 states, "As we grew older, Jem and I thought it was generous to allow Atticus thirty minutes to himself after supper." This shows Jem and Scout realizing that they can't always bug their farther, because he has other things to deal with and other things to worry about.

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As Jem gets older he takes on the role of maturity but Scout is less eager to do so. In the poem the author does not look forward to turning ten and finds it sad: “this is beginning of sadness, I say to myself, as I walk through the universe in my sneakers.” Scout also finds it sad that Jem is growing up and is no longer interested in the things he used to be.

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Scout has trouble with accepting that Jem is growing up, but she also is growing up herself and dealing with all of the struggles associated with that. Part of her wants to go play with mud and hangout in the tree house, but another part of her wants to be grown up and read and help Calpurnia in the kitchen.  Another part of growing up in Scouts case is going to school. She hates school and on the first day she is yelled at for being able to read! "...she discovered I was literate and looked at me with more than a faint distaste." (Lee, 17). This explains in part how scout feels about being old and the maturest one in the class. After that day she did not want to go back to school. ~Amelia

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Scout has trouble with accepting that Jem is growing up, but she also is growing up herself and dealing with all of the struggles associated with that. Part of her wants to go play with mud and hangout in the tree house, but another part of her wants to be grown up and read and help Calpurnia in the kitchen.  Another part of growing up in Scouts case is going to school. She hates school and on the first day she is yelled at for being able to read! "...she discovered I was literate and looked at me with more than a faint distaste." (Lee, 17). This explains in part how scout feels about being old and the maturest one in the class. After that day she did not want to go back to school. ~Amelia

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While To Kill a Mockingbird and Turing Ten have many differences, thier themes are exponentially similar. For example, both are powerful coming of age stories. In Turning Ten growing up seems to be a bad thing in the narrator’s perspective. “The whole idea makes me feel like I’m coming down with something.” This quote from the poem is a great example of how coming of age is seen as a bad thing, while in To Kill a Mocking Bird it isn’t viewed as such a burden. Sometimes it is even seen as a good thing. For instance, when Scout wants to continue to the upcoming grade levels.

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The theme in both is that as you get older you are seeing new things and learning the truth about things you didn’t know before and you feel like you change in the last summary of “On Turning Ten” it says “But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees, I bleed.” This just shows that what happens in life can effect you in a different way then it did when you still saw yourself as an innocent child. In the beginning of the book “To Kill A Mockingbird” Scout is a carefree girl and all that she wants is to live happy and to have everyone happy, but as she gets older she sees that not everyone gets along and racism is one of the biggest issues.

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Both Jem from “To Kill A Mockingbird” and the narrator of “On Turning Ten” realize with experience and age respectively that we are not all filled with light. In the poem the narrator realizes that when he is cut he bleeds, not shines. And Jem, having previously though that there was no way that Atticus couldn’t win the trial because he felt certain that Tom Robinson had not commmited the crime he was accused of, realized that people will not always do what is right. “It was Jem’s turn to cry. His face was streaked with angry tears as we made our way through the cheerful crowd.”(284)The outcome of the case was not what Jem had been expecting. Reality was always there, but now that Jem and the narrator have realized it’s existence, both boys have shed the complete innocence of childhood. They have grown up.

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In both the poem “On Turning Ten” and in To Kill A Mockingbird both characters Scout and the main character both are letting go of their innocence and their childhood. For example in To Kill A Mockingbird when Scout starts to grow up and must start acticing more like a girl “I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with”(119). This shows Scout feeling what the narrator in the poem feels because she must grow up and she feels as if she has to let go of who she is just as the narrator.

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The poem views growing up as a bad thing, but growing up in To Kill A Mockingbird is not seen as a good or bad thing. It makes Jem more “responsible” because he is trying his best to make Atticus proud. Also, the court case is making him change his attitude. The
same is with Scout, but Aunt Alexandra is trying to change her as well as the court case. “‘Jen’s growing up now and you are too... We decided that it would be best for you to have some feminine influence.’” (129) In the poem, the author views growing up as loosing innocence and being “sick”.

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The theme of growing up in the poem “On Turning Ten” can be seen in the book “To Kill A Mockingbird”. One place that the theme of growing up shows up is later in the book when Jem turns 12. He starts to lose his interest in playing with scout and acts more formal and grown up. This is similar to how the narrator in the poem starts losing interest in imaginary friends, pretending to be great people such as Arabian princes, soldiers, etc., and other things. Another place that theme shows up is when the aunt tries to force scout to act more like a girl. Scout is opposed to this idea just as the narrator of the poem is opposed to the idea of growing up

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A connection between the themes of growing up and the novel is that like in the novel this person who is turning ten is losing people to connect with. In the novel, people dislike scout for her fathers actions, while the person in the poem is losing it with age.

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I think the theme in the poem "on turning ten" is growing up and in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird when Jem starts getting older he stops wanting to play the games he used to play with Scout.

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The theme of the poem On turning Ten was that growing up can be difficult and can sometimes destroy the innocents of childhood. In To kill a mockingbird it talks about the development of Scout and Jem. They are both adolescent and playful. You can see that was also what was in the narrator before he turned 10. For example in line 25 of the poem it says “it is time to say goodbye to my imaginary friends, time to turn the first big number.

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The theme of growing up in the poem is looked at as bad. The poem relates growing up to sicknesses and bad things, like once you grow older you loose you’re innocence you are older. In “to kill a mockingbird” the idea of growing up is good but starts to turn bad. As hem and scout grow older in the book they also seem to loose their innocence. However, unlike the poem, they don’t perceive as growing older as bad it just occurs during their life time. For example, a quote from the book is, “there’s his chill un,” or “Yonder some Finches.” Turning to face our accusers...” (135)

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The theme of growing up is seen in both the poem and the novel when, scout goes to school and is super excited but comes back home telling Atticus that she doesn't ever wanna go back. For the poem, the boy talks about being super happy about being a youngster before the age of ten. He soon realizes that he doesn't really have a pick of whether or not to grow up. Scout only played with Jen when they were playing the boo radley role play, and the boy from the poem talked about roleplaying  as a Arabian Knight, a soldier, and a prince. (Line 13)

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The theme of growing up is shown in the novel and the poem because Jem and Scout are starting to learn from Atticus and Calpurnia on how to act and to not judge people right away. “You never really understand a person untilyou  consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”(30). In the poem, the boy talks about how he has to get rid of his imaginary friends, and is learning how to move on in life as he gets older. The boy is sad to grow up but for Scout and Jem, growing up isn’t seen as good or bad.

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Growing up is a general theme of both the poem and the novel in the poem growing up is dreaded by the child as shown in stanza 4 "This is the beginning of sadness, I say to myself... It is time to say goodbye to my imaginary friends, time to turn the first big number". In To Kill a Mockingbird Aunt Alexandra comes to Maycomb and declares that Jem and Scout are growing up for example " 'Jem's growing up and you are too, '... it would be many years since I would be interested in clothes" Lee 127. Scout shows an immediate distaste for growing up and states that she would never be interested in boys or clothes like her aunt tells her.

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The theme of growing up is shown in both the poem and the novel because in the poem the narrator is dreading turning ten, and looks at it as a bad thing. He compares growing up to "a kind of measles of the spirit, a mumps of the psyche, a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul." In the book, Jem and Scout are not only growing up, but changing and being influenced by those around them, like Atticus and Calpurnia.

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In both the poem and the novel the theme is based on growing up. The author of the poem felt sad to grow up. He compares it to sickness. "The whole idea of it makes me feel like I'm coming down with something, something worse than any stomach ache or the headaches I get from reading in bad light." In the book, Scout and Jem are growing up and being influenced by everyone around them.

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Jem no longer wants to play with Scout and Dill, and tries to act more mature, and follow in Atticus' footsteps. Jem tries to be a gentleman, like Atticus, and Aunt Alexandra is trying to make Scout grow up and be more feminine and ladylike, even though she doesn't want to at all. An example of Jem being grown up is when he wants to stay by Atticus´ side, because he thinks he is grown up and can handle it. “...said Jem. ´It´s different with grown folks, we--´“ Jem is now looking at himself as a grown person, and superior to Scout.

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On Turning Ten and To Kill a Mockingbird both are based around the theme of growing up and gaining new ideas, but also losing the innocence of childhood. In On Turning Ten, the narrator is gaining a better understanding of reality and a new sense of maturity. He knows that when he turns 10, “it is time to say good-bye to (his) imaginary friends” (line 26). This is not a spoken rule, yet he recognizes it within himself, showing his maturity. The last stanza also emphasizes his innocence leaving him in the form of the light under his skin becoming blood. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is learning to become a “lady” from her aunt. It is a drastic change from her childhood, and she still hasn’t committed to the new lifestyle, but she is gaining new understanding of life. The court case is also taking away some of her innocence. When Scout, Jem, and Dill are at the courthouse, the Reverend keeps telling Jem to “take Miss Jean Louise home” (197). Scout claims that she understands everything Mr. Ewell is saying about Tom Robinson raping his daughter and that it is fine for her to be there, but she does not. Through the court case, she will most likely learn more about these topics and lose her innocence.

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The theme in both the novel and the poem is that in the poem the narrator says he does not feel that growing up is a good thing. Scout has had this feeling many times throughout the novel where growing up is also not in her best interest. "But now I am mostly at the window watching the late afternoon light." The quote from the poem demonstrates that he is not at all joyful about growing up.

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You can see the theme of growing up in both story's. In TKAM Jem matures a lot throughout the book. In the beginning of the book he was unmature and throughout the book he reaches being a "gentlemen". In the story the main character is sad about growing up in the poem "It is time to say goodbye to my imaginary friends, time to turn the first big number." They both have a turning point where they realize that they are growing up and need to mature. This is how you can see the similar themes of both story's.

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The theme of growing up is seen when when the author of the poem says that he looks at is old blue bike and doesn’t play with it anymore, and how is rarely goes to his tree house anymore. This poem, On Turning Tem, relates to TKAM because in the beginning of the book, Jem is seen playing in his play house and having fun, but later in the book the tree house is forgotten by both Jem and Scout. Jem was playing in his house until he was ten, then like the author of On Turning Ten, they grew tired of such things. The Tree house seems to symbolize children and how they explore the things of the world wiht happiness and curiosity, but when they come down from the tree house they only focus on things from one point of view. In shows the innocents of children and the peace within them. Innocent children do not have an opinion in the tree house, when they see things from everypoint  of view. But as you grow older you, the imagination leaves both the author of the poem and Jem and scout, and they become fixed to the mindset of the world.

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As you grow up, the world effects you. It has been shown many times that who you are as a child is not who you become as an adult. Adults influence children in many ways, as experiments in the world have shown. The Bobo doll experiment in which an adult hit and verbally assaulted a doll while children were watching, and then most of the children did the same thing. But, when children saw adults be nice to the doll, they were too. In the novel, Jem notices how Atticus is polite to Mr. Cunningham, and then he is polite to Walter Cunningham. In the Poem, the author shows how the world around him makes him afraid of what is to come. He states," It was only yesterday that I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light." When he was shielded from these truths, he was a different person. Jem and Scout are living in an imaginary world sometimes, and Boo represents reality. When they finally understand that he is a person just like them, they become more comfortable with them. They will always be somewhat afraid, but they will be more comfortable.

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The theme on growing up between turning ten and jem and scout is connected by turning a different age. In To Kill A Mocking bird, Jem reached an age where he didn’t want to play with Scout anymore in the tree house. “ why can’t she leave me alone?” (Lee 128). In the poem, the author doesn’t want to face the new age he is turning. “ this is the beginning of sadness, I say to myself” (Collins 25). This explains that he is afraid to whether the new age and doesn’t know what it will entail. This is how the poem connect to TKAM.

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The theme of growing up is seen in both the poem and TKAM, it is shown by the sadness of growing up in the poem and the distance from Jem and Scout due to age.  The distance is causing them fights " I declare to the lord you're gettin' more like a girl every day."  (pg 52),  the growing up of Jem is making him less adventurous and more mean to Scout, but Scout is still being the same girl she has always been.

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The theme of growing up is shown in both the poem and the novel when in the poem, it talks about the kids sad perspective on growing up, while in To Kill a Mockingbird, Jew is changing a lot as he grows up. In both of these texts, growing up isn’t seen in the best ways, because in the poem, the author writes, “a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul”(Collins, 7). This explains how the character sees growing up in a very negative way, like a sickness. In the novel, Lee writes, “‘Leave me alone, Scout”(120). This shows how growing up is making Jem salty, and mad. That is how both stories show a negative side of growing up.

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In both stories you can see the effects of aging on younger people. In Tkam, Jem grows older and starts to notice that as he becomes older he has to act older.  In the book, The 9 year old boy notices that as he becomes older he has to stop all of the fun things he did.  A quote to support this is “It is time to say good-bye to my imaginary friends, time to turn the first big number.”