JEM WAS in Classic Quotes

1  Atticus put out his hand and Jem was silent.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11

2  Jem was standing beside Atticus, groggy and tousled.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8

3  Jem was holding his ears, shaking his head from side to side.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 7

4  Jem was facing me when he looked up, and I saw him go stark white.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 7

5  Jem was standing in a corner of the room, looking like the traitor he was.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 14

6  Jem was merely going to put the note on the end of a fishing pole and stick it through the shutters.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

7  She had been with us ever since Jem was born, and I had felt her tyrannical presence as long as I could remember.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

8  Jem was awfully nice about it: for once he didn't remind me that people nearly nine years old didn't do things like that.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

9  Jem was not one to dwell on past defeats: it seemed the only message he got from Atticus was insight into the art of cross examination.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 6

10  Jem was the product of their first year of marriage; four years later I was born, and two years later our mother died from a sudden heart attack.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

11  We were accustomed to prompt, if not always cheerful acquiescence to Atticus's instructions, but from the way he stood Jem was not thinking of budging.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 15

12  Jem held the bottom wire; Dill and I rolled through and were halfway to the shelter of the schoolyard's solitary oak when we sensed that Jem was not with us.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 6

13  Until it happened I did not realize that Jem was offended by my contradicting him on Hot Steams, and that he was patiently awaiting an opportunity to reward me.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

14  She boarded across the street one door down from us in Miss Maudie Atkinson's upstairs front room, and when Miss Maudie introduced us to her, Jem was in a haze for days.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

15  One afternoon a month later Jem was ploughing his way through Sir Walter Scout, as Jem called him, and Mrs. Dubose was correcting him at every turn, when there was a knock on the door.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11

16  Jem, educated on a half-Decimal half-Duncecap basis, seemed to function effectively alone or in a group, but Jem was a poor example: no tutorial system devised by man could have stopped him from getting at books.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

17  When we slowed to a walk at the edge of the schoolyard, Jem was careful to explain that during school hours I was not to bother him, I was not to approach him with requests to enact a chapter of Tarzan and the Ant Men, to embarrass him with references to his private life, or tag along behind him at recess and noon.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2