My hands were shaking when I finally met my teen idol, the singer whose poster I
always had over my bed.
Her soft voice and carefully outstretched
hand gently beckoned to the scruffy, scared
puppy on living the streets.
The bride saw a single dreary cloud in the
sky and resigned herself to a wet wedding,
her perfect day dampened.
His sandcastle — if you could even call it
that — looked like a misshapen mound of
sand that a two-year-old had thrown onto
the beach.
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Demonstrating understanding of jem's development one way to demonstrate understanding of character and theme is by writing from the perspective of a character. for this assignment, compose a short poem from the perspective of jem. your poem should detail his feelings about either a. his father, atticus or b. mrs. dubose. the poem must accurately trace the progression of jem's attitudes and beliefs, highlighting the important events and shifts in his perspective detailed above. your writing should also sound like jem, using voice and word choice that reflects the voice and word choice found in the novel. the poem can be a free poem (meaning it does not need to rhyme or follow a particular format). it should be a minimum of twenty-lines in length, have a title, and follow conventional rules of spelling, grammar, and punctuation.