To Kill A Mockingbird

This change in Jem had come about in a matter of weeks. Mrs. Dubose was not cold in her grave —Jem had seemed grateful enough for my company when he went to read to her. Overnight, it seemed, 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 to do. After one altercation  when Jem hollered, “It’s time you started bein’ a girl and acting right!” I burst into tears and fled  to Calpurnia (Lee 131).