First of all, there is no Mr.Dubose. It's Mrs.Dubose and she punishes Jem for ruining her white flowers.
Mr. Dubose punishes Jem for ruining her flowers as an act of retribution, as she views them as precious and symbolic of her struggle with addiction to morphine. Additionally, she wants to teach Jem a lesson about respecting others' property and the consequences of his actions.
She punishes him by making him read to her.
they enter mrs dubose garden jem actually steps all over it due to mrs dubose talking bad about atticus, and also mr ewells although its not really technically a garden all he has is a red geranium in a jar
Ms. Dubose frightened Jem by shouting insults and threats at him and his sister, Scout, whenever they passed by her house. She would say horrific things about their father, Atticus, which upset Jem deeply.
Jem attacks Mrs. Dubose's camellias in the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird." He destroys the flowers after Mrs. Dubose insults his father, Atticus. Jem later learns the reason behind Mrs. Dubose's behavior and the significance of his actions.
Jem took Scout's baton and chopped the tops of all Mrs. Dubose's camellia bushes. Then he snapped Scout's baton in half.
Jem committed to reading to Mrs. Dubose every day for a month as a way to atone for destroying her camellia bushes. This task was challenging as Mrs. Dubose was ill and had a difficult temperament, but Jem persevered to fulfill his commitment.
Jem destroyed all of Mrs. dubose's camellias with Scout's baton because he was mad at her for making fun of Atticus. Jem reads to Mrs. Dubose because Atticus punishes him by telling him to go to Mrs. Dubose and apologize for what he has done. Mrs. Dubose tells him in order to make up the mess he created, he has to read to her everyday for 5 weeks.
He cut the tops of her flowers off
Jem is upset with Mrs. Dubose's racist comments towards his father, so he retaliates by destroying her flowers as an act of rebellion. Jem is trying to stand up for his family and assert his own sense of justice in response to Mrs. Dubose's bigotry.
In the box that Mrs. Dubose sent to Jem, there was a single white camellia flower with a note attached. The note expressed Mrs. Dubose's apology and appreciation for Jem reading to her.
Jem Finch was around 13 years old when Mrs. Dubose died in the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird."
because mrs. dubose said that atticus "lawed for n word"