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My definition of tolerance is excepting things for how it is. One reason why tolerance is important today is because without tolerance relationships wouldn’t work. The author established the theme of tolerance by using scout because she doesn’t know her father is defending a black man until later in the story. Also, because she is against black people but then Atticus explains to her you never know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. Ms.Debose at the beginning is really bad to the kids by telling them that their father is a nigro lover and other mean things. One day Jem ruins the old ladies garden and Ms.Debose makes him read to her everyday for a whole month. He would go every to read to when he notice that she was really sick. When his time was up Atticus told jem to go for one more week. Ms.Dobuse was a morphine addict. That’s the reason why she was cranky.

Scout the unreliable narrator shows tolerance by judging the people she didn’t know. For example she thought Boo was a bad person. She thought he was really evil. Later on the story scout and Jem found out that Boo wasn’t a bad person. All Boo wanted was their friendship because he was very lonely. Later in the story she found out that her father was defending a black person so she had to deal with it. She no longer judged black people again.

After Jem was finished reading to the old lady later she past away. Atticus said he would always remember her as his hero. Atticus is also a character that shows tolerance. Atticus is a lawyer that is defending a black male. He doesn’t care about what other people think of him defending a black person.

One way the author supports the theme of tolerance is when scout finds out that her father is defending a black person and she has to deal with it even though she is against black people. Her father explains to her you never know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. Another way the author supports it is when Ms.Dubose says a whole bunch of mean things to the kids and makes Jem read to her for a month for destroying her plants. They found out that she was a morphine addict. Finally, Atticus has to tolerate everybody because he is defending a black person. The girl’s father spits on Atticus face but Atticus doesn’t do anything.

I think tolerance is a good thing and a bad thing because with out it people not survive in a relationship. People would judge other people without knowing them. Sometimes people would keep their feelings in and wouldn’t express themselves. People should learn when to tolerate and when to express themselves.