P1+TShefflette

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Tolerance is accepting people for who they are. Tolerance plays an important part in our lives today because if you were to not like someone because they were different from you, than no one would get along and the place that we call home would not be as lovely as it is. Harper Lee introduces tolerance in “To Kill A Mockingbird” by pointing out that there are many different types of people who live in this town. There are people like Mr. Yule who think of black people as a disgrace to their town. And there are people such as Atticus who believes that everyone is equal.

In the book one of the main characters goes by the name of “Scout.” She is a very strong and tolerant little girl. She shows tolerance by growing up in a household with no mother and having only her brother Jem, her father Atticus, and her nanny Calpurnia. She spent most of her time with her brother Jem and hadn’t been growing up around someone who could teach her how to be lady like. She grew older dressing in overalls and tomboyish.The next character in this book that show’s everything but tolerance is Mrs. Dubouse, Mrs. Dubouse shows no tolerance at all but also by observing the situation you can learn about tolerance. Without tolerance you yell at and judge other people like Mrs. Dubouse does. You say something she doesn’t like and she’ll go crazy on you. My last choice of character would have to be Atticus. Atticus shows very much tolerance I think, with his children, the Robinson case, the racist people such as Mr. Yule and his friends. Atticus is helping Tom Robinson with his case and gains a lot of disrespect from the Yule’s and his friends, but even thought he gets treated poorly by them he does not do anything because no matter what he does he cannot change the way the feel or act.I definitely think tolerance is a big thing; if we didn’t have such a thing then this whole world would probably be one big riot, where everyone would hate each other. Where people wouldn’t accept you for who you are aside from who they would like u to be or how they would want you to act. Just because you’re not like them doesn’t mean that you should be treated as if you were a bad person or piece of dirt.