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In the story “To Kill a Mockingbird”, focuses a lot on tolerance. Tolerance is accepting someone for who they are. Tolerance is extremely important now days, because there are many different types of people living here. If people are not tolerant, it could cause separation between others and there would be many problems on earth. In mine and in others view, Scout, Mrs.Dubose, and the knife are examples of the theme tolerance.

In this story, Scout is an unreliable narrator. Scout was still a little girl and didn’t understand grownups problems. Scout would always take things too far serious. When Atticus was defending a black man that was not guilty, Scout would ask him so many questions, like when she said, “Atticus, do you defend niggers?” Some kids might’ve not accepted her for who she is, like Mrs.Dubose didn’t. Mrs.Dubose wouldn’t like how she would dress. She thought that a girl shouldn’t dress that way.

Mrs. Dubose is an extremely ambiguous person. Mrs. Dubose would always tell Atticus’s kids that they were ugly and that they should dress proper. Mrs. Dubose would always think that Scout and Jem would misbehave all the time, one time Mrs. Dubose had said to Scout, “Come here you ugly little girl, look at me when I’m talking to you!” Scout had just been passing by her house and minding her business.

The knife in the story is important as well. It was the one that Jem had found in the tree hole. With that knife Boo, the person Jem and Scout were afraid of, had stabbed his dad on the leg. Jem and Scout or anyone in Maycomb County had never seen Boo before, so Jem and Scout just thought that he was a bad person. I suppose that the knife is a theme of tolerance, because it is something that a person used that was judged by others. Boo wasn’t accepted for who he was. Even though people wouldn’t see him.

This book has many things you could learn from and it makes you think a lot. We were more focused on tolerance in this book, so it made us focus more. Scout, Mrs. Dubose and the knife were important people in the story, as well as other characters, but we chose these, because they were the best ones to use the theme of tolerance.