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Novotchin, Jade Per.1

Tolerance is the Key

Tolerance is the main topic in To Kill a Mocking Bird, Mainly because tolerance is a very important quality in a person. The author Harper Lee demonstrates tolerance in a lot of the characters and shows the story in a young girl’s eyes. The story shows plenty of controversy and shows what it was like to live in a time where the color of your skin was the only thing that mattered. To Kill a Mockingbird shows how tolerance made its way into the story and how the characters slowly realize how to treat one another, and look beyond their skin color. The author determines the theme of tolerance by showing it through characters. Harper Lee demonstrates a lot of tolerance through Scout, the youngest girl in the story. Scout was the unreliable narrator and grew up throughout the story, she saw Atticus defending a negro and had to deal with everyone being upset with her and her father for it. Scout was told it was wrong for Atticus to be the lawyer for a colored man and through the story she learns about how to care for people no matter what color, “Do all lawyers defend Negro’s Atticus?” Scout says, because she’s confused about why everyone is only mad at her father. Atticus proved in front of the court that Tom Robinson was not guilty of any of the charges and Scout realized then and there that Its important to treat others kind. Scout also makes a judgment throughout the whole story about Boo Radley because of the stories she’s heard. After she starts realizing Boo is the one giving her and Jem gifts in the tree and that Boo sewed up Jem’s pants she starts to realize that she’s making judgments on very nice people. Ms. Dubose is the oldest character in the story and is shown as the mean old lady. everytime Scout and Jem go past her house she yells at them about how their dad is a “nigger lover” and tells them to get away from her house. Ms. Dubose shows tolerance in the story because she was addicted to morphine and she tolerated the withdrawl’s and now she is passing away and the only person in To Kill a Mockingbird that cares about her is Atticus. Ms. Dubose is Atticus’s hero. Atticus shows tolerance in To Kill a Mockingbird by defending a negro named Tom Robinson. The whole town is against Atticus because of it. Atticus is also a the hero in the story because of everything he believes and defends, he believes in justice. Atticus is also a great father and when he goes to court he proves that tom Robinson is innocent. The story To Kill a Mockingbird overall shows the theme of tolerance in the characters; Scout, Ms. Dubose, and Atticus. The author Harper Lee wrote a wonderful story about tolerance that has become an epic novel over the years. The characters in the story all have a variety of personalities and have all showed in their own way the theme of the story.