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Do you have tolerance? Well tolerance is when you accept someone for who they are. You learn to accept everything about them like their religion, how they dress, and what they look like. In To Kill a Mockingbird we see how some people learn about tolerance and how others show it.

In the book, we see how others are tolerant towards Scout. Scout is a whiny girl, who isn’t tolerant at all. She can’t except people for who they are. She always has something to say about them. Even if it is good or bad, nice or mean. Everybody mostly shows tolerance towards her. Jem shows tolerance towards her by playing with her even if she says it is to scary. He just tells her to hush, but still goes along playing with her. Atticus shows tolerance towards her by not angry when she would get into fights and yell at Cal, but he would simply talk to her calmly. Also he would seldomly yell but talk rationally with her.

Mrs. Dubose only shows tolerance towards Jem. She shows tolerance to jem by letting come and read to her when he massacred her flowers. But he read to her for a month straight. Scout and Jem see Mrs. Dubose as a old mean lady. They should have learned to tolerate her before she died. Atticus tolerated Mrs. Dubose a lot. He was even polite to her after she would say rude things to Jem and Scout about him. Scout and Jem find out why Mrs. Dubose is so rude after she dies. The reason why is because she is a morphine addict. And she was trying to kick her habit. So when Jem would read to her it would take her mind off it for a while. Atticus she was his hero because she was courageous. That is how Mrs. Dubose is tolerant.

Atticus is the most tolerant person in the book! I think he is the most tolerant because he was a lawyer and he had to deal with some very rude people. He treated everybody with the same amount of respect it didn’t matter who they were. He was also tolerant towards Bob Ewell. He was tolerant towards him because everytime Bob Ewell would treat him with no respect. He would call Atticus bad names, spit on him and tell him he was going to lose the Robinson case. But Atticus would still treat him civil. He would just walk away from the situation.

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird most of the characters show great tolerance. Atticus, Tom, Jem and Calpurnia all show great tolerance towards many different ways. A lot of people show tolerance to Scout and Mrs. Dubose because they either don’t understand or they just do out of respect. Tolerance is accepting someone for who they are and not wanting to change one thing about them.