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Tolerance

In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” there were many conflicts throughout the book that were in some way involved with tolerance. The definition of tolerance is the capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others. Tolerance to me means that even if u don’t like the way that some one is you have to put with it because not every one is the same or thinks the same. Today tolerance is important all over the world because every one is different and has different beliefs and religion. The author of this book teaches us tolerance tolerance by using many characters in the book.

In the book there’s a girl named scout and she is are narrator. We can’t really trust what she tells us about what’s happening in the book because she is small and she does not know what is really happening. In the beginning of the book she is not tolerant of Mrs. Dubose because she is a grumpy old lady who is raises and mean to every body. Thought the novel Atticus tells scout to be more tolerant and she does learns to be tolerant of people other people who ever that person might be.

Mrs. Dubose is an old woman who lives near to the Finch family. She is raises, mean and very abusive. She says that jem should be sent to reform school, and that Scout should stop wearing overalls and start acting like a lady. Even though she is all those things Atticus thinks of her like his hero. He thinks that of her because even though she has cancer and she is hurting she does not take pills to relieve her of the pain. That shows that she is very tolerant and that’s why he thinks that of her.

Atticus is the father of scout and jem. He lives with them by him self since his wife died. He is also the town's most respected lawyer. Atticus gives a lot of advice to his kids. He tells them that they cannot judge people until they "climb into their skin and walk around in it". He is the most tolerant character in this novel. Even though people are being mean to him for defending a black man. He also does not do anything to her when a guy spits at him in front of his son jem.

This novel shows some people being tolerant but not all of them. It’s just like in real life not every one tolerates others beliefs and religion. This is not right because not every one is the same. People should start to tolerate others because if they don’t many things can happen. First people would start fighting and eventually people would start killing each other.