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The theme of tolerance is used by the author in this novel. In another words, what is tolerance? Tolerance is allowing sympathy to practice any religion, belief, or culture. Tolerance is important today because in the world there is a lot of different kind of people that immigrate to many different parts of the world and these people have different culture and beliefs and they might practice another religion but because of tolerance people can have different way of doing something. Have you ever ask your self what would happen if there was no tolerance in the world? I have and I think there would be many conflicts between people. For example, people would criticize other people for how they do things different than them and then a fight would start because of that. In conclusion, I think tolerance should be something that has to be used all the time.

The author establishes the theme of tolerance using scout as unreliable narrator. Scout is an unreliable narrator because she is just a little kid and she is about six years old, which means she has a different point of view, sees everything different and doesn’t understand everithing from adults and young adults. An example would be; when Atticus asks Scout “Do you know what a compromise means?” and she says “Bending the law”, and Atticus says “No, a compromise is an agreement reached by mutual concessions”. In the quote you can see that she doesn’t understand that’s why she is an unreliable narrator.

Another character that the author uses to establish the theme of tolerance is Mrs. Dubose. Mrs. Dubose is a sick old lady who appears to be mean with Jem. That’s the time when Jem throws Mrs. Dubose’s garden and Mrs. Dubose instead tells him to clean up the garden and “She wants me to read her out loud for two hours for a month” Jem said to Atticus. In this quote we see that Mrs. Dubose doesn’t punish Jem very badly and uses tolerance with Jem.

The author also uses the theme of tolerance with Boo Radley. The author establishes the theme of tolerance with Boo Radley by Boo tolerating Jem for getting into his backyard instead when Jem goes back to find his pants he had left stuck in the fence he found them folded and sewed. In conclusion that’s how the author uses the theme of tolerance in this novel.