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Tolerance Essay

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Kevin Monroy Per.4 11/28/05

Tolerance Essay

Tolerance to me is being able to accept someone no matter what race or religion they are from. Tolerance is not used very much because of all the racism there is in our world. The US government still shows some racisms but not much. Still the racism is very little to this day. The book “To Kill a Mocking Bird” is a book about tolerance and the racism people show against African Americans.

In the book “To Kill a Mocking Bird” the character Scout doesn’t show tolerance in the beginning of the book. She later watches a court hearing and watches her father    defending an African American and sees the people reaction to her father. At the end of the book the child and her brother is attacked by the accuser’s father and he kills himself by falling on his knife.

The character Mrs. Dubose shows no tolerance against anyone but she likes it when you compliment her on her garden and her looks. The Character Jem messes up her garden and as his punishment he has to tell her stories. After he is done telling her the stories, a month later, he learns that she is addicted to morphine and is dying of cancer. She is trying to kick the habit so she dies clean.

The lawyer named Atticus shows tolerance to everyone. Even the people that hate him he shows tolerance. The case he took for the African American named Thomas Robinson. He was accused of raping a woman and Atticus defended him. Most of the people in the town didn’t like him for helping him. At the end Atticus loses the case even though the cause of the injuries caused was obviously caused by her father he still is found guilty. Atticus still shows sympathy to the people that threaten to hurt him.

All these character show tolerance in their way. People should learn from these character that they should respect people that they don’t like. Tolerance is a good way to show someone that you care about them. Finally, tolerance is a thing that everyone should learn to show to people