A4-Tolerance+Essay

Mayella is a symbol for showing us tolerance not for her deed of a accusing a black man but for the fact how bad did it have to be for her to jump on the first guy she saw and kiss him. Mr.Robinson wasn’t the smartest good looking or physically able of all the men in maycomb but he was the only who would pay attention to Mayella. She had so many problems like having to tolerate her abusive drunk father who would beat her, raising her mothers kids, try to see what is best for them, and the lack of privacy due to unbearable living conditions. Tom Robinson seems to understand her and feels sorry for her and is clearly better off in his life. Its shows how abused she really was both physically and emotionally, twisted her mind was becuase of her father he turned her in to his obedient slave and daughter. So you learn why she is the way she is. Then start to tolerate her more often.

Lee’s next character is Mrs. Dubose, a seemingly wretched old woman dislike by both Jem and Scout. Everyday Jem and Scout walk by her house everyday. She usually heckles them about either the way Scout dresses or about Atticus being a “nigger-lover.” Mrs. Dubose is the first person Jem has to put forth large amounts of energy to tolerate. A great example of what Jem goes through is from Star Wars; Chancellor Palpatine, the Emperor, pulls Anakin to the Dark side, in this instance tolerance, since their first encounter. And eventually corrupts him enough to question where his allegiance lies, either the Jedi Council or the evils of the Dark side. When he is faced with a life changing choice he succumbs to the emperor for his yearning to save his lover, which would be Scout, oddly enough. He doesn’t want to be a bad example for her but as he accepts having to tolerate Mrs. Dubose he relinquishes his ‘un-mature’ ways and moves on to a life that requires him to be civilized in every event of his life. Without Mrs. Dubose the purpose of the first chapters is meaningless.

In the book there is a narrator which was Scout. Scout was a very curios girl. Tolerance is something that she learns through out the story. In one part of the book she asks her father “what is a nigger-lover?” She doesn’t understand what it means. Everything in her eyes are different then an adults’. She wants to know what is right and wrong, because of the people she grows up around. Her father tells her that she cannot use that word “nigger”. He didn’t like it. Scout doesn’t understand why her dad wants to help a black person. The author uses tolerance in Scout, because Scout seems to want to understand to accept colored people along with other things in her world.