Why is it important to be compassionate and tolerant adults? “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” (To Kill a Mockingbird). Tolerance is very important. Tolerance is being able to understand someone even if you agree or disagree. It’s about being able to understand no matter who they are if it’s there skin color, their religion, their race and, their culture. Tolerance is a key core for people to become adults. If people don’t have tolerance it will be harder to be with other people. They will not think about their position they won't care about what they say just because of what they look like, or what they do. Everybody has a right to their own opinion, whether it is about religion, color or race. Other’s are all raised differently with different beliefs and at times it is hard to understand and be objective to some peoples believes. People with different beliefs and tolerance make the difference in this world. They are able to make positive changes and work with others and show them different colors and beliefs and help them see the good in others. People can not judge others by their color, religion or race. Human beings all have strong beliefs in humanity and goodness and with a …show more content…
People stand their ground when we believe in something and at times don’t listen to what others are trying to say or give their reasons about their beliefs, but others also have to be tolerant and find the time to listen and understand. So much goes on in the everyday lives and people are all preoccupied with lives and problems. There are amazing people out there that have great ideas and opinions and there are lots of people that will listen and try to understand and have more compassion for what is going on around the
Compassion, Sympathy, and Tolerance are shown in many parts in the novel written by Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird. When Atticus is defending Tom Robinson, Dill knows what Tom Robinson is going through when he is getting asked in court and when Jem starts crying after Tom Robinson is founded guilty. All of them show a good example of compassion, sympathy, and tolerance in this novel.
In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows through Atticus and Jem many examples of compassion, sympathy and tolerance. Harper Lee does a great job showing how Atticus and Jem can view things from a different perspective other than what everyone else in Maycomb believes. Compassion is shown when Atticus takes Tom Robinson's case. Jem shows a lot of sympathy for Tom Robinson during his trial and after he is convicted. A lot of tolerance is shown when Bob Ewell spits in Atticus’s face and he doesn't fight back.
In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, she reveals that society enforces strong racial boundaries, and when one is only associated with another of a different race they are labelled as strange and regarded as an outsider. In the story, young Scout Finch learns life lessons from her father Atticus, a lawyer in their small town, Maycomb. Throughout the novel many people disapprove of Atticus for his job since he defends black people and for the way he raises his children to accept everyone no matter their skin color. Scout is often taunted and picked on for her dad’s profession at school and even by relatives; at Christmas time, their cousin, Francis, humiliates Scout for having “a [negro]-lover” as a dad and describes how it “[mortifies]
A fine line is drawn between whether a person is “right” or “wrong”, “innocent or guilty” solely based on one factor. When people interact in a social environment, they tend to be tense and anxious around those from another racial group. To which having a mentality of posturing an inappropriate comment or action may cause offense or discomfort to the other. Those who take part in another person’s culture will later express fewer prejudices toward members of that ethnic group. To what is considered a “black sheep” in a herd, they are often ostracized from society and are not wanted; however, some people accept differences in individuals for the good of society to the extent of achieving tolerances as seen by Atticus’ interactions with Tom Robinson in Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, along with Juror 3’s viewpoint of the jury in Rose’s 12 Angry Men, and Sergei’s dilemma in What, of this, Goldfish, Would you Wish? by Keret.
Tolerance is the ability to ability to have multiple perspectives on opinions about a topic and understand where each one is coming from. Tolerance is rare to find in people and the ones who do are truly wise and are able to understand more about people than anyone else. In the story, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout, Jem, Atticus, and Calpurnia are just few example of main characters that showed tolerance throughout the book. These characters also played very important roles in the book by contributing their insight on certain situations, whether it was Calpurnia teaching Scout about the Cunninghams and how they were less fortunate than most people, or Scout not understanding certain people but withholding talking about them. Although many citizens of Maycomb tend to be on the less educated side, many still show signs of tolerance that affected everybody around them.
What is prejudice? Prejudice is a preconceived feeling towards a person or group member based completely on their group membership. Harper Lee uses the different types of prejudice she was seeing as she grew up in the very discriminatory South to tell the readers about how people of different groups were being treated. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee isolates certain characters to convey prejudice held against people of different groups. Three characters which are isolated to show prejudice about a certain group are Scout Finch, Walter Cunningham Jr. and Tom Robinson.
names’s Tom Robinson”. Discuss the effects of racism on Maycomb citizens such as Tom and Helen Robinson,
“Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.” This quote by Mahatma Gandhi is explaining that intolerance guides us away from getting to know one another. We are restricted from understanding and learning new lengths of people's race, religion, gender, and most important personality and emotion. There is also a great amount of incorrect judgement that supports the intolerance and anger he is speaking of. Intolerance is not accepting a certain group because of false stereotypes placed on them. These accusations can be seen made on Tom Robinson, Chiko, and Frederick Douglass. These 3 people were excluded from their own society because of who they were. From the writings of To Kill a Mockingbird, Bamboo People, and the life
During the 1930’s depression, there was a great divide between black and white America. There were many communities and groups who had been exposed to the same treatment and persecution as the Negroes in To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee has used a small town setting, such as that in To Kill a Mockingbird, to illustrate America’s views on white supremacy and the inferiority of the black race. The author has illustrated view that are expressed world-wide through her characters in Maycomb county.
Many people say that racism is still a major problem in today's society, while others think that it is not. Racism is still around today and it has not been yet resolved. Since 1930, people have been treated unfairly and different than others. In many countries or states, nobody is trying to do anything to change that and make everyone respect others no matter what color skin they have, or where they came from. Even in books and magazines there are stories about people being treated differently because of what they look like.
Intolerance is the unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behavior that differ from one's own. In To Kill A Mockingbird, the society of Maycomb, Alabama is very intolerant, as is Scout in the beginning of the novel. Towards the end, however as Scout grows, she starts to view the world differently and become more accepting of people's lives that differ from hers. Scout develops as a character from an innocent, intolerant little girl to a more knowledgeable and understanding human being.
Everyone has a place in the world, to think otherwise is naïve; this world is not owned by a specific race, class or gender. And yet, in a time where the world is seemingly at our fingertips we are still finding prejudices at every corner. Often, the differences of others are perceived negatively and this causes misconceptions and assumptions. If we could strip ourselves of this negativity and lose the impulsive perceptions, then we should be able to put forth greater efforts to understanding the lives of those from backgrounds which are different than our own, in doing so acceptance towards others would likely follow.
In Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, one of the most prominent themes used in the novel is the action of intolerance and the affect it has on all people. The theme of intolerance is fully explored in the case of Tom Robinson and the underlying racism shown in the treatment of him. Intolerance is met by all three main characters, Scout, Atticus and Jem but is experience by many of the other supporting characters. There was no one kind of intolerant person; they all came from different background, which is testimony to the point of the book ‘You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of views.’ This quote shows that you have no idea why a person does what they do until you experience things from their
Decades ago, in the 1930s, people of color were not treated fairly. Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird took place in the 1930s in the fictional place of Macomb County, Alabama. It was narrated through a young girl named Scout Finch. Throughout the novel, Scout, her older brother, Jem, and their good friend Dill discover realities of society. Scout and Jem’s father, Atticus, was appointed to be the attorney of a black man. Because of the time period, the case was almost hopeless, but Atticus fought anyway. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird displays universal themes such as racial intolerance and innocence of youth.
“Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.” Inspiring words by Robert Green Ingersoll. Our culture today is very diverse. It is important to be tolerant of people that are different than us because it broadens our choice of friends, and it opens new up opportunities.