Tolerance and acceptation

In the Freedom Writers Diary, the word “tolerance” is often used by the writers. In my opinion, “tolerance” is one of the most important key word in this book. At first, the students regarded other classmate as opponents or enemies. However Ms. Gruwell gave them the opportunities to know another persons backgrounds. For example, it was the “Peanut Game”.

I realize that a peanut is still peanut even if the shell is different…“Don’t judge a peanut by its shell, judge it by what’s inside of it,” made perfect sense to me. As long as I know that I am a human being., I don’t need to worry about what other people say. In the end, we all are the same! (Diary17 p38)

This sentence means that the students recognized that people should not judge another person and should accept another person’s backgrounds. In fact the students get to accept and respect another person in this book. This is the tolerance. People can be tolerant by accepting another person.

In my experience I often judge a person by looking only outside. Especially, when I meet a person first time, we don’t have the way of judging except looks. Sometimes we assume that the person is bad or I don’t want to be familiar with the person. Then we should remember the “peanut Game”. By knowing another person’s inside, we can be tolerance because in the end, we all are the same!