Tolerance In Glee And The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

The theme of tolerance is a very important role in today's society. It is something I genuinely think everyone should have, or at least should try to have. Tolerance means to “have the ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.” In other words it means to have the willingness to support something you don’t necessarily agree with. Glee and The Boy in The Striped Pajamas have a lot of hidden meanings and ways of showing tolerance. Tolerance is shown and proven in many ways in both the reading and the show. A couple core examples of showing of showing tolerance in Glee is how the people in the Glee Club tolerated anyone who would talk trash about them and call them names. An instance in The Boy in The Striped Pajamas where people show tolerance is when all the Jews tolerate the cruelty they receive from the Nazis, they tolerated the torture for eleven long torturous years.

Finn Christopher is a character that is the prime example of having tolerance. Finn was the the quarterback and the captain of the football team, Titans. When Finn got into the Glee Club everyone in the football team made fun of him and called him names for doing so. Finn being the heroic character that he was, he tolerated all the negativity and just looked in the bright side. Quin told Finn that people were calling gay because he was in the club, but he didn’t pay mind to it at all, instead he said, “We’ll all be losers