Mahatama Gandhi once said, “Anger and Intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.” Intolerance is treating anybody unfairly and discriminating them because of their beliefs, they are different, or their identity. Currently, our society is filled with intolerance everywhere you turn; this could be on televisions or movies, in a novel, or even in a school. In general, intolerance can mean almost anything to different people. You’re probably wondering how this could be happening in the 21st century where technology, intelligence and the quality of living should be stronger and safer than ever before. How can one person be sure that one nice school day a person will not be judged just because of their cover, but the content of their character?
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Two examples in Of Mice and Men is George and Lennie struggling from job to job, trying to get enough money for their own place and ranch workers, who are poor like George and Lennie, being treated disrespectfully. Of Mice and Men shows how unfair and intolerant the world is to George and Lennie as they have to keep struggling to find jobs, and George is so desperate that he has to restraint Lennie in order to find a job to support their lives and just meet their minimum living standards. To prove this, George says to Lennie, “That ranch we're goin' to is right down there about a quarter mile. We're gonna go in an' see the boss. Now, look—I'll give him the work tickets, but you ain't gonna say a word. You jus' stand there and don't say nothing. If he finds out what a crazy bastard you are, we won't get no job, but if he sees ya work before he hears ya talk, we're set.” Furthermore, Of Mice and Men shows us that Curley uses the favor that he is rich and the boss’s son to bully and tells other ranch workers what to do even if they clearly don’t want to, and they can’t argue with him unless they want to risk losing their jobs and go back to struggling, and becoming poor. To prove this bossiness towards ranch workers, during the opening of the book, Curley says, “…”In summary, through powerful examples of disrespect towards different …show more content…
Two incidents where this happened in The Butler was in the beginning of the movie where a white man forced black people to do labor work and harvest crops, and when the Southern Christian Leadership Conference sat in a segregated restaurant. The Butler shows us that white people just think, since they have more power than black people, that’s ok to bully, use them as slaves and disrespect them. One example in The Butler that explains this is, at the beginning, when the farm’s owner, a white man, sexually assaults Cecil’s wife and kills his father, which is a form of political intolerance because it proves that the white man takes advantage that he is the farm’s owner to bully and disrespect others, specifically black people, just because they have very little power and control (Daniels). Furthermore, The Butler shows us that white people can do basically anything, doesn’t matter how cruel it is, they want to black people and they get no punishment as a result, which is an aspect of political intolerance as they dishonor the blacks just because they have less power in politics and are very vulnerable. To prove this cruelty, when Louis entered Fisk University, he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an African-American organization, and the group went to the diners and sat peacefully while people shout obscenities at them,
Two examples in Of Mice and Men is George and Lennie struggling from job to job, trying to get enough money for their own place and ranch workers, who are poor like George and Lennie, being treated disrespectfully. Of Mice and Men shows how unfair and intolerant the world is to George and Lennie as they have to keep struggling to find jobs, and George is so desperate that he has to restraint Lennie in order to find a job to support their lives and just meet their minimum living standards. To prove this, George says to Lennie, “That ranch we're goin' to is right down there about a quarter mile. We're gonna go in an' see the boss. Now, look—I'll give him the work tickets, but you ain't gonna say a word. You jus' stand there and don't say nothing. If he finds out what a crazy bastard you are, we won't get no job, but if he sees ya work before he hears ya talk, we're set.” Furthermore, Of Mice and Men shows us that Curley uses the favor that he is rich and the boss’s son to bully and tells other ranch workers what to do even if they clearly don’t want to, and they can’t argue with him unless they want to risk losing their jobs and go back to struggling, and becoming poor. To prove this bossiness towards ranch workers, during the opening of the book, Curley says, “…”In summary, through powerful examples of disrespect towards different …show more content…
Two incidents where this happened in The Butler was in the beginning of the movie where a white man forced black people to do labor work and harvest crops, and when the Southern Christian Leadership Conference sat in a segregated restaurant. The Butler shows us that white people just think, since they have more power than black people, that’s ok to bully, use them as slaves and disrespect them. One example in The Butler that explains this is, at the beginning, when the farm’s owner, a white man, sexually assaults Cecil’s wife and kills his father, which is a form of political intolerance because it proves that the white man takes advantage that he is the farm’s owner to bully and disrespect others, specifically black people, just because they have very little power and control (Daniels). Furthermore, The Butler shows us that white people can do basically anything, doesn’t matter how cruel it is, they want to black people and they get no punishment as a result, which is an aspect of political intolerance as they dishonor the blacks just because they have less power in politics and are very vulnerable. To prove this cruelty, when Louis entered Fisk University, he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an African-American organization, and the group went to the diners and sat peacefully while people shout obscenities at them,