The Rose that Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur helped me understand more about tolerance because in most of the poems he’s talked about his struggles. In his poem “Life Through My Eyes” Tupac wrote “[l]ife through my bloodshot eyes/ would scare a square 2 death/ poverty, murder, violence” (11), and that is him talking about the things he’s seen and been through. Later in the poem he wrote “[b]ut mark my words when I say/ my heart will not exist/ unless my destiny comes through/ and puts an end 2 all of this” (Shakur 11) because, to me, those lines are him looking forward in life and tolerating all the poverty, murder and violence he witnesses because he knows that his destiny will come and put an end to all of that. Also, in the poem “Genesis
