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Stuart Little Promotes Tolerance Of Difference
2(c) Prove or disprove the following statements by finding appropriate evidence from Stuart Little
Stuart Little is a film that promotes tolerance of difference.
Evidence may be a quotation (spoken), it may entail a discussion of the narrative events or strategies of presentation, or something else that you feel is applicable. In films, for example, voices and accents can be used as evidence, as can costumes and choices of particular actors who are famous for other roles.

Make sure you give enough contextual information about when episodes or speeches occur in Stuart Little.

The film Stuart Little (1999) embraces and promotes tolerance of difference.
In order to achieve this goal the film highlights difference in many and varied forms. From the issue of a birth child/family to an adopted child/family, a mouse to a cat, a house cat to an alley cat, a cat to a dog, a mouse to a rat, a mouse to a human, pets and family, the rich and the poor, winning and losing and lets not forget the big and the small. There would also seem to be some irony in Nathan Lane (from the film “Mousehunt”) being the voice over for Snowbell.

Initially the film opens with only Mr and Mrs Little accepting the differences of adopting a mouse rather than a child. Their son George and cat Snowbell are horrified at the
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Later in the scene Snowbell says “He’s not just a mouse, he’s family” showing his reluctant tolerance towards Stuart. Soon after in the same scene Stuart acknowledges Snowbells ambivalent by announcing to the alley cats “Is that what you think, you have to look alike to be family. You don’t have to look alike, you don’t even have to like each other, look at Snowbell, he hates me”. This scene culminates in mutual tolerance of many differences when Snowbell and Stuart rescue each other from the alley cats and Stuart rides bareback home on

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