Examples Of Empathy And Relatablity In Conflicts

Noah R. Morris Mr. Williams Hon English ll 22 Feb 2024 Empathy and Relatablity in Conflicts “Fifty degrees below zero meant 80 degrees of frost. The facts told him that it was cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to consider his weaknesses as a creature affected by temperature.” (Jack London 65). A man fights the cold, harsh winter of the Yukon with his dog in an attempt to reach other men at a camp further down the trail. Thus, a prime example of a naturalistic conflict included the attempt to make a story realistic and relatable to the reader. The realism movement of the 19th century was the act by the authors creating a more relatable and everyday setting for the reader. His works include The Adventures of Huckleberry

However, he had to give up his college future to come back and tend to his psycho father, and then his sickly mother. Wharton most likely included this conflict to illustrate how Ethan had gotten into his position and to create more empathy in the reader. In the realism movement era, more people were poor and lacked proper freedom of money. Later in the book, Ethan is halted from continuing on his dream by his utmost lack of finances, “Farm and mill were mortgaged to the limit of their value, and even if she found a purchaser- in itself an unlikely chance- it was doubtful if she could clear a thousand dollars on the sale” (Wharton 8). Many people in that period were either poor farmers or poor city slickers who had been denied their dreams by a lack of ability to do so monetarily. Therefore, Wharton’s inclusion of an economic issue halting Ethan from carrying out what his heart truly desired was a way to make the book more relatable to a reader. Making a book more relatable to a person enhances the effect imagery and figurative language have on a person’s outlook on a book. Physical limitations also played a major role in the conflict in Ethan

Edwin Arlington Robinson was a late 19th-century to early 20th-century poet, writing works such as Richard Cory, Luke Havergal, and Minervy Cheevy. Richard Cory, a work of poetry, describes the sentiment of an incredibly rich man in a town of poor. Luke Havergal, another work of poetry, illustrated the troubles a man had with the convections of love and suicide. Miniver Cheevy, yet another work of poetry, pictures the confusion a man has about the time he was born and what he could have been if things had been different. Robinson includes different naturalistic conflicts inside his poetry to develop a more empathetic story: Economic, Environmental, and Hereditary conflicts. Economic conflicts are when a person has issues with how much money he has. In the case of Richard Cory, he had too much money; “And he was rich—yes, richer than a king— And admirably schooled in every grace: In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place” (Robinson 3). Cory has so much wealth and knowledge that he makes others envious of his place in society, and this forces him to be an