A character whom I admire and can relate to is Tea Cake from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston. After Janie experiences years of suffering, Tea Cake enters her broken life to begin the healing process. Although Tea Cake's madness caused by rabies tragically forces Janie to kill him to save her life, its significance is that Tea Cake's love transformed her enough to make her learn to love and value her own life. Like me, I believe that Tea Cake wanted to love and show kindness to someone who needed healing without reserve. It was an imperfect journey, but with sincerity and genuine care, Tea Cake closed the wounds in Janie's life.
On the first page of chapter one, the quote sets the tone for the entire book. Janie Crawford, the protagonist, experiences three different marriages with three men of different personalities. The quote represents some aspect of each of her marriage. It also represented Janie in some way as being a beauty for many men.
The author John Steinbeck best evokes empathy and compassion in an audience with his story The Harvest Gypsies more than other authors. The authors Kevin Starr and James Weldon Johnson have evoked empathy in the audience with their stories but were not as strong. The stories that will be compared to The Harvest Gypsies are titled Lift Every Voice and Sing by Kevin Starr and Endangered Dreams by James Weldon Johnson. Comparing these stories with John Steinbeck’s story will prove how much empathy there is in the story.
Telling her life as a cripple she began to accept herself from the help of her family and the look of reality. Mairs is still a mother and is able to be there for her family. Her identity affects her condition because she lack the ability to do things she use to do with her family, and friends. This disease help her connect with to two other woman with the same disease. She sees them as ideal woman instead of woman “who lives on the glossy pages of dozens of magazines, seems to be between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five; her hair has body” (Mairs, 1993, p.45).
There is always those “ok” books and those “good” books, and even those “great” books but The Running Dream is a book so special you will never forget it.. From the first day I opened the first page of the book, I was intrigued and curious. Me and Jessica shared many common characteristics which lead to a special connection between me and Jessica. Having this I continued to read the book to see what made her special. Jessica was just like me, athletic, happy, living the life that every kid our age would.
In this Quote the author explains how she feels about the story she
Murphy lacks mobility and sensation in his lower body other than the feeling of occasional muscle spasms, and has limited movement in his upper body below the neck including his arms. Murphy writes the story as it recounts events throughout his entire life, from childhood onwards. He was sixty-two when he wrote the novel. The story provides Murphy’s anthropological commentary on the life of a person with a disability and how society views and treats people with disabilities (Murphy, 1990). Murphy’s performance patterns both support and inhibit his occupational engagement.
My favorite quote from chapter being the first, “Mother, I bring sad news: your son was killed facing the enemy.” The mother said, “He is my son.” “Your other son is alive and unhurt,” said the messenger. “He fled from the enemy.” The mother said, “He is not my son.”
Sometimes pain can put you down, but it can also make you strong. The story, Gathering Blue, by Lois Lowry is a fictional novel that takes place in the future in a dysfunctional village where imperfections are unaccepted. Kira, a young disabled orphan girl, is taken in by the Council Edifice to work on the Singer’s robe for her beautiful threading skills after her mother died. While working on her new job, Kira learns lots of new skills, and is having a pleasant time until her friend, Matt, surprises her by bringing her father, whom she presumed dead, from another peaceful village, finding herself pressured with the tough decision of whether she should leave for the other village where disabilities are accepted or to stay where she is with
Not only can we learn from the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird, but also in the poem Sympathy because we can relate to what the author is talking about. Through these examples, it is clear that authors can best create empathy in their readers by developing strong characters that go through problems that the reader can relate to or learn
It is delineated by natural inclination that people sympathize with others who undergo an unfortunate circumstance or event. However, this type of behavior is dependent on how one uses prior knowledge to judge whether someone is worthy of sympathy. The idea that people tend to draw conclusions based on other people’s decisions and character remains as one of the many underlying themes in literature. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, Amir’s character is considered worthy of sympathy by his redeeming actions towards the end of the novel, his good intentions toward Baba, and his ability to empathize with others.
One compelling example that supports this message is the character of Sarah, a young Jewish woman who endures profound loss and suffering. According to Mann, "Sarah exemplifies acts of kindness, compassion, and selflessness, illuminating the capacity of the human heart to remain compassionate and hopeful even in the darkest times" (85). Through Sarah's journey, readers witness the transformative power of empathy and the profound impact of small acts of love and solidarity, underscoring the resilience and strength of the human
The novel Flowers for Algernon written by Daniel Keyes effectively explores the complex human experiences of disability and the impact that it has on individuals and society through its three major themes; Self-realisation , Alienation and loneliness and treatment of the mentally disabled by society. Through these themes this response will highlight the difficulties experienced by people with disabilities and the people in their lives. The first theme in Flowers for Algernon is self-realisation. Charlie’s new found knowledge has allowed him to have the ability to voice his needs and wants for understanding, acceptance, and love.
The children opened the door to see a pale faced shell of a human being. “Oh, Margot!” one of the children cried. With no sign of anything wrong Margot began to run, leaving the children behind. Beyond tears, she ran and ran and ran… faster than anyone ever thought she could run.
Empathy is one of the things that bonds us as human beings; being able to feel for somebody else’s problems when they clearly do not affect us at all is why valuing literature is so important.
