Raisin In The Sun Empathy

Empathy is one of the most important characteristics a person can have. It is essential to understanding others and their emotions. Without empathy we would never be able to help each other and we would never work together. During the course of the semester empathy has been discussed and developed. Empathy involves understanding the situation others are in. We have to step into their shoes in order to understand what they are going through and how to help them. Multiple texts discussed in the course showed us the lives of others and allowed us to step into their shoes. One of these texts is A Raisin in the Sun, which is a short story that shows us the lives of an African American family living in inner-city Chicago. Reading the text allows

It can change every day and is a very hard question to answer. We see that many characters within the literature struggled to answer this question. In Plato’s “Crito”, Socrates is faced with the dilemma of being executed or escaping to exile. In the end he comes to the conclusion to stay because he knows who he is. Socrates states “Then we ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have to suffered from him” (Plato 65). He is saying that he cannot abandon his principles even if others have abandoned theirs. By reading and analyzing this text the class learned that relying on our principles is essential to staying true to who we are. Even when it would be beneficial to change who we are it is always important to remember who we are. In the short story “A Raisin in the Sun”, one of the main characters, Walter, struggled to figure out his identity, who he was. He felt he had an implied contract with his family that he must be the provider, but he felt he was not honoring that contract. He felt that having money was the image of success and he felt that he wasn’t the man he wanted to be. His mother says that life is not about money but Walter says “No – it was always money, Mama. We just didn’t know about it” (Hansberry 73). Walter feels money will make him into the person he should be and that forces him to make a terrible decision. By reading this story we can learn that trying to change who we are is

It helped me realize who I was, what can I know, and how I should act. The first question of who am I was realized by putting my project together. We rarely take a step back and think of all the roles we play in life. Many people sometimes forget about who they really are because they never step back and put it into perspective. I also learned from watching other people’s presentations. I heard parts of who they are that are also part of who I am. Things that I never thought about when describing myself. I focused my PowerPoint mostly on roles that affect me now, such as being a college student or an employee. I neglected to put in many pieces that were roles in the past, but were part of making me who I am today. Joe talked about being part of a team and that was an aspect I never thought of. I played sports throughout high school and being part of a team shaped who I am. I was also the captain of the tennis team, so when Lucas stated that he was a captain for crew it brought back the idea that I too was a captain and that is a part of who I am. The idea of what I can know was shown through the piece of the presentation involving our ways of knowing. It made me really think about how I process information. I determined that I am a very rational person. I rarely prejudge a situation or let emotion drive a decision. Jon and Amanda both had the same way of processing information as I do.