Witness By Karen Hesse: Character Analysis

The novel, Witness, by Karen Hesse is about humility, which reveals that people will think less of themselves for the better good of others. In the story, Sara Chickering brings Lenora Sutter into her house to get out of the cold. Lenora wore no jacket, boots or hat; all Lenora has on are her worn, old school clothes. Sara Chickering brings Lenora a cup of warm broth, a warm quilt and sits Leonora in her rocking chair. Then Sara Chickering goes to Iris Weaver's restaurant and calls upon constable Johnson and Doc Flitt. In the small town in Vermont, it is shunned upon for whites to help Jews or blacks, but Sara Chickering takes it upon herself to help Lenora warm up. Typically, when someone thinks of themselves lesser it is because they are

Medical staff do it because it is a selfless act. Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less. To me, this means that no matter who the person is someone should always put them first. In Act three, Viola Pettibone’s cat gets stuck up 60 feet in a tree and won’t come down. (p.81, Hesse) She tries coaxing it to come down and even calls the Fire Department to come get her cat, but when they get to the scene and decide to call Percelle Johnson for help Percelle Johnson did not want to climb 12 feet on a ladder and shimmy 48 feet up the rest of the tree, but he takes it upon himself to help Viola Pettibone before worrying about himself. Typically, when someone is doing something for someone else it is because they are humble. When volunteers of the Salvation Army stand outside, ringing the bell and asking for change to donate, they are putting the people that rely on the Salvation Army to help them first. Those volunteers put their lives aside to raise money for people who need it. The exact definition of humble is having or showing a modest or low estimate of one’s