Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. I can connect to this lesson when I see upsetting news on TV and I try to understand them and have sympathy for those people.Though the Socs hide their feelings until the “rumble”, they all have some sort of sympathy for the greasers and people that they have harmed. After reading the note Johnny left him, Ponyboy understands why Johnny wants teenagers to stay gold and that the children’s lives were worth his own. He decides to write a story about his life to inform other kids to not lash their anger at the world, but to see the beauty in
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. I can connect to this lesson when I see upsetting news on TV and I try to understand them and have sympathy for those people.Though the Socs hide their feelings until the “rumble”, they all have some sort of sympathy for the greasers and people that they have harmed. After reading the note Johnny left him, Ponyboy understands why Johnny wants teenagers to stay gold and that the children’s lives were worth his own. He decides to write a story about his life to inform other kids to not lash their anger at the world, but to see the beauty in