In the essay “On Compassion” written by Barbara Lazear Ascher, demonstrates multiple examples to express compassion to other individuals. Throughout the essay, Barbara Ascher helps the reader understand the complexity of learning to be compassionate. Compassion, “it must be learned and it is learned by having adversity” (Ascher, Barbara P48). By using this as the foundation of her thesis, she gives multiple instances of individual’s giving up something that belonged to them. This means that compassion is in art of itself. In the first scene, a mother gives a poor man a dollar. The second scene beholds a poor, elderly man receiving free bread and a hot cup of coffee from a bakery owner. As individuals continue to read through this essay, they
