Sympathy, an emotional response we have in reaction when a fellow living being is in distress or of need, a response that makes use alive. Something that makes us human. Emotional responses influence our actions, influences our decision making, and influences how we see people. The media knows this. SPCA does this with their sad dog commercials. They try to make you sympathize with their cause so that you can decide to join it and or donate to it. In literature,
One of the reasons Lennie is a sympathetic character is that heś a mentally handicapped man. Throughout the book we see that Lennie often acts like a child and as such heś treated like an idiot. George himself calls him dumb. Having a child like understanding of the world, he doesn't
One of the reasons Lennie is a sympathetic character is that heś a mentally handicapped man. Throughout the book we see that Lennie often acts like a child and as such heś treated like an idiot. George himself calls him dumb. Having a child like understanding of the world, he doesn't