Empathy allows me to enter the reality of the polish people by imagining myself in their position. The descriptive language used by the author helped me to understand what the people were feeling at that time. An effective example of this is just a single line, “I said nothing and sweated like a mouse”(Wazyk, 461), and just through that sentence one can feel the fear; the fear that turned a man into a mouse scared for his life. Adam Wazyk has found a way to describe the feelings of his fellow Polish people through just a couple words. Using empathy as a way to process all the imagery Wazyk provides through his detailed description of the human suffering allows me to enter their reality. Through the whole work we get a sense of awareness what
