Empathy In Salt To The Sea

Imagine having to leave everything you’ve ever known behind. Having to walk away from the life you’ve worked so desperately hard to create for yourself. Well that is just what happened to the characters from Salt to the Sea. Thousands of innocent people forced to flee their homes to avoid death from war. These characters left everything behind and didn’t look back. And along their way they had a few bumps in the road, but they managed to do something inspiring. These people, who had nothing more that the clothes on their back and a cart filled of what little was left of their belongings, had great amounts of empathy. Instead of turning their backs on other innocent citizens, despite many others, they continued to give what little they had …show more content…
While resting they are sitting around a fire trying to keep warmth when they heard the crunching of the snow. Shortly after Florian and Emilia enter the barn. One of the people in the barn began to shout at them for them to leave and later on went on to say that they should leave them behind. Joana did something unexpected. She invited them in and offered them the warmth of their fire and her medical assistance. If Joana would not have stood up for them the other group members wouldn’t have had any empathy and forced them to leave. Joana helped Florian and Emilia when they were barely getting by on their own.
Empathy is hard to come by nowadays. There are students in our own school struggling each day. Kids are bullying and making fun of other students without thinking twice. They just treat people how they want before they even know what that kid may actually be going through. Not just students in our school but people all over the world have no empathy for others. Empathy is such an important concept for everyday life and it is something our society needs to work on. If we just had empathy it would make such a difference. It would stop a lot of violence and possibly even prevent things like wars from