While Arthur walks past a homeless man near a trash can, he remembers his past struggles. He leaves a 10 dollar bill near the man and says,” Don’t worry. Things change.” This particular action is sadly uncommon in today’s society. To Kill A MockingBird by Harper Lee and Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane demonstrates compassion comes from those who understand others.
Firstly, deep sympathetic actions have been displayed in To Kill a Mockingbird, To begin, as Atticus left the courtroom when John Taylor declared Tom Robinson guilty, Reverend Sykes said,” MIss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passin’”(283). Everybody stood up in honor for Atticus’ compassion for him to defend a discriminated black man. Atticus, and a handful of others in Maycomb …show more content…
To begin, when Mark was about to stab himself his mother told him,” I would miss you more than anyone else. I too would want to die if you were to die. You’re the only hope I have. I love you very much.” (169). Mark’s mother understood the pain Mark felt in the school. She wanted to emphasise how brutal on her if Mark committed suicide. Moving on, when Mark was about to leave Mr, Ngwenya’s home, Mr. Ngwenya stated,” So you see, you don’t need only a gun to fight apartheid. There are many roads that lead to Rome. Think about using your talents in the struggle” (269). Mr. Ngwenya understood Mark’s belief that violence will give freedom to his people may be true, but Mr. Ngwenya saw that Mark was already fighting, in his own way. That by being smarter and smarter, that he’ll find a way to help defeat the cruelty of racism. Mr. Ngwenya saw how far Mark would go just to be treated equally. Finally, after Mark was forced to say loudly that his grandmother is a gardener of a white family’s garden, his teacher said,” What’s shameful about working in white people’s gardens? My grandmother too worked there when I was going to school...You should be thankful she’s working there, otherwise you wouldn’t be getting all these books” (173). Mark’s teacher understood Mark’s supposed ”shame“ and said that it doesn’t matter where you work, at least you receive something of value. In the end, many examples of true compassion are shown in Kaffir Boy.
These examples assist the true meaning of the word “compassion.” To become a compassionate person, you must not only be compassionate in the mind, but also in the heart. People change. Some for the worse, some for the
Firstly, deep sympathetic actions have been displayed in To Kill a Mockingbird, To begin, as Atticus left the courtroom when John Taylor declared Tom Robinson guilty, Reverend Sykes said,” MIss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passin’”(283). Everybody stood up in honor for Atticus’ compassion for him to defend a discriminated black man. Atticus, and a handful of others in Maycomb …show more content…
To begin, when Mark was about to stab himself his mother told him,” I would miss you more than anyone else. I too would want to die if you were to die. You’re the only hope I have. I love you very much.” (169). Mark’s mother understood the pain Mark felt in the school. She wanted to emphasise how brutal on her if Mark committed suicide. Moving on, when Mark was about to leave Mr, Ngwenya’s home, Mr. Ngwenya stated,” So you see, you don’t need only a gun to fight apartheid. There are many roads that lead to Rome. Think about using your talents in the struggle” (269). Mr. Ngwenya understood Mark’s belief that violence will give freedom to his people may be true, but Mr. Ngwenya saw that Mark was already fighting, in his own way. That by being smarter and smarter, that he’ll find a way to help defeat the cruelty of racism. Mr. Ngwenya saw how far Mark would go just to be treated equally. Finally, after Mark was forced to say loudly that his grandmother is a gardener of a white family’s garden, his teacher said,” What’s shameful about working in white people’s gardens? My grandmother too worked there when I was going to school...You should be thankful she’s working there, otherwise you wouldn’t be getting all these books” (173). Mark’s teacher understood Mark’s supposed ”shame“ and said that it doesn’t matter where you work, at least you receive something of value. In the end, many examples of true compassion are shown in Kaffir Boy.
These examples assist the true meaning of the word “compassion.” To become a compassionate person, you must not only be compassionate in the mind, but also in the heart. People change. Some for the worse, some for the