“On the Sidewalk Bleeding” is a short story created by Evan Hunter. The story creates sympathy for the main character. The main character of the short story is 16-year-old Andy. Andy is on the sidewalk bleeding, waiting for someone to walk by and help him. As the story goes on citizens, walk by debating on whether or not to help Andy or not. In the end Laura is emotional over the fact that her boyfriend is dead. Evan shows in passages, sympathy through personification, word choice and repetition. Throughout the story the author uses sympathy to grab the reader’s attention. One way the author showed sympathy was by using personification, to connect with his audience. An example in the story is, “His voice had deserted him,” (Paragraph 3, Line
