Pity

is why he is defending Tom Robinson. Another is example is when atticus is giving his closing argument. “I have nothing but pity in my heart for the chief witness for the state, but my pity does not extend so far as to her putting a man’s life at stake, which she has done an effect to get rid of her own guilt”(271) Atticus is showing that he feels a sense of empathy or pity for Mayella, but he loses it when she puts his life at risk. Punishment for rape in Alabama is death. Atticus knows the…

Why do so many people rely on drugs to forget about all their problems that they face? In Denis Johnson’s short story Emergency the topic is highly discussed, as how the characters use drugs in order to not think about their normal everyday life and how they try to escape reality by getting high off the pills from their work. In doing so, Johnson presents a conflict of man vs. himself, in which he tries to forget about his problems and act as if everything is okay when in reality it is not.…

Jonathan Harker is the character in which the reader feels immense pity for. Jonathan Harker had traveled to Transylvania to finish a real estate deal with Dracula and even though he felt strange about the whole encounter and Dracula himself, Jonathan blew it off because of his duty to his job. Then Jonathan becomes prisoner, once he escapes he gets extremely ill possibly because of the shock. But, the reason why the reader easily feels pity for Jonathan is because he didn’t do anything to cause…

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for” - Judge Taylor Racism. Prejudice. Words that many shy away from. Though they’re prevalent everywhere and everyday, subtle or loudly voiced, it’s a sore subject in public. Nowadays, the common knowledge is that racism is a horrible and unacceptable thing. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, however, it was seen as a social standard that minorities were below whites. To say that Atticus’s loss was…

Flashbacks are used to cause the audience to feel pity for the character Edward Scissorhands and well as frightened for Edward. An example of this is in one of the flashbacks used, when Edward’s inventor gave Edward a pair of hands the inventor made. After letting Edward touch the hands, the inventor suddenly…

recognizes what is happening after it 's far too late. His father is too late in recognition as well. Then, there is the catharsis driven by the fear of modern genocide and terrible events plaguing you because of ignorance of the evil of this world. The pity stems from the death of Bruno. The question becomes is life’s greatest illusion a blessing or a…

Compassion fatigue is a far reaching concept typically associated with the negative effects that a care provider may experience following intense and often stressful patient care events. Recognition of and a clear understanding of the concept is vital for communities, organizations and individuals in order to provide a fortified approach to intervention, treatment and the provisions of evidence based practices. Gaining recognition for the past two decades, researchers have worked to further…

I wrote an essay, What Methods Would Effectively Prevent the Spread of Ebola?, that identified ways to stop the spread of the Ebola Virus. Every month there is a new, highly talked about topic of interest. These past few months, this topic was Ebola. It became one of the most talked about topics in Fall 2014 because it was brought to United States from Africa, where it has been an ongoing epidemic. Many citizens feared for their lives about what was to come. When talking about Ebola it is easy…

The reader feels a sense of sympathy, or even empathy if they’ve struggled with poverty, toward Flavio and his family. Hearing about a child, starving and exhausted, instantly makes the reader want to help Flavio, take away his pain. Pity overwhelms the reader as they hear of Flavio, and how he’s “miserably thin, naked but for filthy denim shorts,” instantly tugging at the heartstrings of any reader (Parks 1). If the reader has ever been in a state of sheer helplessness, they can’t…

Throughout My Antonia, Antonia undergoes many hardships, yet she perseveres. She never loses the “fire of life” as Jim calls it, and refuses to accept the problems in her life. Never asking for help or pity, Antonia faces her challenges head on. Her eventual success at the end of the book is a direct result of this. If we take success to mean happiness, it is clear that the way Antonia solves her problems has a direct relationship to her contentment and the end of the book. Antonia’s success…