Pity

His integrity, friendly, loyal, and gallant provides people a deep pity and sympathy. Tom is with a strong sense of the Christian idea. Religious ideas give him an enormous influence. Due to Tom’s sacrifice, other slaves can survive and have a better future in a country without racism. It is similar to The Crucible. In…

A little stuffed brown bear named Patches is the first image that comes to mind when I reflect on my life. The bear had tags attached to a blue jean pocket with the words happy, sad, excited, anxious, hopeful, etc. I was expected to change the emotions of the bear to match how I felt each day, but this quickly became one my biggest stressors. I didn’t want to display to the world when I felt pessimistic and bitter because it showed signs of fragility and weakness. One day I lost the tag that…

Mortality in Homer’s Iliad Mortality is one of the main qualities that set humans apart from the gods in the Iliad. The human characters of the Iliad are limited by their transience. However, Homer depicts how mortality can be morbidly powerful enough to move the reader and even the gods. The poet masterfully describes death and injuries throughout the play. Homer also shows the values the Greeks and Trojans shared on burial rites and the treatment of bodies. The poet not only focuses on…

She felt “gratitude affection, and pity for [the] countrymen,” as they passed her by. Students can interpret that the people were ready to fight for their freedom. The citizens were grateful that these men were willing to risk their lives, but pity that only a few of them will survive. The people of the town wept and cried to hear that their loved one has died in battle. It was heard that…

done an honest day’s work, they go to school anytime they want, hunt and trap out of game season, and Bob spends his relief check on green whiskey they are not respected nor trusted by the Maycomb community. The only thing that the Ewells get is pity, and pity is most certainly not power. As long as the Ewells continued to not make an effort to improve their social status, it shows that they are just fine with the way they are living. Seeing that the folk of Maycomb are embarrassed by the way…

In the following article from 2002, author Melissa Greene, uses a past experience of a tragic death in her high school to draw conclusions about the Layla House Orphanage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Greene uses a European/American stereotype style of writing to express her views on what will be the future for children in orphanages that have tested positive for the HIV/AIDS virus. Throughout the article Greene, reflects on how most children who have a positive HIV/AID result will not be adopted…

tragedy must be in the form of action, not of narrative and must have incidents arousing pity and fear. Therefore, every tragedy must have six key parts to it: plot, character, thought, diction, spectacle, and music. The most important of these parts is plot. The first and most important feature of tragedy is plot. Plot is also known as the…

sentence of Perry and Dick, to give a view into the nature of American violence to people who enjoy crime cases. Truman Capote appeals to the shock and sympathy of the reader through the use of flashbacks and a critical tone in order for them to feel pity for the killers, especially Perry. Through the use of flashbacks that author allow for the reader to get to know more about Perry and his childhood. He describes “It was not long afterward my mother put me…

death. In scene 3, Haemon tells his father, Creon, "And I have heard them, muttering and whispering. They say no woman has ever, so unreasonably, died so shameful a death for a generous act." It is obvious that everyone in Thebes except Creon feels pity for Antigone. Creon, however, does not earn empathy from others except for the chorus, who always has the same opinion as Creon. Some might agree with Creon's actions, but the entire city is against his opinion, and that makes Antigone a tragic…

In the Puritan society, it consist of being strict in religious discipline. They believed that God has the power for everything. They are very uncompromising when it came to their religion and beliefs. Puritans honored God above all, and a Puritan’s priority is to serve God first. Puritans would not do what they believe was good, but what was good in God’s sight. Puritans believe that God is the decision maker for every action they make. To understand the Puritan society, you must first…