Sympathy

Why is the death penalty still around? Capital punishment is the legal killing of an individual as a consequence of an unlawful act they commit. The death penalty has had an increased resentment but has not been abolished largely due to the belief that it is a deterrent to violent crime. There are a myriad of reasons why this punishment is looked down upon in society mainly structured on the argument that it is ineffective and paradoxical in the way it serves justice. The death penalty is…

class well off members of society, Gaskell skillfully disguises her novel as a romance story without ultimately sacrificing the need to describe the dire conditions of the working class. As such, Gaskell states that, “[she] had always felt a deep sympathy with the care-worn men, who looked as if doomed to struggle through their lives in strange alternations between work and want and that her desires for the novel is simply to give utterance to the agony of the working class” (Gaskell 3). Thus,…

The texts “The Test” by Angelica Gibbs and “After You, My Dear Alphonse” by Shirley Jackson construct characters to evoke sympathy from readers for the African-Americans who were victims of racial prejudice during 1940’s America. Both stories use an African-American protagonist, who is treated as the ‘inferior’ in the white dominant society to represent victims of racial inequality. Marian in “The Test” is a competent and educated woman who was wrongfully failed in a driving test after enduring…

caused his death. Goodman then dismisses all notions of sympathy by stating that neither his family or friends were surprised with the news. Goodman revisits this beginning in line thirty-two with her description of Phil’s relationship with his family. Beginning with his wife, Helen, who had “given up trying to compete for with his work years ago, when the children were still young.” With this, Goodman further downplays any lingering sympathy toward Phil while simultaneously flooding the reader…

He is in awe by the humans and therefore wants to be a part of them but soon realizes they will not accept him. Gardner states,”…holding conversation with my only friend and comfort this world allows, my shadow” (8). This gives a reader a sense of sympathy due to the fact that he is lonely and cannot fit in with the humans. The isolation and pain that Grendel experiences forms a connection with the reader due to the fact that most humans tend to go through the same events. In the epic poem,…

someone who was put in a tragic situation, someone “unintentionally” involved in something sinful, etc, Dante feels sorry for them. Virgil, Dante 's guide, plays a big part in showing what (the author) Dante was trying to say- sinners don 't deserve sympathy. Sympathizing with sinners is discouraged throughout The Inferno and causes negative consequences for Dante the entirety of the poem. Before Dante tries to get his message through to the reader, he first describes/lays out the different…

ability to listen and remember everything became his strongest advantage. Another example is Emil Jay Freireich, the doctor who developed a treatment for childhood leukemia. Jay had a short temper and agony because of his rough childhood, so he had no sympathy for his patients. He ended up using medical methods that were unconventional and dangerous, but this allowed him to develop a successful…

maintain the slavery. There were reasons other than slavery that led to the civil war, some of them include social, political, and economical differences. The publication in 1852 of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin aroused wide northern sympathy for slaves. The book describes, what it was like to be a slave in the south. The book was an instant seller and convinced the northern people that slavery should…

through community initiatives. As I researched on Aboriginal peoples in Canada, there was so much I did not know. Aboriginal people are just as Canadian as I am, yet my knowledge surrounding them is minimal. Without awareness, there is no sympathy and with no sympathy there is no widespread…

Injected with Sympathy Gabor Maté essay “Embraced by the needle” is an enlightening viewpoint on the relationship of lack of nurture during the developmental stages of childhood, and how the effects correlate with addiction. Maté is a doctor in downtown Vancouver, this being one of Canada’s largest drug areas. He is exposed to large number of people with addiction and mental illness. In his essay he uses these experiences and personal knowledge to create a believable idea on where addictions…