Sympathy

Stuck in the Webs of Sympathy Many beautiful family memories are captured in heart-warming photos of children playing in the sand at the beach, crazy uncles making silly faces at the camera, or Grandma embracing her beloved grandchildren. These memories are supposed to make the entire family laugh and recall the bright moments. Sitting on the couch recalling memories from photos with my family is not an experience like so. It is rather a tear jerking, dark recollection of events that shredded…

In the novel, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, the main character, Amir, has done many actions that do not deserve sympathy but seeing the characters growth really gives the reader a reason to feel sympathy for Amir. Hosseini creates sympathy for amir throughout the novel by Amir not having the attention he wants from his father, Baba, feeling guilty for his actions in the winter of 1975, and finding out what his life really is 30 years later. Growing up with one parent is hard enough, but…

body that it “barely disguised the workers of the arteries and muscles underneath”; watery, glowing eyes, flowing black hair, black lips, and prominent teeth.(Chapter 5). The creature is judged by his looks and I don’t feel that is right, I do feel sympathy towards the creature. One of the reasons why…

case. Capote delves deep into the lives of both Smith and Dewey, exposing the depth and complexity of who they are. By doing this, Capote reveals the true nature of these two men, and therefore plays on the reader’s emotions, creating a sense of sympathy for these key characters in his book, In Cold Blood. Perhaps the most detailed character in Capote’s book is…

He says, “I am really stupid” (Ep.4) twice in this conversation, capitalizing on his mother’s feelings of hopelessness and his inability to understand the complete situation. For the viewer to offer sympathy, just like the case with Steven Avery, he or she needs to examine his personality in conjunction with the accusations. Just like Avery, Brendan is portrayed as incapable of critical thinking and is similar child that has to be interrogated by the contrastingly intelligent police. Although…

Sympathy softened Booker’s expression. He remembered too well the first time a man had ejaculated in his mouth. He was sixteen years old and still coming to terms with his sexuality. When the first spurt of warm, salty fluid had coated his tongue, his gag reflex had kicked in and he’d instinctively jerked away. But before he could spit it out, the second, third, and fourth eruption had covered his lips in thick, creamy semen. If that wasn’t mortifying enough, the high school jock’s reaction…

human. An invaluable tool used by author to do this is sympathy. An author uses sympathy to get the reader to feel the emotions of the character, to understand the emotions. In stories filled with tough topics, such as it is in John Grisham’s Calico Joe, it is important to try to get the reader to feel sympathy because otherwise, the reader may feel detached from and uninterested in a story. As such, an author often tries to provoke sympathy for many characters, and by looking at how the author…

(p2 ph13) “What are you doing here?Why did you stow away on this EDS?”he asked.He was just showing sympathy toward her to show her that he didn’t want to do it.(p4 p10)”I’m sorry. You never know how sorry I am. It has to be that way and no human in the universe can change it.”he said.This show sympathy by stalling the time that she has to live.(p10 ph16,17,18,19,20) “You don’t have to tell them that. They will know --they’ve always known it.”he said…

I do have more sympathy for the doctor or Mr. Rank. He is the only one in the play that does not want to get or force anything. I have sympathy towards Mrs. Kristine Linde. It resonates me the way this play ends. I think this play is really interesting. This play is relevant to a modern audience because it treats the relationship problems of society. I have more sympathy for Mr. Rank because he always tries to help Nora even when her husband is present. Mr. Rank always visits the Helmers and…

In some plays an important character might be recognized as being evil by actions alone. Readers though in some cases can feel sympathy towards the “evil” character because they can see the different side of tem from the rest of society. The author of “Oedipus the King” uses dramatic irony to illustrate the audience’s sympathy towards Oedipus’s blindness to his fate. The readers of the play knew that Oedipus indeed fulfilled his fate by killing his father and marrying his mother without…