Sympathy

Sympathy is something i feel for people who get treated terrible becuase of their skin color.To this day racism is a thing and we see it everyday black kids getting shot by white police officers because they look suspicious walking down the street with a hoodie on.No real reason for this. Of mice and men portrays how a black man living on a farm full of white guys is treated.But thats not the main point its about Lennie and George, two guys who travel together get into a huge mess and their is…

treatment towards others.In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, it can be shown that if a culture shows a lack of sympathy towards another when colliding, then the society will crumble and fall apart. This is also shown through the Nazi control of Germany in World War II, and the Nigerian Civil War during the 1960’s. Achebe’s novel clearly shows the devastation when one shows no sympathy through the Christian missionaries arrival in the village of Umuofia. When the missionaries first…

“Sympathy” was written by Paul Laurence Dunbar, an African-American poet. Dunbar was born on June 27, 1872 in Dayton, Ohio to Joshua and Matilda Dunbar (Potw.org) Due to his financial situation, he was not able to attend college, but he published his first collection of poetry called Oak and Ivy in 1893 which included “Sympathy” (Poets.org). He has also published other collections such as Majors and Minors, Lyrics of a Lowley Life, Folks from Dixie, which are only some of his literary works…

Sympathy can be related to different types of opinions and other matters to society. Everybody has a different types of opinion or matter. Crooks is a sympathetic character because he's different than the others. They treat him different because of his race. “Crooks had retired into terrible protective dignity of the negro.”(80).. Crooks was named by his crooked back by a kick of a horse. His character was used as an image of discrimination in the south. “ She turned to him and…

Introduction According to Immanuel Kant, any action a moral agent commits out of sympathy or a subjective desire has no moral value, in turn, any action a moral agent commits out of duty or obedience has a moral value. Even when a subjective desire motivates an action to achieve a positive outcome, it is still considered morally worthless. This paper will discuss the motivations and incentives behind actions committed by moral agents. It will also cover the differences between a subjectively or…

act like a normal human being and cannot distinguish right from wrong. His innocence combined with his mental limitations make us feel sorry for Lennie, and Steinbeck uses our sympathy for Lennie to emphasize the tragic way in which society treats people like Lennie. One of the ways in which Steinbeck arouses our sympathy for Lennie is that, he makes Lennie seem like a victim. In other words, the awful decisions he makes are not really his fault. For example, he did not want to fight Curley;…

Dicken’s Sympathy in A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities, written by Charles Dickens, follows the French Revolution against the oppression of the French aristocracy in the 1700’s. By reading the novel, the reader can sense the obvious sympathy that Dickens displays for both the French revolutionaries and the French aristocrats in his writing. Sympathy for the revolutionaries is shown through Dicken’s emphasis of the ghastly poverty, pestilence, and oppression that the citizens of France,…

The poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar “Sympathy” is an glorious gateway toward a man’s mind during the time of the oppressed. Where they were free, but not free at the same time. Whether he was a literary writer, poet, or an activist, his poems spoke out against the tyrannizing race and brought hope to the intimidated.As an African American in the late 1800’s Dunbar faced many obstacles, starting with racisim. He was forced into many jobs that gave him time to work on his poems. His hardships gave…

To feel sympathy for someone is to feel as if you can relate and connect with this person on an emotional level. Sympathy is a powerful feeling, and it can change people’s views of how they see the cruelest people. People usually feel sympathy for someone when they understand what a person is experiencing in their life. In the book, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the main character, Okonkwo, has his life flipped upside down and fall to pieces when he is exiled out of his village for seven…

Having sympathy for others is a quality that is greatly valued. Being kind and caring is important in society because everyone has their own feelings. Having knowledge on how to treat one another can change our perception of others. In the book Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck shows the greatest amount of humanity because of the way he treats Jim, cares about the impact of his actions, and understands the feelings of others. Huckleberry Finn sees Jim as just another…