Empathy InThe Jungle, Migrant Mother, And Harvest Gypsy

These are expressed through the author's experience in the bread shop, where she describes that the homeless man "wears a stained blanket pulled up to his chin, and a woolen hood pulled down to his gray, bushy eyebrows. As he stands, the scent of stale cigarettes and urine fills the small, overheated room." The imagery used gives the audience the impression they've experienced the situation themselves, placing them in that situation. It emphasizes the homeless peoples' position in society and the circumstances they

Authors empower our understanding of the world through compassion and empathy. Meaning to make readers share and understand the feelings of another. In “Harvest Gypsies” by John Steinbeck the author informs of two families and their tussles for survival.In the same manner, Kevin Starr in his excerpt titled “Endangered Dreams” tells of a family and their daily troubles. Both taken place during the great depression they both depict the hardships of migrant families trapped in poverty. While Dorothea Lange helped readers perceive the poor living conditions of the 1900’s through her photo, John Steinbeck helped evoke the most empathy through his descriptiveness, straightforward style, and listing of dramatic events.

have you ever noticed how authors persuade the reader into having an emotional connection with the book? In the book Farewell to Manzanar written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston talk about Jeanne's family's experience in a Japanese American internment camp. It shows how her and her family struggled in America's society during World War II. Jeanne uses ethos, pathos, and logos to show the reader how Japanese Americans

Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother is a photograph that documents a moment of distress within American history. The image works as a visual representation of suffering for those who were lucky enough not to live within the Dust Bowl region. To many it is uncertain if Lange’s image became an American Icon because of the struggle it presented or because of the eye capturing composition of it. However, with this image came forth the issue of a photos validity after photo manipulation, as Lange edited the image by removing the thumb of the mother who was a large subject. Despite the slight manipulation in Migrant Mother, the photograph still presents the situation truthfully, making the photograph function as both a work of art and a historical document.

The above passage is also an example of Steinbeck’s masterful use of imagery. Steinbeck’s vivid descriptions of the setting and the thoughts of the characters allow the reader to step into the story, as if they themselves had become a part of it. Another example of Steinbeck’s imagery occurs near the end of the novel, when the Joads are moving into a train car:

In Maya Angelou's’ excerpt, she uses descriptive imagery to shed light on what it was like to be alive in the black community at the time of this special event. Using imagery can display the audible and visual settings of a story. This allows a better understanding for the audience. Moreover, making the audience feel as if they are a part of the story. Angelou writes,“The last inch of space was filled, yet people continued to wedge themselves along the walls of the Store. Uncle Willie had turned the radio up to its last notch so that youngsters on the porch wouldn't miss a word.”

In literary texts, authors best evoke empathy in the audience by using appeals such as ethos, logos, and pathos. When a reader is given appeals they are able to better understand the world around them and how others outside of their own lives feel. Books and speeches such as To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Statement on the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. by Robert F. Kennedy are prime examples of authors evoking empathy from their readers.

In addition, Steinbeck utilizes symbolism to help reveal his message to the audience. In this chapter, the putrefying crops that resulted from the system’s agricultural mismanagement represent the landowner’s greed, and how it is responsible for not only the

Steinbeck utilizes the novel as a form of social protest by enunciating the brutal and inhumane way the wealthier class treat the migrant workers. For instance, in order to not loose any profit from the fields, the affluent bankers decide to forcefully drive the families off the fields using tractors to “bite into the house corner, crumble the wall, wrench the little houses from its foundation”(39). However, the working class does not have the opportunity to refuse this decision because of the desperate

The book Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States illustrates the fieldwork of the author Seth M. Holmes by explaining the myriad aspects of migrant workers’ lives in the U.S.—from the politics to the social environments to the physical body. By not only studying, but living, the lives of these migrant workers, Holmes brings the reader a view unseen by the vast majority and provides the opportunity for greater understanding through the intense details of his work. The voices of vastly different characters—real people—are captured and expounded on without judgment but with deep consideration for all factors that contribute to each person’s life, opinions, and knowledge. Ultimately, a picture of intersectionality is painted in the colors of migrants, mothers, fathers, children, doctors, soldiers, executives, the poor, the rich, and more.

Steinbeck uses the literary device of metaphor by narrating the Joad family's journey to California, in comparison to the other migrant families in the intercalary chapters. Throughout the novel, there are a few of these chapters that help develop themes like re-birth, community, perserverance, etc, through key symbols, to support the narrative chapters.

Empathy is a human device that allows someone to put oneself in another person’s situation. This allows them to have a greater understanding or personal connection of someone’s problem. After reading “The Ugly Tourist” by Jamaica Kincaid and “Consider the Lobster” by David Wallace, the theme of perspective, specifically empathy, is a vital aspect in both essays. Empathy plays a great role in understanding both writer’s perspective, which means to understand a certain point of view other than oneself. The sense of empathy goes far beyond sympathy, which is just feeling sorry for someone or something. However, being that empathy stretches to feeling sorry with someone or something one is capable of sensing emotions of another. In “The Ugly Tourist”, Kincaid wants her audience to know tourists that go to visit Natives frustrate her. She displays her frustration from the perspective of the natives. In addition, in “Consider the Lobster” which is directed to humans that eat and cook lobster, to understand the pain that these lobsters go through and believes we humans are cruel. Although “The Ugly Tourists” and “Consider the Lobster” essays are similar in that both incorporate the themes, empathy and perspective in their writing, they do so in different ways. Whereas, “The Ugly Tourists” uses an aggressive tone to point out the native’s struggles while in “Consider the Lobster” he uses cultural practices of humans to makes his point of how empathy or putting oneself into different

On the other hand, it triggers the mind to create new ideas, which may lead to formation of abstract or perceptible products. Of course these aims are satisfied merely by the fundamental support of fiction, the imagination. These points may be valid since empathy can solely be carried out by “imagining” the other, secondly in a world which is only consisted of truths and factual thoughts, distraction and amusement would be so hard to reach and thirdly, producing new concepts is impossible without imagining new ideas. Yet, she can not engage her oppositions about the norms and biases of the society with her arguments which lack further

When families like the Joads began on their treacherous journey to California, along with the thousands of other families, they were not socially accepted or taken care of along the way. Farmers traveling were given the derogatory nickname of “Okies”, stereotyping that they all came from Oklahoma (Schleeter). Everyone disliked Okies, especially those in California, and when they arrived they were stuck living in cardboard boxes in filthy camps (Schleeter). These squalid camps of thousands were called “Hoovervilles”, and the Joad family spent a fair amount of time in one (Marchand). Steinbeck depicted the horror these camps so fantastically, that First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt called to reform laws governing migrant camps (Schleeter). Those in poverty could only rely on one another, Ma Joad describes this beautifully in saying,” If you’re in trouble go to the poor people. They’re the only one who will help” (Steinbeck). The camps were often burned, and when the Joad’s burned, they managed to get into a government-funded, self-managed camp (Marchand). Steinbeck structured the plot of his story to move from one family, to many families, to the human experience, in order to speak for the social issues of the masses (Schleeter). He also had effect of speaking for thousands who are suffering with the same prejudices as the Joad family by speaking in third-person plural to turn

One example of literature that has created empathy within me would be Claude McKay’s poem If We Must Die. This work of art cultivated empathy within me for several reasons. It helps me understand what it felt like for African-Americans, in the past, to be treated like wild animals and hunted down. In McKay’s poem he says, “If we must die, let it not be like hogs, / Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, / While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs” (lines 1-3).