Hedgehog In The Fog Analysis

We talk a lot about empathy at Moz, and that’s because the value of empathy cannot be overstated — in marketing or in life. Empathy is a super power. Dr. Brené Brown describes that super power as “feeling with people,” and it creates a spark of connection for the person being empathized with. That spark can be fanned into the burning passion

What first comes to mind when hearing the term, “empathy”? Some would see empathy as only feeling one’s pain, or sorrow, while others would mistake the word “empathy” for “sympathy”. But empathy is beyond sympathy. Empathy, according to the Oxford Dictionary, is defined as “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another”. In other words, empathy is feeling and understanding another’s emotions, such as love, happiness, fear, sadness, or anger. But why is empathy important and crucial to everyday lives? Empathy is displayed as a recurring theme in the novel, “To Kill A Mockingbird.” In the novel, author Harper Lee chooses the story to be told from a 6-year old’s perspective, who goes by the name “Scout”. Scout is thrown into a world full of quick judgement, racial stereotypes, and inequality. Empathy is not only important to ourselves and others, but it is vital to society.

To begin, empathy is shown through the trial. The crime being tried was rape. A white man named Bob Ewell was accusing a black man named Tom Robinson of raping his daughter. One person who showed empathy during the trial was Link Deas. Tom Robinson worked for Link Deas. Link knew that Tom Robinson was a good man and would never actually rape a woman. He interrupted the court because he wanted to state his opinion on the case.

Poet, Walt Whitman, once said, “I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.” Whether you're trying to understand a wounded person or the next president, learning to become the person for a moment; applying empathy lets us for just a moment, see through their eyes, feel through their skin, and fight their battles. Likewise in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the author exclaims to the characters the effects of empathy. The novel takes place in Alabama, in a small boring town of Maycomb. Scout Finch, a young girl, has an older brother, and a father with distinctive yet wise morals.

We all experience empathy at some point in our lives, it feels nice to know that there is someone that you can call on and that you know they can help you get through any hardship. Whether that be family, friends, or anyone that you are in close relations with. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird and Daryl Cameron’s article Empathy Is Actually a Choice, they show great examples of empathy and why people show each other compassion and feel this emotion that believe it or not most people don’t experience. This essay is to show how these articles are related and a good example of how people should act in today’s society.

After dark shows how empathy is something that doesn’t come easily while Kitchen shows that empathy can pull somebody back from the brink. These both relate to the fact that empathy is a powerful tool and is the reason we as a human species have survived for so long. If we didn’t have empathy many struggling nations would fall, children would be held to the same level as adults and we as human beings wouldn’t care about each other at all. But too much empathy would be a good thing either, Some nations could go under trying desperately to support other nations while children could never learn as they are treated like they can do no wrong and we as a people would be so distraught whenever something bad happened to our fellow man we would never be able to get over any of it. Si in the end empathy is like coffee, it’s a good thing we have it and most people need it to survive but if everybody had too much of it we would never get anything

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

“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.” (Mohsin Hamid) The 1937 novel by John Steinbeck, tells the story of George and Lennie who work on a farm with Slim, Carlson, Whit, Candy, Curley, Crooks and the boss, as well as Curley’s wife. Lennie has a mental disability and love to pet small, soft things, he means no harm and is very forgetful, but when he does something horrible, on accident, George has no other option but to do something Lennie would have never thought George would’ve done. Through the characters Crooks, Curley's wife, and Lennie, John Steinbeck says empathy is needed to cure cruelty.

As we have all come to learn empathy is a broad and even controversial topic; having empathy may not always mean making good decisions. That is what each of the three pieces: “The Dark Side of Empathy” by Paul Bloom, “What Makes Us Moral” by Jeffrey Klugger, and “Why Mental Pictures Can Sway Your Moral Judgement” by Shankar Vedantam examine (2015, 2007, 2012). All three sources are effective in conveying their message about morals and empathy, however varying rhetoric methods are employed by each piece.

Empathy is a vital ingredient of supportive relationships. A lot of scholars argued that empathy furnishes health care professionals with the capacity to improve patient’s health ,thus it must be taught to make them more responsive to patient’s health [ Journal article: Developing Empathy in Nursing students:A cohort longhitudinal study page 1]

West who was approximately 32 years old came to FAP seeking services for her 13 years old daughter. Ms. West reported that her daughter has not been going to school and was recently arrested for shop lifting. Ms. West reported that she recently left the child’s father for infidelity. Ms. West started crying and reported that her husband was the love of her life and she does not know how to move on or function without him. Ms. West stated that she believe that her husband absent from the home is having a negative impact on her daughter and she does not know what to do. Listening and seeing the pain, Ms. West was going through was distressing to me because I was taken back to a time I was experiencing a similar situation as she was. At that moment I sincerely understand and felt what Ms. West was going through. I was taken back to that time when my life was also turn upside down. Trying to stay focus and help this client was difficult because I was caught up with my own emotions. At one time I felt a tear drop falling from my face however I was able to maintain my composure and provided Ms. West with the services she needed for herself and her daughter. I found myself going above and beyond to find the most appropriate services for the family. I realized my personal feelings impacted how I work with this family as I find myself making excuses for the child when she was being disrespectful to Ms.

Professor Paul Bloom states he is against empathy. He believes it is wrongfully used in our society and should not be used in certain situations. He still thinks it is important sometimes, but should not be primarily used as a result of anger, depression or retaliation. He believes compassion is the solution to empathy. In the long run, Bloom states that empathy will fail or burnout in a person. Hannah the extremely empathic person will eventually burnout according to Bloom. The use of empathy everyday as a core moral code will eventually be overwhelming and burned out and used up. The person will change direction and use empathy less in their lifetime. This essay will explore Paul Bloms opinion of empathy in his article, “Against

Empathy (“Walking in another’s shoes”): What does this novel teach about the importance of empathy?

As the poem opens, the speaker describes the boy and her initial reactions to him. The speaker uses concrete images like “his bicep in the twilight,” “his stack / of [newspapers],” and “[the speaker’s] shoe / stubbing at the shafts of grass” to set the scene of her first viewing of the paperboy (3-5). These images allow for readers to get a feeling of familiarity with the subject of

Page 3 displays the style of a child’s reading book calls forth the reader’s memory of the innocence of childhood, an innocence that should be guarded carefully. Soon, however, we find that the seemingly universal description of a happy family is actually a description of only the lucky few families.