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In The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga our protagonist struggles in his journey to adulthood. Born to a rickshaw puller who ends up dying of tuberculosis due to government corruption, Balram sets his sights to become somebody better than his father–– someone who wears the uniform–– as he’s a smart person and an entrepreneur. On his journey, he is confronted with many difficult decisions which help him discover the kind of person that he is; while also learning how corrupt the upper class is and how that has to do with the government. In the end he succeeds and goes from a rooster in the Rooster Coop, to somebody who 's broken out and made it–– out of the darkness, into the light. However, this doesn
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Throughout the entire novel, Balram does not exhibit intellectual empathy because he is too concerned with his own self-interest to notice the needs of the others around him. Intellectual empathy is the ability to see the world through the eyes of others in an effort t to better understand them. The novel demonstrates that in order to become successful, one must ignore the needs of others; and Balram’s willingness to neglect and ignore others and their viewpoints allows him to do just …show more content…
Balram attributes this to the corruption in the government, which allows it’s government facility to not function, causing his father’s death. His father’s death pains him but to all the others in his family, treated as a almost normal occurrence. To avoid any further of empathy, Balram hides behind euphemisms to describe acts that would require a genuine connection to be worthwhile. Having been hurt before he doesn’t want to be hurt again, which influences his opinions; and even the description of his life in India when he compares his life to the darkness and what he aspires to be––the light––is a euphemism based on how connected to others he must be. In the darkness, Balram’s family must all work together to survive––something that requires trust; which has been absent Balram’s entire life. The government is corrupt, the police have been bribed, hospitals don’t help the people and the schools don’t teach anything all because of the light. The light is corrupting the darkness (how ironic) and as a result, the world Balram is part of is corrupt, solely because of those who rule over it. Those that live in the light don’t allow all those that live in the darkness to rise up and become better. Balram never trusts his master: constantly believing that he would be replaced. To be able to see the world from a different perspective, you need to understand them; and this requires
I think the main idea the narrators is trying to emphasize is the theme of opposition between the chaotic world and the human need for community with a series of opposing images, especially darkness and light. The narrator repeatedly associates light with the desire to clear or give form to the needs and passions, which arise out of inner darkness. He also opposes light as an idea of order to darkness in the world, the chaos that adults endure, but of which they normally cannot speak to children.
The term self-control, tends to be associated with behavior and emotions. Most would think of controlling behavior caused by emotion. They think of punching the wall because of anger, or not wanting to cry in public. In chapter 8 of the book “The Social Animal” by David Brooks. Brooks confronts misconceptions in the way people view self-control. Specifically, Brooks argues that self-control is more about what the mind gives attention too than about the controlling the emotion or action. Brooks uses the character of Erica and her tennis career to explain how to have self- control. Brooks explains, “She was reminding herself that she had a say in triggering which inner self would dominate her behavior. All she had to do was focus her attention
...d areas, including sympathy/empathy unresponsiveness and its negative outcomes, are the topics for future researches that can help us develop our understanding of emotional responses to fiction and emotional education. The fact that most of the concepts related to the issue raised in the text can refer to numerous types of processes implies on needing and developing other theories and researches. Therefore, in my opinion, in his essay “Empathy and (Film) Fiction” Alex Neill well-studied the concept of identification, empathy and emotional response to the film and, moreover, visualized the new “fresh” understanding of the significant value of the empathetic responses.
Empathy has been the subject of scrutiny for many philosophers and writers throughout the years. Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of these speculators and ended up writing an entire story to portray her understanding of what empathy is. She writes in Uncle Tom’s Cabin that if we were all to simply do what makes us feel right and feel strong about it, then we will naturally become more empathetic and thereby a benefactor of the human race. This notion, however, has been contested by many and Leslie Jamison is no exception. In The Empathy Exams, Jamison argues that to be empathetic requires more than a general feeling of rightness; it requires wisdom and energy.
A lack of practicing empathy can negatively impact relationships and society. In the short story, “All Summer in a Day”, by Ray Bradbury, portrays a little girl that is in a society where empathy is less important to encourage younger generations to have. Bradbury states in the 5th paragraph of the story, “‘Aw, you didn’t write that!’ protested one of the boys. ‘I did,’ said Margot. ‘I did.”’ In this quote, the little girl, Margot, just shared a poem with the class and her classmate, William, decided to basically call her a liar and say that she didn’t come up with the poem by herself. As all of this is happening, the rest of class sits there listening and not depending Margot as she gets bullied. The lack of empathy is shown here, because out of the whole class, someone most likely has been bullied before and understands the feeling Margot must be having, but yet no one stands up for her.
Afghanistan was a war country where people got attacked by the talibans. In the kite runner a novel by Khaled Hosseini Afghanistan, was a dangerous country. It's the story about a relationship About 2 boys called Hassan and Amir that at this time in the book they were victims and innocents and don't deserve a punishment on the story. People gain empathy when others need the help, when they lose someone, when there's a bond between people and are demonstrating when others have help us we want to help them.
To add, as described throughout To Kill A Mockingbird, the lack of empathy can cause people to mentally damage others and form unpleasant relationships. For example, Walter Cunningham and Miss Caroline are somewhat afflicted by Scout when she ignores and has no concern about their emotions, and this forms an unfavorable impression about her. Despite that, the contrary happens when main character develops empathy and further matures. As she learns about the reality of Boo Radley, she starts to recognize that common beliefs and rumors can be completely contrastive, and can be the result of ignorance about the truths. Thus, a simple change of just having a little bit more empathy than what is acceptable can lead to a better world and a happier society, which in turn, you and everyone else will
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings with others. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there are many characters who showed the quality of empathy. A few examples who undoubtedly showed empathy were the main characters Jem, Atticus, and the narrator Scout Finch. These characters learned and demonstrated compassion throughout the book.
In the novel, The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga the main character, is Balram, one of the children in the “darkness” of India. Adiga sheds a new light on the poor of India, by writing from the point of view of a man who was at one time in the “darkness” or the slums of India and came into the “light” or rich point of view in India. Balram’s job as a driver allows him to see both sides of the poverty line in India. He sees that the poor are used and thrown away, while the rich are well off and have no understanding of the problems the poor people must face. The servants are kept in a mental “Rooster Coop” by their masters. The government in India supposedly tries to help the poor, but if there is one thing Adiga proves in The White Tiger, it is that India’s government is corrupted. Despite the government promises in India designed to satisfy the poor, the extreme differences between the rich and the poor and the idea of the Rooster Coop cause the poor of India to remain in the slums.
According to Arianna Huffington in the article “Empathy: What We Need Now”, during hardships and instability of society, empathy is needed to find solutions to those issues. Huffington writes about how empathy is needed in our country in order to produce a positive social change. She begins by giving an example of a movement that Martin Luther King created and how empathy was a part of this movement. King as well spoke of how empathy is the sign of living. To become involved in the situations of humanity in order to improve it, displays that empathy is the core of a human’s existence. After reading this article, I do agree with Huffington about how individuals need to fully understand and put themselves within the situation to fully comprehend the issue to solve.
In Empathy, Stephen Dunn, who went to war to fight for his country. When he was on the leave from the army, he felt that it was the beginning of empathy for himself. In Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro learns about the significance of the relationship between a young mathematician named Sophia and her professor. The professor admits that one of his self-interest was for a student to challenge him completely, who is not only capable of following the rules of his own mind but to open up his mind. The interplay between empathy and self-interest is that they both effect on each other in many ways, such as, we benefit as a whole from selfless self-interest and caring for others more than we would from the survival of one at the cost of everyone else.
Social interactions are characterized by a fundamental process that allows to understand others ‘sensations by sharing emotions, feelings and beliefs. This ability is called empathy, a controversial and complex “umbrella term” that comprises several elements (Davis et al., 1996). Many researchers are investigating empathy trying to better define it and to decompose its subconstructs (that often overlap between them). A common shared definition suggest that empathy comprises cognitive components like perspective taking, mentalizing or self–other distinction and emotional components such as resonance with the emotions of others and the generation of an appropriate emotional response (Davis, 1996; Decety and Jackson, 2004). In other words, we
In the Sunset Limited, Black’s life was full of darkness because when White asks Black about how Black gets into jail. Black says that “ Murder.” and when White asks him about “ you were always in a lot of trouble?” Black answers that “Yeah. I was I like it. and I liked it. Maybe I still do. I done seven years hard time and I was lucky not to of done a lot more. I hurt a lot of people. I’d smack em around a little and then they would get up again”(McCarthy,18). It show that Black was aggressive and his life used to fulfill with darkness before he change and believe God. He was loss once and he now he become resilience. This which is similar to the freed prisoner in “the Allegory of Cave”. At the beginning of the story, Socrates describes the cave and says that: “People live under the earth in a cavelike dwelling. stretching a long way up toward the daylight is its entrance, toward which the entire cave is gathered. The people have been in this dwelling since childhood, shackled by the legs and neck”(Plato). The freed prisoner used to live in this situation: People who live in the cave have been totally fulfilled with darkness. Plato creates this setting is trying to show that the prisoner used to live in the cave have been totally fulfilled with darkness. In order to
Empathy is like reading a story; although the events in the story aren't happening to us, we are still able to connect emotionally to them. If a character in a story we like is hurt, we feel bad for them but oppositely if a character we hate is hurt, we feel relieved or even glad. Whether we like the protagonist or antagonist we have the natural ability to feel an emotional connection to others like us. Agreeing with the article ”Empathy is a actually a choice” by Daryl Cameron, because of this instinct to choose a certain type of person to connect with, empathy is a choice.
While Heart of Darkness offers a powerful view into the hypocrisy of imperialism, it also delves into the morality of men. Darkness becomes a symbol of hatred, fear and symbol of the power of evil. Marlow begins his story believing that these elements exists within the jungle, then with the natives and finally makes the realization that darkness lives within the heart of each man, even himself. People must learn to restrain themselves from giving into the "darkness." Marlow discusses at one point how even suffering from starvation can lead a man to have "black" thoughts and restraining oneself from these thoughts would be almost impossible in such hardship.