Compassion

Compassion The author of the writing uses imagery displaying the images of the struggle, diction showing the poverty that is going on and examples of compassion that she questions as she goes around the city, to help convey the message do we really do things out of compassion or do we do them out of sympathy or pity. To start the passage the author states, “his button less shirt, with one sleeve missing, hangs outside the waist of his baggy trousers. Carefully plaited dreadlocks bespeak a better time, long ago.” This description of this man shows the economical trouble this man is experiencing; he can’t afford clothes so he walks with the same clothes even if that mean they have to be in bad condition. She also describes the man that walks into the French bread shop, he 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. This description shows the horrible condition the homeless people live under, she points this out because not many people care about the homeless people they stare and resume there activities and act if they don’t see anything. She uses diction to keep a mental note of the homeless people she sees on her journey through the city and describes what there wearing to show the hardship there facing. The author of the works questions compassion, she builds this theory when the homeless man walks to the corner and the lady grabs hold of her stroller. As this happens across the street 5 men and women look away and begin to daydream and gaze into the light. As he walks up it’s like he’s a total stranger he gets paid no attention no one acknowledges him and he is just left alone. After this a woman hands him a dollar and he doesn’t know what to do, she becomes impatient then he grabs the dollar, then the author asks what compelled her to give him money fear or compassion. Because at first she was holding on tight