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    child and by his actions being like a child‚ it effectively creates sympathy for the character from the readers. This is because it is always easy for a reader to feel sympathetic towards a person with mental difficulties as you can understand how challenging it must be in their situation. George I don’t think Steinbeck creates sympathy for George a such... There’s the theme of the American Dream‚ and the reader’s feel sympathy for George because he keeps telling Lennie about the dream so much

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    Steinbeck creates sympathy in Of Mice and Men. Discuss in relation to one character Of Mice and Men is a novella set on a ranch in the Northern western state of California written by Californian novelist John Steinbeck and then published in the late 1930’s. Set in the time of The Great Depression and The nationwide effective Wall Street Crash the book features characters all around who have depressing lives but focusing in on two paradoxical characters that are always juxtaposed to one another

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    How does Steinbeck create sympathy for Candy and his position on the ranch? Of Mice and Men is a novel written by John Steinbeck‚ set in America in the Great Depression of the 1930s. The main characters in the book are the clever‚ quick George‚ and his slow‚ child-like companion Lennie. They are itinerant workers who find work on a ranch in California’s Salinas Valley. There are many characters on the ranch‚ including Curley‚ Slim‚ and Crooks. However‚ the first ranch worker George and Lennie

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    Sympathy

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    Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who lived through slavery‚ racism and segregation. So this poem is considered to be an extended metaphor where through out the entire poem Dunbar is comparing himself and all African Americans at that time with a caged bird that does not have the freedom to enjoy the nature and does not have the freedom to fly like all other birds meaning white people at that time. The poet starts the poem with a sentence

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    Macbeth- Sympathy

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    How does Shakespeare retain a degree of sympathy for Macbeth through to the end of the play? In order for this play to be a tragedy‚ we must feel some sympathy for the protagonist through to the end of the play – that is one of the features of the genre. So‚ how does Shakespeare retain a degree of sympathy for the “hell-hound” who murders Duncan (his King‚ kinsman and guest)‚ orders the assassination of his best friend Banquo‚ and has Macduff’s entire family savagely put to the sword? While the

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    Sympathy for Candy

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    How does the author create sympathy for candy in section 3? Language The language in the section varies quite a lot as most of it is written calmly and other is written to make you feel sorry for candy. Here is a quote to support my point. “then he rolled slowly over and faced the wall and lay silently” this is a semantic field as it has the words slowly and silent”. This is a semantic field for calmness. The word “faced” means that he didn’t just turn his head he wanted to face the wall so nobody

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    Essay On Sympathy

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    Neither Medea nor Jason deserve our sympathy || Faigy Gross Euripides wrenches and pulls at the emotions of the reader from every angle throughout his play of Medea‚ where he compels the audience to feel sympathy for both Medea and those she causes to suffer. At the inception of the play‚ Euripides positons the audience to pity Medea‚ employing an emphatic nurse figure to describe her tormented past. In contrast‚ the audience are manipulated to be unsympathetic towards Jason who has betrayed Medea

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    Sympathy for Frankenstein

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    events are replicated in this book‚ which makes the reader to be sympathetic. In the novel Frankenstein‚ many themes are discussed and a major one is sympathy. Sympathy is defined as “feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else’s misfortune.” –TheFreeDictionary. When sympathy is discussed in Frankenstein‚ we are mostly talking about having sympathy towards the monster or Victor Frankenstein. Different arguments and points support both sides‚ but it entirely depends on the readers’ perspective; a

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    Santiago Sympathy

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    Sympathy is a universal emotion that we‚ as human all tend to felt toward people have an unfortunate‚ a harsher‚ more oppressed life than us. In Ernest Hemmingway’s ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ 1952 novella‚ an old Cuban fisherman named Santiago‚ our protagonist has strongly elicited our sympathy toward him due to the harsh‚ lonely‚ poor and full-of-suffering life that he had have to experience‚ especially when he loosed the greatest catch of his life: the marlin. Despite that there are counter arguments

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    Definition Of Sympathy

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    meaning. When my grandpa passed away‚ I received sympathy in various forms. From getting sympathy cards and hugs from family and friends to words of encouragement and support during a tough time‚ people demonstrated the meaning of sympathy in a plethora of different ways. Sympathy is defined by dictionary.com as “the fact or power of sharing the feelings of another‚ especially in sorrow or trouble; fellow feeling‚ compassion‚ or commiseration”. Sympathy is not just a feeling; it is the power of sharing

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