Empathy Writing

This post will be on how authors try to create a feeling of empathy in their readers. Authors try to create a feeling of empathy in the readers by adding adjectives and to add lots of detail to their writing. One reason why authors put empathy writing in their books is so that readers can fell the same way as the characters in the book feel.

Empathy can be shown so many ways which includes depressed, sad, sympathy and pity parts in the book. One example of empathy that I found in The Breadwinner is when Parvana and her family had to see him being taken away by the Taliban. Another way how authors try to create empathy is when someone dies or gets taken away.

In another book that I read that has empathy in it is Bridge to Terabithia. The part that made me fell empathy in Bridge to Terabithia is when one of the main characters Leslie Burke dies. This made me feel empathy for both the readers and the characters in the book because they will never see her again. That is my blog about empathy.

Breadwinner

Imagine living in a country where women and girls were not allowed to leave the house without a man. Imagine having to wear clothes that cover every part of your body including your face with something called a burqa.

If I had to cover myself head to toe with something called a burqa, I would not be that happy because the climate in Afghanistan is always SO hot. Also you would have to wear it all the time and every where you go. I imagine it would be hard to breathe and you would have only limited space to see around you. It would be hard to walk and I think that I would have to walk everywhere. With a burqua, you can't see when people are smiling, sad and angry. I think that I would feel stiff, have difficulty moving and always worry about staying covered in public. It would be hard to tell my family and friends apart if they were all dressed the same. Overall, if I had to cover myself with a burqa, I would feel invisible.

Holocaust Survivor Dr. Eva Olsson

Imagine being lined up with everyone you love and you are told to go in one direction and everyone else has to go the other way. How would you feel? Not even being able to say "I love you" for the last time. If I was Eva I would feel scared because you don't know where your mom is. And then, someone comes up to you and tells you to give your niece to someone who is old. This was a little girl who Eva promised her sister that she would take care of. How could she give her away to a stranger? That is what she did, and it saved her life because all the people with their children were killed. Also 65 or so years later it still makes Eva sad to think of the loss of her mother and father.




I am wondering how Eva got the picture of her mother and father. I think she is lucky to still have a picture of them. Was there a secret hiding spot in their house that they kept pictures so no one but the family members knew about? I wonder if her sister is still alive and how they found each other after the war without today's technology.




Overall, during Eva's speech, I felt touched because she could talk to my school about how she survived the Holocaust. One thing that my school did was sing Happy Birthday to her and give her flowers which made Eva so happy that she cried!

MS Team Building Day!

On October 19th, Grades 6, 7 and 8 went to Norval for a team building day where we learned to work as a group to finish the tasks that we were assigned. One of the things that my team did well at was everyone was helping to achieve the goal to finish that task. When we were at the activity where you had to get the tire off the king's finger, everyone was helping out somehow to make sure that Thomas was safe all of the time when he was off the ground getting the tire. We manged to get the tire off and Thomas was safe. With still more than half of the time left, our group leader told us that we could put the tire back on the king's finger. So everyone decided to have me go up and put the tire up because I was the lightest in the group. As a group we managed to get the tire on and off.

During the zig-zag activity, where you had to go on the four planks to get to the end, it was my turn and I tried to use the rope to help me across the planks but the rope seemed to make me fall off the planks. So I overcame this problem by holding out my hands like I was on a balance beam. As I started to cross the first plank again, holding my hands out seemed to work, then I decided to do it for the whole time which seemed to help me balance. My group leader told me after that he thinks the rope was not helping me balance as much as holding my hands out. That was so true what he said.

My overall impression of MS Team Building Day is that it was better than grade 6. It was better than grade 6 because we got to do more exciting activities. Also my group worked well together. The people in my group were Jamie, Hayley, Brenna, Emma, Darcy, Wilks, Thomas, Ethan, Eric and Robert. Overall MS Team Building Day was good.

" The Clothes make the man"

Are you shaped by what you wear?

I don't think that I am shaped by what I wear. Most people in the world just look at a person and see what they are wearing that day. Some people may say "Ew she is wearing the same thing she did yesterday." It's almost like, 'cool' people go shopping every week, or day to get the latest trends from stores like Aéropostale and Abercrombie and Fitch. So the next day that they get they can go off to school and show all their friends and say "Look it what I got yesterday!" Their friends say "Oh I love it!"

Where as not so 'cool' people go to school or outside wearing the same old boring clothes that they have been wearing to school for the past couple of months. Some people can't afford to purchase clothes every day or week, because their family don't have the money. They may not be able to afford the hundred dollar clothes that some people get. Some of those people have to get hand me downs from friends, family or relatives.

I am going to connect "the clothes make the man" with Gossip Girl a TV show because if you don't own brand name clothes then automatically you are not popular and will looked down upon.

People can express themselves through what they wear. People are different because you may like to wear comfortable clothes, sporty clothes, casual clothes, fancy clothes.

Don't judge a person by what they wear, you have to get to know them before you truly know who they are.

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