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THE POWERS OF SYMPATHY OR EMPATHY IN PEOPLES ORDINARY LIVES

THROUGH MY PERSPECTIVE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDENT?

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my

sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, glory in the

flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

William Wordsworth

To begin it is necessary to clarified the concepts of sympathy and empathy; according

to the Thesaurus, an online dictionary, sympathy is described as the mutual

understanding or affection arising from this relationship or affinity and Empathy as

the Identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives

to summarize, empathy and sympathy is what make us a live, one of the greatest

human feelings, It is vital to clarified that those feelings are the base of Alice Munros

books sometimes not in an obvious manner but it is present all the time in some parts

of the book, they are present as the interests that the reader take from the books those

times where the reader can feel an identification with one of the characters, otherwisewho cannot be able to imagine himself as the Doctor or as Muriel on the short story of

Muriel: What is remembered.

Empathy and Sympathy are like yin and yang they usually come together, even when

it mean to be no sense between their proximity, its power can give as much

advantages as possible but at the same troubles in the case of some insensible

people; as a future teacher may I said that we have to be sensible and sensitive to all

human expressions and situations in order to understand until the limit our students

because before being students are human beings, and it is in that exactly moment

where the powers of both, empathy and sympathy take place, work together, but what

would happen if we were insensible people?.Being sensible and sensitive has been associated with weakness and fear, but it is

not! Sense and sensibility can be a winner combination of powers, it can provides us

greatest arms against indifference that overpower the humans lives as a model to

follow and thats exactly what Alice wanted we to know and to do: to wake up since our

caves, to fill the human feelings of others and make that those feelings were important

for all of us as equally as possible.

Sometimes we avoid easy things in life thinking that for being those things the easy

ones they have not too much importance, but it is exactly the importance we take for

those little things what make us alive, what make us take a direction, what can be the

objectives of a teacher if it is not helping and learning from others? It is unusual endingan essay with a question but the idea is to reflect before giving a quickly answer that

could have a lot of non-answered and clarified questions.