Sympathetic Imagination

Sympathetic imagination is a powerful source of literature as well as social emotion in the world. With sympathetic imagination one can have boundaries and point of view for another. "We are hounds. We have always been hounds. The long-ago faceless people-Before dumped us roadside in Mississippi" (pg 420) is a great example of sympathetic in my opinion. As I read the first few lines of this story automatically I felt a feeling of pity for these hounds. As they introduce who they are, they repeat again that they are hound but this time they added the diction "always" to emphasize and give a stronger tone. Then they gave an image of being dump by people who they do not want to name by calling them "faceless". All these components together and an audience such as me can give my emotionally feelings towards this fictional story. With the same effect in society, human beings can be more tamed and passive rather then destructive and outrageous to every one around them

"Let me tell you it's no life being dead. I'd give anything to chase the gulls again" (pg 438B) is another great sympathetic imagination example. No body likes being dead and as you read this story of this person who died you can feel sadness and pity for him. No body can really explain how it feels to be in the after life because once you are gone, you are gone. This man instead gives you an image of how he describe death. To him death is not fun, that anything would be better than death. I can sympathize with him because I wouldn't want to be dead either and after reading his story I strongly feel that I want to avoid that situation as much as possible. This example affects the audience in a sense that sympathetic imagination can enforce a person's own personal feelings. In society, those who can feel other people's pain doesn't want the same thing to happen to them so we try to narrow our path of decisions to better benefit us.

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Sympathetic Imagination