john's+first+draft

===Fights, hates, revenges, even wars, nobody ever wants to make these things happen, but them do happen every time. To avoid the damage that caused by these disasters, people are trying their best to find a solution, but how? The answer is, empathy. Actually, empathy does works in our real life, and it will help us in many different situations. To think about a TV series called "CSI" made by CBS Production. Through all the cases, there is a police officer who trying to thinking about the criminals' situations and guessing what he or she will do next or who the criminal is. So he can always find some details that other officers were ignored and help solving the case. Hence, this is the example of uses of empathy===

Conflicts, hates, revenges, even wars. Nobody ever wants to make these things happen, but they do happen every time. Why can't we avoid them? How to solve them? Actually, real life experience can give us the answer. To think about a TV series called "CSI". In all the cases, there always has a police officer who walk around the crime scene and think about the criminals' mind. Why he did this, what is his plan, who is he, where he is now? After taken the criminals' position, he can find some clues that others ignored and help identified the criminal. Through the connection, the police officer is trying to make himself became a criminal, estimates all the differences between them and becomes the same. Then he can easily finds what he is looking for. Therefore, we need empathy. Because the truth is that all the conflicts comes from differences, and everyone is different. So in order to make less hurts, the gaps between people must be estimated, and the best way to do so is to step into the shoes of others, take others positions, then the conflicts are no longer conficts because everybody understand each other's situation.

Conflicts, hates, revenges, even wars. Nobody ever wants to make these things happen, but they do happen every time. Why can't we avoid them? How to solve them? Actually, real life experience can give us the answer. To think about a TV series called "CSI". In all the cases, there always has a police officer who walks around the crime scene and think about the criminals' mind. Why he did this, what is his plan, who is he, where he is now? After taken the criminals' position, he can find some clues that others ignored and help identified the criminal. Through the connection, the police officer is trying to make himself became a criminal, estimates all the differences between them and becomes the same. Then he can easily find what he is looking for. Therefore, we need empathy. Because the truth is that all the conflicts comes from differences, and everyone is different. So in order to make less hurts, the gaps between people must be estimated, and the best way to do so is to step into the shoes of others, take others positions, then the conflicts are no longer conflicts because everybody understands each other's situation.

Harper Lee’s “To kill a Mockingbird” has clearly indicated the disadvantages of not using empathy because it causes a lot of damages. As far as I concerned, these damages may finally create the circle of hate. For example, in this book, when Scout went to the Finch’s Landing, her uncle Jack criticized her without let her explaining. It made her so angry that she said she hate Jack. (Lee 112) Here Uncle Jack is too subjective. He has a bias on Scout because he judges Scout using past experiences that Scout likes to swear. So he just punished Scout without even let her explain the reasons. This event made Scout mad at Jack but he didn’t even notice. Because he didn’t know what caused Scout so angry and swear to Francis, he just simply thinks that swearing is wrong and criticism and punishment will let Scout remember her fault. But obviously, he just creates the circle of hate. It is common that when someone swear to someone’s family, revenges become normal. But the real difficulty is to forgive someone. Another example is from Mrs. Dubose. When Jem and Scout passed her house, she said Atticus, the two children’s father, was no better than the niggers. It made Jem so mad that he cut off all the plants that Dubose owned. (Lee 135-137) Jem revenged Mrs. Dubose because of her speeches, but what he does not know is that Mrs. Dubose was suffering the pain of cancer and give up morphine. So in order to make herself feel easier, she needs to swear to somebody. Similarly, Mrs. Dubose thought it was all right to criticize Jem and Scout because they are just kids, but what she didn’t know is that Jem is old enough to respond the stain of his family’s reputation. If they both know each other very well, and think for each other, the conflicts between them will no longer exist. Like when Atticus told Jem the truth after Mrs. Dubose’s death, he felt guilty and fingered the wide petals. Forgiveness is hard, but with empathy, it is not a problem any more. People may do something that other people think is totally unacceptable, even felt been hurt. But the main challenge is to be vast. Once Scout wanted to quit the school because she was beaten by Miss. Caroline for the reason that she can read. (Lee 39) As we know, Scout’s teacher is a new recruit, and she never had the experience to get along with students. In her opinion, every student should do exactly as she told them to do. So she showed her power over Scout by hitting her, and it makes the circle of hate. Sometimes ignoring is a skill, especially when others say or do something that is not properly. Because it will make everybody feel comfortable. To be more specifically, if everyone just complains about the things they don’t like, how can everyone alive in the society of criticize? The more complain there is, the more conflicts there will be. Therefore, to make fewer conflicts, just accept others, it is important for empathy. Finally, to break the circle of hate, empathy is the key. It can make people forgive other’s mistakes and accept other’s behaviors.

== Conflicts, hates, revenges, even wars. Nobody ever wants to make these things happen, but they do happen every time. Why can't we avoid them? How to solve them? Actually, real life experience can give us the answer. To think about a TV series called "CSI". In all the cases, there always has a police officer who walks around the crime scene and think about the criminals' mind. Why he did this, what is his plan, who is he, where he is now? After taken the criminals' position, he can find some clues that others ignored and help identified the criminal. Through the connection, the police officer is trying to make himself became a criminal, estimates all the differences between them and becomes the same. Then he can easily find what he is looking for. Therefore, we need empathy. Because the truth is that all the conflicts comes from differences, and everyone is different. So in order to make less hurts, the gaps between people must be estimated, and the best way to do so is to step into the shoes of others, take others positions, then the conflicts are no longer conflicts because everybody understands each other's situation. ==

== Harper Lee’s //__To kill a Mockingbird__// has clearly indicated the disadvantages of not using empathy because it causes a lot of damages. As far as I am concerned, these damages may finally grow the gap between people. For example, in this book, when Scout went to the Finch’s Landing, her uncle Jack criticized her without let her explaining. It made her so angry that she said she hate Jack. (Lee 112) Here Uncle Jack is too subjective. He has a bias on Scout because he judges Scout using past experiences that Scout likes to swear and he had warned her not to do so, but she still swear to Francis. So he just punished Scout without even let her explain the reasons. This event made Scout mad at Jack but he didn’t even notice. Because he didn’t know what caused Scout so angry and swear to Francis, he just simply thinks that swearing is wrong. So criticism and punishment will let Scout remember her fault. But obviously, he just grows the gap between him and Scout. And this gap turned the Scout attitude to Jack from love to hate. How wide can a gap make people from love to hate? Furthermore, it is common that when someone swear to someone’s family, revenges become normal. But the real difficulty is to forgive someone. Another example is from Mrs. Dubose. When Jem and Scout passed her house, she said Atticus, the two children’s father, was no better than the niggers. It made Jem so mad that he cut off all the plants that Dubose owned. (Lee 135-137) Jem revenged Mrs. Dubose because of her speeches, but what he does not know is that Mrs. Dubose was suffering the pain of cancer and give up morphine. So in order to make herself feel easier, she needs to swear to somebody. Similarly, Mrs. Dubose thought it was all right to criticize Jem and Scout because they are just kids, but what she didn’t know is that Jem is old enough to respond the stain of his family’s reputation. If they both know each other very well, and think for each other, the gaps between them will no longer exist. Like when Atticus told Jem the truth after Mrs. Dubose’s death, he felt guilty and fingered the wide petals to memorize this brave old lady. Moreover, forgiveness is hard, but with empathy, it is not a problem any more. People may do something that other people think is totally unacceptable, even felt been hurt. But the main challenge is to be broad-minded. Once Scout wanted to quit the school because she was beaten by Miss. Caroline for the reason that she can read. (Lee 39) It seems ridicules to punish a student who can do better than others. But as we know, Scout’s teacher Miss. Caroline is a new recruit, and she never had the experience to get along with students. In her opinion, every student should do exactly as she told them to do. So she showed her power over Scout by hitting her, and it creates and grows the gap between teacher and students. As a result, Scout became afraid to go to school because she can get nothing but the punishment from her teacher. However, teachers’ job is to teach, but the more important is to make students interested in learning. Therefore, empathy becomes an important skill. Just try to encourage students instead of criticize, because students often be motivated by just a simple inspirited word. They may even feel that problems are no longer problems, thus, the gaps won’t exist anymore. All in all, understanding, forgiveness, acceptance, without them, people will always feel uncomfortable, and then the nature of human will create the gap to protect them from being hurt and uncomfortable again. But, unfortunately, the gap will also keep the warm away. Because no one can feel each others real hearts anymore. The more conflict there is, the wider gap there will be. Finally, human emotions will disappear because there was nothing they need to care any more. Can people imagine how to live in the world like this? So in order to make the world better, empathy is the key. With the power of empathy, the gaps will shrink until disappeared. Because everyone has recognized that no one is the same and trying to understand each other. ==

== On the other hand, Harper Lee’s //__To kill a Mockingbird__// do have some examples about how useful the empathy is. Specifically, sometimes children like to pretend to be some one else and do things stupid. But they don’t know hurtful it is to the people they pretend to be. Jem and Scout used to play jokes on Boo Radley, they assumed and acted that Boo was a monster. “‘I know what we are going to play,’ he announced, …… ‘ He died years ago and they stuffed him up the chimney.’ ” (Lee 51) Here they show no respect to Boo and Boo had seen them playing. But the truth is, eventually Boo saved their lives by killing Bob Ewell when he was trying to attack Jem and Scout(Lee 333) Actually, it is Jem's fault to create the gap between the children and Boo. Because he believed in the rumors about Boo and influenced Scout as well. Although Boo can looked through the window and saw what they were doing, he still didn't mad at them because he knew that everything Jem and Scout had done is because of curiosity. They wanted to know exactly what Boo actually is. This curiosity made them do everything the can to make Boo out of his house. even ignore others feelings. But Boo didn't care about that, he understood Jem and Scout and did a lot of things to help them. For example, he hided some gifts for Scout in the hole of the tree, he gave Scout a to keep her warm in a snowing day soundlessly. At last, he even saved her life. Every thing Boo had done is to make a circle of empathy, and with this circle, the gap will eventually been cured. Like what Scout recognized at the end of the book.==