Mary's+Character+Connection2

In the book, which was written by Harper Lee and named "To Kill A Mockingbird", Jem Scout hated Mrs. Dubose very much, because if she always sat on the porch, when they passed by, she always gazed them wrathfully and said they would got nothing in the future. She was strict with the way of greeting and said that Scout was an ugly girl. To be honest, she was not very respect for them and she looked upon Atticus, who was the father of Jem and Scout.(Lee, 132) However, after the death of Mrs. Dubose, Atticus had told the really reason why Mrs. Dubose treated them like that. Jem made the empathy to Mrs. Dubose, so he really understood the feeling of Mrs. Dubose and he cherished the camellia very much, which Mrs. Dubose gave it to him eventually. I have found an article named “ [|Victim of hate crime express empathy for attackers] ”. The news reported that there was a gay man who got the victim by the anti-gay attacker who hated the gay crime very much. But the attacker said he got the empathy to those people. In the news report, the attacker said: “People make mistakes. I hope they learn their lesson and never do this to anybody else.” This news report got some connection with the book about hating from Jem and Scout about Mrs. Dubose. Initially, I think both of characters in the book and the news got hatred from others. And then, they all can understand people’s situation, though they usually hated those kinds of people. So both of them made the empathy to the people who they hated and they all forgave those people eventually. Continuously, they both did something by mistake. However, Mrs. Dubose in the book did it because of her cancer and she wanted to get rid of the pain from her disease. And the character in the news did the mistake purposely. Personally, when I got into those conditions, I think Mrs. Dubose could get more empathy than the character in the newspaper. The reference website: http://outfrontcolorado.com/ofcblog/news/victim-of-hate-crime-express-empathy-for-attackers/