In Phantom of the Opera, Christine’s compassion for the Phantom leads to his redemption and transformation: he lets Raoul and Christine go free, he himself is set free from his bitterness and hatred, and he escapes the mob after physically transforming himself to elude capture.
Think about other stories you have read or seen in which a character showed compassion for another. How did that compassionate act change a character or move the story in a new direction? Name the story or character and share your observations.
Another way to think about the question is to turn it around: Can you think about a story in which the withholding of compassion has turned a character or a story in a direction different from where it might have otherwise gone?
Can these questions apply to nonfiction as well as to fiction? You may answer with a nonfiction example if you prefer.
Write a comment in order to respond to the question, or respond by elaborating on another student’s comment.
In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, Jonas beings to feel compassion for the baby Gabriel. When the baby cries, he wants to comfort him. Later, he finds out the baby is going to be killed. In order to rescue the child, he abruptly changes the careful plan that he and the Giver have made. His compassion for Gabriel changed the plot of the story: Jonas leaves weeks before he was ready, and the reader is left to wonder if he and the baby survived.
Another way in which The Giver explores compassion is with the character Rosemary, the daughter of the Giver. She felt so much compassion for the people in her memories that she couldn’t bear the pain of their experiences. She decided to end her life rather than feel those feelings. This loss of a candidate for Giver made the society more cautious in their selection process, putting more pressure on Jonas to be successful in his role.
In “brother bear” the big bear Kenai showed compassion to the little bear coda. By taking him to the to the salmon run. Kenai provided protection to the little bear from the hunter.
In Charles Dickens The Christmas Caorl, Scrooge began to feel compassion when all the angles told him how he might be treated in heaven or in hell. Like when he went to his nephews house, Fredrick or when he gave his worker a big turkey and more money.
Scrooge donates to a orphanage and lives his life and tries to make people happy and give them time off work. He helps people and gives people things.
Yes I totally agree with your post. Scrooge felt remorse when he saw the children, and families that were poor and didn’t have anything to eat at night, or when they would bundle up on cold nights and sleep on the floor with barley any blanket.
Also in The Christmas Choral, Scrooge’s depressing life is briefly enlightened by Fezziwig’s, Scrooge’s master, compassion. Feziwig’s compassion allowed Scrooge to open his heart enough for him to fall in love with Bell, leaving him broken when Bell rejected him. All of this made Scrooge who he was in the book.
I strongly agree because he started out being this old grinch but when the angles started showing him compassion and that he would die with so many chains and so he realized the way he treated people and at the end he changed to a loving person who everyone liked! I loved that book.
I can agree with this post. At the beginning, Scrooge was a cold-hearted, mean, stingy man who didn’t care for anyone but himself. Through the trials of the 3 spirits, he learned to show love and compassion to his friends and family as well as a good amount of generosity. I think we can learn from Scrooge and strive to be the person he has become.
In John Flanagans The Royal Ranger, Will is saddend and set on revenge for his wife’s death. His friends are worried he is being consumed with anger so they give him an apprentice to take his mind off of it. The apprentice shows understanding because he is her godfather. His mind is distracted until they are assigned a mission involving the killer. Together that catch the killer and Will is no longer bitter.
In J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone, Lily Potter gave her life to protect her son, Harry. This compassion left a mark on Harry, which protected him from Voldemort’s evil curse, and banished the Dark Lord for 11 years.
Another way in Harry Potter where someone showed compassion is in the final book when Hermione erases her parents memorie of her so they won’t get killed when voldemort tries to find her so he can get to Harry.
Another example of compassion in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry shows compassion to the people in Hogwarts. When the school gets a threaten by lord Voldemort, Harry makes a walk to sacrifice him self for the well being of his only true home and family, Hogwarts. Harry sacrifices him self just like his mom did for him when he was a baby. His act of compassion leads to a end of the Voldemort reign and all is well at Hogwarts.
In the Phantom of the Opera, Christine showed compassion for the Phantom by kissing him. The Phantom is touched and releases Christine and Raoul to the above world. The Phantom is free from hate, vengeance, depression, and free from the dark and goes away.
Also Madam showed compassion for the phantom cause she saw that he got whipped and beat. Then, she freed the phantom and took him from the opera house.
In the book Legend by Marie Lu, the female protagonist June, feels compassion for the male protagonist Day. She feels bad that she accused him of killing his brother when he didn’t and having to kill his mother. She then helps him break out of prison.
In Gears of War Aspho Fields by Karen Traviss.The main character Marcus Fenix gives his Embry Star, the most prestigious award that can be awarded to army personnel, to a dead solider at his funeral. This gives the soilder’s brother Carlos closure and eases his loss. It shows that showing respect can also be an act of compassion.
In To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee,Scout shows compassion to Boo (Arthur) Radley. In the last two chapters, Scout make sure of Boo’s “need” for darkness, and she leads him to the darkest seat on the porch. She also understands that Boo wants to see Jem one last time, and even she even lets Boo touch Jem’s head, even though he’s asleep with a broken arm. She also helps and escorts Boo home when he asked her to walk him home. She also puts herself in Boo’s skin, and “sees” what Boo’s life has been for the past two years in the darkness. As you can see, Scout showed compassion to Boo.
In Beowulf by Robert Nye, Beowulf showed compassion for the people who live in the kindom with Hrothgar as their king. By showing compassion for the lives lost, Beowulf killed Grendel. If Beowulf hadn’t showed compassion, perhaps the monster wouldn’t be killed and the Horothgar might still be in trouble.
Another way in which the book Beowulf showed compassion was when the character Unferth showed compassion towards Grendel, the large slimy beast of the book. When Beowulf slain the beast, Unferth had a fit of fury and rushed out into the evil marsh. Later his decapitated head was found impaled on a wooden post outside of the entrance to Grendel’s mother’s home. When this happened, everyone that was ruled by Hrothgar were confused, and even beowulf was obviously discouraged slightly from going to confront Grendel’s mother.
In The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin, a character named Murdoch shows compassion that molded this story into the amazing piece of writing it became. Murdoch shows his compassion by standing infront of a young boy and protecting him from his father’s open abuse in a public grocery store. Matthew Walsh and his younger sister Callie see this characters act of courage and compassion. Believing that Murdoch can help protect him and his siblings from their mother’s abuse, Matthew and Callie search and search for this “guardian Angel”. In the same way, Murdoch’s refusal to help leads the siblings into trouble and more pain then they should have had to gone through, in this sad story.
In ‘The Nine Lives of Chloe King’ by Celia Thompson, Chloe risks her life to save her mother, who had been kidnapped from Chloe’s house. She meets her arch enemy (who is trying to kill her) in a field, and risks one of her 9 lives to save the humans. It isn’t anything like a kiss, but it is mother-daughter compassion.
In Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games, Rue shows compassion to Katnis when Katnis gets bitten by the genetically altered bees. Rue finds Katnis lying on the ground with a few sting that could be fatal to her. Instead of leaving Katnis to dye, Rue helps heal Katnis, and they became allies.
Another example of showing compassion in The Hunger Games is when Peeta Mellark shows compassion to Katniss Everdeen, his District 12 lover. While Katniss was lying in the rain, lonely, cold, and hungry, Peeta (who worked at a bakery) saw her from a far distance and decided to throw her a piece of burnt bread. He helped Katniss in her time of struggle, leading to the possibility of fighting in the games with her. If Peeta hadn’t done this, then Katniss could’ve likely not been in the story.
In the book “Legend” by Marie Lu, a character named June showed compassion to a character named Day, and this changed the entire plot. Day was charged with murder and June, a government agent, went in undercover to bring him in to the government. She soon discovered that Day had been framed, and started feeling compassion for him. She eventually helped him escape, and this changed the entire plot.
In The Outxast of Redwall Sunstripe feels compassion and frees Scarlath from the ice. Scarlath then assists him in escaping Swart’s evil gang. If Sunstripe hadn’t shown compassion for Scarlath and Scarlath hadn’t shown compassion for Sunstripe they would both be dead.
In the Hunger Games, a book by Suzanne Collins, the main Character, Katniss Everdeen shows compassion to Peter by saying that she rather die with Peter than live without him. This event causes the hostes of the Hunger Games to allow both of them to survive and be victorious.
In the book The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares Tibby showed compassion for Bailey. In the beginning Tibby disliked Bailey and thought she was annoying but then when Bailey got sick with cancer Tibby was there all the time in the hospital with her. Lastly when Bailey died Tibby was at her grave and at her funeral crying. In the endTibby showed how much she cared for her even if she didn’t show them with actions in her daily life.
In Charles Dickens a Christmas Carol Scrooge started to feel compassion for the angels that showed him his past, present, and future life. After this Scrooge showed compassion for everyone in the town by donating, buying things for others, complementing people. This changed the ending of the book because Scrooge was an awful person and he now he liked people. This shows how compassion changed an ending.
In A Christmas Carol, Scrooge showed no compassion for any one even though his nephew and a few others showed compassion toward him. The three spirits came to show him what the peoples lives were like whom he showed no compassion toward. On Christmas Day he changed his ways and showed compassion to everyone and everything by performing various charitable acts.
In the Hunger Games Katniss befriends Rue from district 11. Later on in the book (after Rue’s death) Katniss gets attacked at the cornucopia but gets saved by Thresh from district 11. After saving her, he says it was because she helped Rue.
In John Flanagan’s The Rangers Apprentice Will shows compassion for his once mentor Halt. He was always loyal and was a bright spot in Halt”s life. If he didn’t do this they might not have gone on all the adventures they did, and Will wouldn’t be able to do all the things he and Halt can accomplish as a team.
In the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Peta melark throws bread out to Katniss. Even though he knows he will be harshly disciplined for burning and giving away the bread. This helps Katniss and her family from starving in there hard time. If Peta hadn’t given Katniss the bread she or prim might have starved to death and led to someone else going to the games. If Katniss hadn’t gone to the games there would never had been a revolution and there dreadful world would have stayed he same.
In Eragon, Eragon saves a woman named Arya and starts to have feelings for her. Arya appreciates him and later saves him from a powerful man named Durza. If she hadn’t saved him. They then fight together to dethrone Galbatorix, the king who has ruled in tyranny for centuries. With her help again, they kill the king and live in peace forever.
Eragon is also by Christopher Paolini, and if Arya hadn’t saved him the book would’ve ended right there.
In ‘Ender’s Game’ by Orson Scott Card, the bullies in the main school targeted Ender, showing him little compassion because he is a third. When Ender gets his monitor out, they bully him a lot more. Ender decides to not only end the current fight, but to end all other fights in the future. He ends up hurting the main bully so badly that he has to go to the hospital, and the generals of the kid’s army against the buggers are impressed with Ender’s reasoning for hurting him, they recruited him into the army. If Ender and the bullies didn’t have a run-in as soon as the monitor was out, Ender might not have gotten admitted into the school, and it would have been a very boring book.
In the book The House of Hades, Nico shows compassion to a Titan who unfortunately lost his memory. Nico even when to Tartartus, a bad place, to be kind to the Titan named Iapetus, who’s name was changed to Bob due to his loss of memory. This changed the story, because when the main characters, Percy and Annebeth, were in trouble Bob came to save the day. He then got them home. Although it cost him his BLEEPED DUE TO SPOILERS.
In Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, when Johana, Wires, and Beetee are all caught in the acid rain. They must run in order to stay alive, except Wires is in shock, and can’t move by herself. Johana shows compassion to wires because by pulling her out of the acid rain because she knows how important Wires is to Katniss. If Johana had not pulled out Wires, Katniss would have never been able to figure out that the arena was set up as a clock.
In Suzan Collins The Hunger Games Katniss shows Peeta compassion by saying that she would rather die with Peeta than live with out him by saying they would both eat the berries.
In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Katniss shows compassion to Rue.
She risked her life to protect Rue even tough she knew only one could win and survive. By showing compassion they both helped each other in ways they couldn’t if they were seperate. Rue was the closest thing Katniss had to family in the arena. They became a great team, and Rue wished her luck before she died.
Another example from The Hunger Games is when Katniss risked her life to save Peeta. Katniss goes to the cornucopia to get the bag with the medicine for Peeta. By going to get the bag and showing Peeta compassion Peeta does not die. The medicine works great and heals him not totally but a lot. What Katniss does changes the story a lot because it show her compassion for Peeta and how much she cares from him. Even though she knows she could die she goes anyways for Peeta.
From the book Eragon by Christopher Paolini, the leader of the rebel army (Nasuada) shows compassion to the Urgals (the equivalent of the orcs in Lord of The Rings). Nasuada trusted the Urgals and gave them a chance, even though all the Urgals had ever done was kill and pillage. She showed them that someone could trust them and that if they helped each other then they could defeat the tyrant king. Without the Urgals help, the rebel army would’ve been too small and weak to win the war with things going back to normal–where people would be killed, and no one could do anything to stop it,
In Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian, Luke is helping the titans winthe war against titans and gods. Percy gas him out of helping the titans by showing him compassion and in the end Luke ends up saving the dogs and demigods.
In Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, Rue, the tribute from District 11, shows compassion for Katniss when she helps her instead of killing her. When Rue finds Katniss almost dead, She comforts her and treats her wounds even though Rue easily could have killed Katniss to just to get rid of another competitor. Katniss later returns the favor and creates an alliance with Rue. When rue dies, Katniss promises she will win for her.
In J.K. Rowling’s book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry shows “compassion” toward Peter Petigrew, the man that betrayed his parents. Peter, a man diguised as a rat for many years, sold out Harry and his parents to Lord Voldemort when Harry was just a baby. Harry Potter and other wizards had Peter Petigrew at “wand”-point, but Harry decided to show him mercy. Harry showed him compassion and understanding in that situation by not killing him immediately. (This one was kind of hard to explain and a little bit of a reach for “compassion”, but hopefully you understood it 🙂 )
In Charels Dickens The Christmas Carol Scrooge learns compassion from the 3 ghost when they showed him what his future would be. He then learened compassion and gave lots of money to charity for orphan children.
In the movie Beauty and the Beast, written by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne there is a great load of compassion shown. Bell cares for the Beast when most people are scared of him. They fall in love and the curse is broken. Bell shows compassion for the Beast, which turned into a handsome man.
In the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Katnis everdeen shows compassion to Rue her little sister. When Rue’s name was announced for her to participate in the Hunger Games Katnis volunteered and probably saved her life.
In Finding Nemo! Dori shows compassion for Marlin compassion by helping him find his son despite even knowing him and the fish in the fish tank with Nemo show compassion by helping to true to get back into the ocean. Dori helps Marlin through thick and thin, cold or hot determined to make and help a friend does not show the same compassion to her.
Another example is when the turtles show compassion by helping Marlin find his son through the East Australian current, when it leads him to Sidney Australia where Nemo is stuck in a fish tank when Dori and Marlin find him. I love this movie!!
In Boy 21 by Matthew Quick, Finley shows compassion to Russ. Russ has to move to a new school after his parents are killed and he thinks he is an alien from another plane. He is really good at basketball. Finley decides to show compassion to Russ even though he could lose his starting position to him.
In “The Beauty and The Beast” belle shows compassion to The Besat by kissing him, which changes him. He’s soul is fixed and he turns into a handsome human being and belle and The Beast fall in love.
In A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, Scrooge showed no compassion for anyone. The spirits showed him the values compassion, and what could happen if he continued being cruel. On Christmas Day, Srooge showed compassion and his life turned around.
In one of the Percy Jackson books, Percy shows compassion to a Titan named Iapetus. He was thrown in the River Lethe, a river that erases your memories, and forgot everything. They showed compassion by not killing him and allowing him to live a new life under the guise of Bob. Then much later in the series he shows compassion to Percy when his memories start to return by sacrificing himself so he could escape and save the world.
In the book The Beauty and The Beast written by Bruce Woodside the beast was not shown any compassion all of his life. The Beast starts to show compassion for Belle, the princess, when Belle realizes that the beast needs compassion in his life. After that the beast shows compassion for Belle.
In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Katniss everdeen shows compassion by staying out in the freezing cold. She is doing this for her family because shy thinks that all of her actions could hurt her familly. That is why Catniss feels compassion.
Also in” The Hunger Games”, Katniss showed compassion to Prim, her little sister. When Prim was selected as a candidate to play in the Hunger Games, Katniss had said” I volunteer.” This meant that she would take the place of her sister, and risk her life in the Hunger Games. Without Katniss’s compassion for Prim, Prim probably would’ve died in the Hunger Games.
In the book Beastly,(a modern version of The Beauty and the Beast) the character Kyle is a mean and careless person. Since he is so rude, A witch turns him into a unattractive person. Once Kyle meets a Girl named Lindy he becomes a better person. Lindy shows compassion towards him and when they fall in love the spell is broken and he is turned back to his normal self.
In the book Allegiant (Divergent Series book 3) by Verionica Roth. The main character Tris shows compassion to her brother, who escorted her to her own execution, and took his place on his un-survivable mission. Instead of allowing him to give himself. She forgave him.
In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Rue tells Katniss about a tracker jacked nest so she could get away, and later Rue helps treat Katniss’s stings. Then they become allies, and protect each other.
In the Hunger Games, by Suzane Collins Katniss Everdeen shows great compassion for her little sister Rue by volunteering as a tribute in the Hunger Games by risking her life in a fight to the death.
In the book series Gone by Micheal Grant, Sam, the main character, showed compassion to the surviving children living in the FAYZ. Without his compassion, they probably would have starved to death before the people outside managed to find a way through the wall of the FAYZ.
In the book Legend by Marie Lu Day is supposed to be killed by a firing squad and was getting help by June. When it’s time to escpae June is trying to get Day and his older brother, John to safety by put there’s not enough time. John has said earlier in the book “I would die for Day.” When they are trying to leave John says go on without me and holding Day’s mask puts it on and runs into the officials. The officials escort him to the firing squad arena were he is shot and killed. John showed compassion by dying in place for his criminal brother, Day, because he wants his brother to live.
An example of compassion could be in the book “Harry Potter The Chamber of Secrets” Harry was showing compassion to Giny by helping her get out of Voldemorts lair. Harry went down the chamber, and showed Giny that someone actually cares about her by fighting the Serpent. He did something that anybody else at Hogwarts was afraid to do. Harry helps people to show them that their not alone in this world. Somebody will always be their for you.
In an episode of Dr. Who, the Doctor had to destroy the city of Pompeii to save the world, and showed no compassion to the the people of Pompeii until his companion told him to have mercy. He showed compassion by saving a family and he comes back to his senses and stops being the “hard choice maker” like he was for that episode.
In James Dashner’s The Maze Runner, Thomas shows compassion by protecting Teresa on their way to the griever hole to escape from the Glade. Teresa is almost stung by a griever, which can be fatal until Thomas saves her and they escape from the Glade. Without Thomas’ compassion, Teresa would probably even be dead.
In “The Walking Dead,” a TV show about life after the zombie apacalypse, the main character, Rick Grimes, shows compassion for a runaway named Michonne. He takes her into his somewhat secure refuge so she can avoid the walkers and her shady past. In turn, she saved Rick’s life when he was in grave danger. When Rick showed compassion, he got a favor in return, a favor that saved his life.
Another time compassion was shown, Michonne was living fine on her own, until she saved Andrea and took her In for the winter when she was sick and lost from her group. She became healthy and Andrea was saved from death.
In the series Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan, The main character Darren shows compassion to a vampire named Mr. Crepsly. By becoming his assistant and being a creature of the night.
*Spoilers* In Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien, Frodo DOESN’T show Sam compassion, and leaves him on the steps of Cirith Ungol. Sam disobeys him and follows him in secret, eventually saving him from Shelob and many Orcs. Had Frodo showed Sam compassion, Sam could have helped Frodo much earlier and they maybe wouldn’t have gotten captured by the orcs. Sam could even dispatch of Gollum, totally changing the ending of the book for better or for worse.
In Enders Game by Orson Scott Card, Enders shows compassion to Bean when the bullies were bullying him. Ender made the bully embarrassed by writing out messages to everyone saying that the bully likes looking at Beans butt. If Ender didn’t do it, Bean would have kept getting bullied and the book would have turned out different.
In Charles Dickens a Chrstmas Choral Freddy showed compassion to Scrooge. Evan though Scrooge was a mean heart less person. He wants Scrooge to come over for dinner. Freddy felt bad of him because nobody liked him because he was so grumpy and soul less.
In Ender’s Game by Orson Scott, Valentine showed compassion to Ender when he went back to Earth after he felt like a monster and felt sickened by his actions. Valentine came to Ender at his lowest time and showed him compassion to keep moving. This changed the whole direction of the book. After this Ender went back up into space to command school.
This is kinda like the book Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White nobody ever showed Wilbur and kindness and never gave him a second thought except for one person and that person was Fern. She was the only one who knew what he felt like and she helped him when nobody else would and she helped him grow and feed him and read to him and she even tried to take him to school with her! She showed a very unique type of compassion that made them have a special bond with each other that could never be broken.
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol Scrooge shows compassion for tiny Tim when he see in the Christmas of future he sees that tiny Tim dies so when he woke up he bought them a turkey for tiny Tim’s family and acts like a second father to tiny Tim and becomes more of uncle to Freddy and donate money to charity and his family.
In The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan, Peter Jackson’s mom, Sally Jackson shows compassion for Peter when she risks her life bringing Percy to camp Half Blood. She forgets all the monsters that she will try to kill her to Save her son from them.
In Ender’s Game by: Orson Scott Card, The reason that Ender plays the games so well is that he can understand the enemy with compassion. Ender’s compassion for the buggers allows for him to make up for destroying their race by giving them a chance to start again. Also, the buggers show compassion to Ender, and this convinces him that he must make it his mission to see that their queen finds a safe home to lay her egg. In Ender’s Game compassion provides hope for the future.
In the book Divergent by Veronca Roth, Four (Tobias) shows compassion to Tris (Beatrice) by taking her under his wing and teaching her the skills on becoming Dauntless and helps her deal with her fears and the fact that she is divergent (and Jeanine Mathhews is trying to kill her and all the other Divergent). Four reaveal himself to her and she finds out he is also Divergent.
Four also ends up having a transformation himself. By showing compassion between Four and Tris, Four becomes a genuinely nicer guy and realizes it’s ok to show emotion unlike before when he is bitter and mean because of his brutal childhood.
( Beauty and The Beast, written by Linda Woolverton) the beast was a very unkind person so a which casted a spell on him and turned him into a big beast. No one liked the him, then one day a girl named Bell met him and showed him compassion.
In a Christmas carol. Scrooge feels compassion for the cratchits and transforms a little bit himself.
The Purge is the movie where the goverment shuts down for one night and people are allowed to do whatever crime they want to. The boy Shows compassion for a man that’s screaming outside of his house and lets him inside not knowing that someone wants to kill the man! People come to the boy’s house and and ask for the man. The boy and his family don’t let them in. If the boy wouldn’t have shown compassion for the man that was screaming outside his house, his family wouldn’t be in danger!
In Charles dickens a Christmas carol, Scrooge starts to feel compassion for the cratchits on Christmas Eve when he sees how much they have to struggle to live and how his harshness on bob effects the families views on him.
The Purge is the movie where the goverment shuts down for one night and people are allowed to do whatever crime they want to. The father shows compassion for a man that’s screaming outside of his house and lets him inside not knowing that someone wants to kill the man! People come to the mans house and and ask for the man that they saved. The father and his family don’t let them in. So the people really badly want to kill the man they saved so they are now going to break in the house. Now everyone is in danger. If the man wouldn’t have shown compassion for the man that was screaming outside his house, his family wouldn’t be in danger!
In Les Miserables, written by Victor Hugo, the priest shows compassion to Jean Valjean. When Jean Valjean steels the priest’s silver and is caught by the police. The priest forgives Jean Valjean and the priest tells Jean Valjean that he left too early and forgot the silver candles.
“Prisioner B-3087” by Alan Gratz. One of many evil guards is unjust and unfair to the prisoners and beats and whips them for no reason. But when the main character and starving to death the guard shows compassion and he gives the prisoner half of his loaf.
In the Hunger Games. Katniss shows compassion for Rue. They were working together trying to find food and hope to not get killed. As Rue was berry picking she stepped on a rope trap and was hung and was a perfect shot to kill. Katniss ran back but it was to late. Rue was dead. Katniss sang to her death. Then she built a beautiful grave for Rue. As she walked away she never turned back. The ship came and abducted her and was gone within seconds. Although this is a fictional story, Katniss still shows compassion for another person.
In the Christmas Carol, Scrooge feels compassion for his emplyee Bob after the 3 ghosts show him how he should think of other people instead of only thinking about himself. After he speaks with the ghosts, he raises bob’s salary and buys him and his poor famliy a large christmas turkey to enjoy their famliy time together. Scrooge realizes that people in the world need help and he steps up to give money to charities and raise money for the poor.
In the movie Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader feels compassion for his son, Luke. This compassion turned the evil Darth Vader to the light side, so he could save his son. Also, in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, it is Anakin’s compassion for Padme that leads to him turning into Darth Vader he is so desperate to save his love Padme from any danger that it is his flat for her death.
(Beauty and the Beast, written by:Linda Woolverton) There was this mean guy that turned into the beast that on one loved in till one day when,a nice pretty girl, Bell showed up and gave him compassion.
In the movie Warm Bodies, Julie show compassion to a zombie who saved her life named R. She treats him like a human instead of putting a bullet through his head. He felt loved and ending up gaining back his heartbeat. He was changed from a lifeless, cold-hearted animal into a caring human being. The story very much resembles Romeo and Juliet.
In the movie Frozen, Anna shows compassion to her sister Elsa by risking her life to save her, but becomes frozen after Elsa accidently used her powers, the ability to create snow and ice, on her. This act of compassion however was enough to thaw Anna, and Elsa learned that love was the way to control her powers.
In The Princess And The Frog, the princess shows compassion to the frog by kissing him. If she hadn’t of done that, than the prince would have been stuck as a frog forever. This act of kindness shows that you would do anything for the ones that you love.
In Flint by Louis L’amour Nancy Karigan showed Compassion to Kettleman by helping letting him stay at her farm for safety. In turn Kettleman helped Nancy Fight off a Big Conman that was trying to take her land.if she did not show him compassion he would have left her to lose the land not carrying .
In The Hunger Games Peeta shows compassion to Catniss Everdeen when the game makers go back on their word and say there can only be one victor. He offers her victory by telling her to kill him. Thankfully they both attempt suicide but the game makers have to have a victor so they both live.
In The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien Frodo Baggins shows compassion towards the creature called Gollum (or Smeagol) by seeing the good in him. Since Frodo has had the ring for quite a bit, he understands the pain that Gollum has been through and pities him. Even though Gollum went evil again he broke out of the trance that the ring had had him in through Frodo’s love and compassion for him.
In the movie The Hunger Games, Catniss shows compassion to Rue. Even after Rue died Catniss decorated her dead body with flowers. After that their was an outbreak in District 12 and a full out riot began.
In Charles Dickens The Christmas Caorl, scrooge was a cold harted man and then begant to chang when the ghost of christmas past showed him the past and the futrture.
In Ender’s Shadow, Poke, a gang leader in Rotterdam, gives Bean, a starving brilliant two-year old, six peanuts. This scrap of food gave Bean life- as he would of starved to death within minutes. This single act of kindness gave Bean the strength to change the live of Poke and her gang for the better. Her compassion for Bean saved his life and let him do amazing things.
Blood red road by Moira Young. Suba shows compassion when she fights for him when he was getting taken by four cloaked horsemen, some of the ton ton and tells him that she will find him. She goes on this crazy adventure and finally finds him.
In the movie The Hunger Games Katniss shows compassion to Rue instead of killing her she protected Rue during the fight. Even after Rue’s death Katniss missed her and felt guilty.
In the movie The Hunger Games by Susan Collins, Katniss knew that Rue was to weak to fight in the games. She guarded her all that she could. The point of the games is to be the only one that survives. Katniss shows compassion and tries to save Rue. Once Rue got killed Katniss felt guilty and missed her.
In the series called The Mortal Instuments (by Cassandra Clare) Jace, even though he loves Clary, leaves her to go and kill the main antagonist, Valentine. He showed compassion because even though it hurt him to leave her and tell her that he wouldn’t come back, he leaves to save everybody.
In the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Katniss shows compassion towards Peta when he gets hurt. He gets stabbed and Katniss nurces him back to health. They become allies and win the games together!