Analysis Of Susan Sontag's On Compassion

Humans grow socially and live controlled by the feelings. God gives us a wonderful present, that is a chance to have compassion. We born as a social human, we never could do everything by ourselves lonely, so we need helps each other in lives. For examples, when a child gets lose in the street, and you see her crying laughly there, you will grow a feeling that you need to help her, and make she smiles instead of the cry. That is because we leaned of others and we grow our compassion as well. Susan sontag asserts that people may choose not to look, it means they can make the decision to ignoring something or perceived something. And then, Ascher contends that people can not deny the existence of the helpness as their presence grows, it means
On the beginning of the story, “His buttonless shirt, with one sleeve missing, hangs outside the waist of his baggy trousers.” (46). Ascher uses the description of how homeless man dresses up to illustrate how compassion is necessary in society, and the author also uses what is happening to him in the story to strength the compassion. Do you ever give money to the homeless person when you saw them? Yes, I did. I believe when your compassion grows, and you will want to help some people who need helping. Through this real example of my experience, we also can find out what Ascher said is true. Ascher gives a good example, when she sees the owner of the French bread shop gives a cup of coffee, and a small paper bag of something, it’s compassion of that owner. This event is very impressive, because many people will not stop to give even like 5 cents to a homeless person. This owner in the story, she doesn’t only give a few money to that man, and or chase him gets out of her shop, she takes the time to get some food and a coffee for that homeless man in need of some help. It may be the conditions which finally give birth to empathy, a deeper meaning than compassion. However, Compassion must be learned, and it is learned by the existence of helpless, so if helpness is still, compassion will also grow
On the beginning of story, the author uses example of the shock photograph which use to reduce the percentage of smokers. “- of cancerous lungs, or a strokeclotted brain, or a damaged heart, or a bloody mouth in acute periodontal distress” (373). It affects likely to inspire some smokers to quit. The author considers the important of insight and it could be connected to our behavior. For me, I love to take the pictures, some of myself, some of my friends, family, and mostly I love to save the memory of what I see which is beautiful events. Images control our actions daily. For example, when you drive car and see traffic light turns red, you will stop your car automatic. Also, when you’re in the beach with your family, the images of happiness will lock naturally on your minds and it will make you happy sometimes as you remembered. All memory is individual and it’s the story about how it happened, with the pictures which lock in your minds and control your actions. If you see something good, you will smile, and if you see something bad, you will action according to how bad it is. Sontag considers the relationship between the camera and its subjects, noting that the camera can affect subject behavior. People may choose not to look sometimes, but they still will learn of compassion outside the pictures. Anyhow, As