On empathy
On NPR this week, Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, posts an essay on the idea of empathy. Using Huckleberry Finn as an example of a character whose empathy trumps difference, she writes that one can enter the world of others through the “magic of imagination.” Writes Nafisi: “I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan child or an Iraqi prisoner, becomes real to me and not just passing news.”
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