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The Harvest Gypsies Character Analysis

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The author John Steinbeck best evokes empathy and compassion in an audience with his story The Harvest Gypsies more than other authors. The authors Kevin Starr and James Weldon Johnson have evoked empathy in the audience with their stories but were not as strong. The stories that will be compared to The Harvest Gypsies are titled Lift Every Voice and Sing by Kevin Starr and Endangered Dreams by James Weldon Johnson. Comparing these stories with John Steinbeck’s story will prove how much empathy there is in the story. In the story Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson is a poetry talking about the hardships African-Americans are facing. The quote “We have come, treading our path thro’ the blood of the slaughtered” can cause

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