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Theme Of Compassion Essay

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Writing about the novel: Compassion is sympathetic pity and concern for others. Compassion is important because it is a timeless quality needed to try to make the world a better place.In the story Kit shows compassion a lot throughout the story.One way kit showed compassion was when she jumped into the ocean to get the little girl’s doll that she dropped in, even though the other people on the boat disapproved her jumping in.Kit also showed compassion when she taught Prudence how to read even though she knew Prudence’s mom disapproved.Kit taught Prudence out of compassion, not to go against Prudence’s mom’s wishes.Another way Kit showed compassion was when she would go visit Hannah to help her and keep her company, even though her uncle told …show more content…

Kit was loyal to Prudence. Kit taught her how to read and write and didn’t give her away at the trial. Kit was loyal to the Wood family. When they were ill Kit would take care of them and their home.

Read and Write: Margot and Kit were a lot alike, both experienced similar things. Margot and Kit were both the fish out of water. They both had to move somewhere, they were both outcasts and both of them were not trusted. Kit moved from Barbados to a small town in Connecticut because her grandfather died and she was being forced into marriage. Margot moved from Ohio on Earth to Venus. Kit was different than the people in Connecticut, Kit wore fancy bright clothes and grew up in royalty. People in Connecticut wore drabby dull clothes and spent their time working and doing chores. Most of Connecticut did not trust Kit. Kit would tell and try to prove the townspeople that Hannah was not a witch but they did not believe her and still tried to burn down Hannah’s house. All of Margot’s classmates did not believe her when she said the sun looked like a

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