Now, I'm reading one of the best books I've ever read. Is "The Help", by Kathryn Stockett.
There is a scene, on the begginin of the book, when the rich white ladies are playing cards, where Miss Skeeter is sarcastic to Miss Hilly, and at same time demonstrated empathy for the black maid that work in the house:
"(...) Miss Skeeter look real confused. 'The Home... the what?'
'A bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom flr the colored help. I've even notified the surgeon general of Mississippi to see if he'll endorse the idea. I pass'
Miss Skeeter, she frowning at Miss Hilly. She set her cards down faceup and say real matter-a-fact, 'Maybe we ought to just build you a bathroom outside, Hilly' (...)"
Skeeter was sarcastic but at same time demonstraded empathy for those black women who worked in everybody houses, that they used to change children's diapers, but they couldn' t use the bathroom in the house. Skeeter just showed empathy for the maid, the maid who is not even her maid.
...She is a character in a book, and with this book I learned a lot of empathy. And that we should think more about others, not only about us or about our confort zone, but give up our confort zone to help others. Or maybe just to be realist and tell the other lady that the idea was stupid...
