Dancer, Vickie Sears
I chose "Dancer", by Vickie Sears.This short story tells us a foster kid that came to live with a family, and the family takes her to see a ballet dance and the kid gets really impressed and decide to go to dance classes. Her new family helps her, and in the end of this story, she dances with the dancer she liked when she first went to see the dance.
I think is a good story to relate to Empathy, because the foster kid's new family accept her in their life, and they have to have respect and empathy with her. They get to know her, and in the end, even her and her new mom gets to learn something. They both learn with each other, and that is why Empathy is so important, because you learn with others problems.
"Some foster kids come with lots of stuffs, but she came with everything she had in a paper bag. Some dresses that was too short. A pair of pants barely holding a crotch. A pile of ratty underwear and one new nightgown."
But the stories goes and there is a part that is very interesting, where
the new foster kid, Clarissa, demonstrates no empathy for the cat:
"We'd all gather up and go to the school. I was thinking on leaving her
home with a sitter cause she'd tried to kill one of the cats a couple of
days before. We'd had us a big talk and she was grounded, but, well, it
seemed like she ought to be with us"
Reading this part of the story, I felt sorry for her. The girl that has anything, going to a new family, alone in the world. Especially when I think I have everything I always wanted, then we look to this people, and I can not help feel sorry for them....
