Marissa’s Comments (group member since Oct 29, 2013)

Marissa’s comments from the Miles' AP Lang group.

I think reading does increase empathy. While reading something, you tend to think more about how a certain character feel towards one another in a certain situation. Without thinking, you start to connect it to your life and you may see how a character is hurt from another doing an insulting action. This may cause you how to rethink your own situation. When I was in about 5th grade, I read the series How To Survive Middle School by Nancy Krulik. Even today as a junior in high school I think of these books and how the main character Jenny gets bullied and "out done" by another girl at school. I think of how mean the girls were to each other and how pointless that really is. This shows that reading can increase empathy towards others.