Stories are a powerful way to get a message across. In the TED Talk, "If a Story Moves You, Act On It" by Sisonke Msimang, she talks about the limitations of storytelling and how storytelling can help make the world a better place. Msimang claims that justice is what makes the world a better place, not stories. The reason why she says that is because stories usually fail to paint the bigger picture. Although stories don’t make the world the better place, the audience can help by being more curious, and more skeptical about the subject of the story. Without doing so, the reader’s ability to understand and empathize with the subject of the reading will hinder them in making the world a better place.
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It’s the audience job to keep that feeling and act on it. In the book “Empathy: Reading for Writers” edited by Magdalen Powers has a short story called “The Separate Street-Car Law in New Orleans” by A.R Holcombe. The story talks about the “Jim Crow Laws”, which was a law that segregated colored Americans from whites. As one can imagine, how horrible and inhuman it was to have such laws. Holcombe says, “Under the circumstances, the passage of the law was thought to be clearly unnecessary. And, being unnecessary, it was inexpedient, since, without subserving any good purpose” (pg. 101). With the audience becoming more interested in the subject of the reading, the more the audience can get involved, which can help bring light to the story. That’s what happened in New Orleans. The Jim Crow Laws started to get more attention in which eventually ended the unlawful laws. This act of curiosity helped the world become a bit better. If curiosity didn’t get involved, the audience would hinder to imagine how colored people felt about the laws. The audience wouldn’t understand and empathize with the subject of the story. The story would just be left in the
Social Justice can make the world a better place …show more content…
It’s the audience job to keep that feeling and act on it. In the book “Empathy: Reading for Writers” edited by Magdalen Powers has a short story called “The Separate Street-Car Law in New Orleans” by A.R Holcombe. The story talks about the “Jim Crow Laws”, which was a law that segregated colored Americans from whites. As one can imagine, how horrible and inhuman it was to have such laws. Holcombe says, “Under the circumstances, the passage of the law was thought to be clearly unnecessary. And, being unnecessary, it was inexpedient, since, without subserving any good purpose” (pg. 101). With the audience becoming more interested in the subject of the reading, the more the audience can get involved, which can help bring light to the story. That’s what happened in New Orleans. The Jim Crow Laws started to get more attention in which eventually ended the unlawful laws. This act of curiosity helped the world become a bit better. If curiosity didn’t get involved, the audience would hinder to imagine how colored people felt about the laws. The audience wouldn’t understand and empathize with the subject of the story. The story would just be left in the