sympathy, empathy and judgment

After reading the end of chapter four and all of chapter five, I got to find out why we were talking about those three words in class. Sympathy. We all felt sympathy when we read the page in chapter five that was about Holden's little brother. I sympathized with Holden because I thought it was really sad that he lost his brother to leukemia. It kind of hits you when you read his way of telling us that he punched all of the windows out in the garage. Empathy though, I do not feel. I have never lost a close loved one, so I would not be able empathize with Holden. Judgment though, weather it is on purpose or not, I think that we all did it just a little bit at least when reading more about Ackley and his lack of hygiene. The way that Holden describes it tells us that he is mainly grossed about it more than anything. When we read it from that perspective, it makes us think that way about Ackley, too. I think that it is the same with Stradlater. We think that he is full of himself and also very handsome. That is mainly because of the point of view or the perspective that we are reading all of the descriptions of the events that happen from.