All 6 Uses of
compassion
in
Ender's Game
- There was no chance that he would be treated with compassion.†
Chpt 5
- You're too compassionate.†
Chpt 7
- But I'll be watching you, more compassionately than you know, and when the time is right you'll find that I'm your friend, and you are the soldier you want to be.†
Chpt 10
- I'm going to hit you with everything I can imagine, and I will have no mercy, because when you face the buggers they will think of things I can't imagine, and compassion for human beings is impossible for them.†
Chpt 14
- So much compassion that he could win the love of his underlings and work with them like a perfect machine, as perfect as the buggers.†
Chpt 14
- But somebody with that much compassion could never be the killer we needed.
Chpt 14 *compassion = sympathy for another's suffering
Definition:
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(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help