Explaining a little empathy is when the reader closely understands what the character feels. For example, Kolb kept a mental list of comments that are made when he first interacts with people. It states: “I don't know what to do with my hands. It's like you just discovered you have them, are you sure it's okay to point them out? With him?, I'm trying to be more expressive. My face just looks like it can't, it feels weird, how can your eyes absorb so much information, so quickly?, I feel uncomfortable. I have the sensation that he is looking at me” (The deaf body in public space). If someone said these comments to me, I would be very upset because their only way of communicating is through signs and they have to take the time to understand what they go through every day. Whenever Kolb meets someone for the first time he comes across comments like these. Argumentation aims to convince a reasonable critic of the acceptability of a point of view by proposing a constellation of one or more propositions to justify this point of view (What is argumentation?). At the beginning of the article one of Kolb's friends said it was rude to point him out. Kolb had to justify the fact that his mother said he could do it since it was his only way of communicating. In response he said he was signing and he wasn't
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