Describe a time you wanted empathy or Sympathy but don’t feel you were getting it. If you would have been given it, how would it have changed the outcome of the situation or helped you deal with the emotional impact better?

When my dog died, I told my friends and they just laughed it off. If I was given sympathy, I would have felt better about it and get over it quicker.

(This is not a real-life situation for me, so you don't have to use it)

the characters in string all have major secrets that they strive to avoid revealing throughout the play.

the word that best matches the meaning of the expression "went to the big ocean" is died.

the goldfish died, which is why the father looks at the children mournfully. the "big ocean" is the father's way of saying fish heaven. he could have just said that the goldfish died, but this way, the children imagine the fish in a bigger, better place instead of just picturing a dead fish.

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