Lazy, serious; hard-working, barley working; serious, jolly. Each set of adjectives are antonyms and describe two characters’ personality from the novel Lonesome Dove by Larry McMutry, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call. These two characters are totally opposite of each other but ones personality convers for the others. They were both mighty rangers that protected Texas from Indians and Mexican bandits. However as time goes on, Augustus mellows out but Call continues to live his life as a captain of the rangers he led with Augustus.
The movie “Lonesome Dove” and the real lives of Oliver Loving and Charles Goodnight are very similar. In the movie Gus is Oliver Loving and Woodrow is Charles Goodnight. Charles Goodnight was a ranger in real life just like Woodrow was in the movie. The cattle drive in the movie they crossed Indian territories. When they were blazing the trail they crossed Indian territories in real life.
Love is unconditionally caring about someone else that you care more about yourself. Love may give us joy, and happiness, but it also brings the worse out in us. In Celeste Rita Baker’s short story Jumbie from Bordeaux, the author presents love and the price paid for love through the indirect characterization of Jumbie, his aunt, and parents. In the story the author uses courage to show the love that Jumbie had for his parents. For example, when Jumbie witnesses the harsh beating of his parents, he immediately jumps in to interfere, by attacking the master.
Love is a mystery for many people, everyone has their views on what love should be and it is way more than just a definition in a dictionary. Love takes patience and time and not just forcing to find it. In the story, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurstone, the main character Janie Crawford is raised by her grandmother who forces her to marry an older wealthy man. Janie 's realizes that isn’t what true love is and runs off with another man called Jodie. After many years she realizes that marriage didn’t work out either, after Jodies dies she meets a man called TeaCake who she falls for and runs away with.
In the novel Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward, love is highlighted as exclusiveness in some cases, and in other cases is shown as both constructive and destructive to different relationships. In Michael and Leoni’s instance, their relationship is toxic and exclusive. This means that they can’t find anyone else to be with when they are feeling empty or distressed. In Jojo and Kayla and Jojo and Pop’s instance, their relationships are positive. Kayla lacks a mother figure and a guardian, so Jojo works to support her.
Leon Rooke shares the quality of love in his short story, “A Bolt of White Cloth”. Rooke shows that love has the ability to produce the greatest happiness in the lives of people, but hardships must follow in order to achieve this love. Love comes in many forms as it is an emotion that can be expressed differently varying from person to person. Rooke uses magical realism by introducing an Eastern stranger that sells white cloth with magical qualities. The price, however, is love.
In Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurty does an outstanding job of really grabbing the reader's attention for many reasons. McMurty captures the emotional feelings of the audience to feel sympathy for the character to keeping you on the edge of your seat in suspense on what will happen next. He does this through a smooth rotation of scene to scene not making anything confusing to the audience. McMurty has a perfect balance of characters in his story from our few protagonist character such as Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, to a few antagonist characters like Blue Duck and Dan Suggs. Through Lonesome Dove, McMurty captures the feelings of people who are in to westerns, drama, and action.
As Janie sees “a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom”, she witnesses the “thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom.” (Hurston 11) To her, this is deemed “marriage” ; it is a merger of two, a union of matrimony and she aims to fully grasp such a sensation. Taken back by the thrill of it all, Janie manages to formulate her own perceptions of what true love must be like; raw and passionate within the moment, like the bees and pear blossoms. Elated at most, she then shares a brief moment with neighborhood-friendly, Johnny Taylor, a young man who she begins to develop sexual feelings for.
“Real love isn't just a euphoric, spontaneous feeling—it's a deliberate choice—a plan to love each other…” - Seth Adam Smith. Within MAAN it’s displayed through all of the characters that everyone experiences love. Benedick and Beatrice are dismissive of love in their lives, then Hero and Claudio are embracive of it. People are always changing their mind and ideas, they’re choosing what they want to do. The characters are choosing who they want to love, or if they want to love.
In To Kill A Mockingbird, the love in the story is not romantic, but rather more about the bonds between family and friends. This includes the love for the family, loving friends, and loving a community or culture. The love for friends is in Dill’s actions to run away to the Finch house. The most noticeable type of love in the book is family love. Atticus loves his children dearly and they love him in return.
Love affects us all in different ways, and throughout the film “harold and Maude” we the audience get to this in Harold. The friendship and romance between HArold and Maude affects and changes the character of Harold. In the beginning of the film Harold’s character is very dark and depressing. The outfits that Harold would wear was mostly only dark clothing.
The short story “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” by Raymond Carver is about four friends- Laura, Mel, Nick, and Terri, gathering on a table and having a conversation. As they start to drink, the subject abruptly comes to “love.” Then, the main topic of their conversation becomes to find the definition of love, in other word to define what exactly love means. However, at the end, they cannot find out the definition of love even though they talk on the subject for a day long. Raymond Carver in “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” illustrates the difficulty of defining love by using symbols such as heart, gin, and the sunlight.
In Geoffrey Chaucer’s, The Canterbury Tales, throughout the twenty-four astonishing short stories, the author emphasizes on the importance of love and the institution of marriage throughout the stories. Geoffrey Chaucer, a devout Christian often referred to the Bible in his works. The Bible presents marriage as an institution, rather than a human origin, due to Geoffrey Chaucer’s strong belief in Christianity, he highlights these themes. The readers see this during both, The Knight’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale. Chaucer emphasizes on the fact that love is worth fighting for in these stories.
As mentioned before, It Happened One Night was the pinnacle of screwball comedies. The story is about a spoilt heiress, Ellen Andrews (Claudette Colbert), who runs away from home after rebelling against her father (Waler Connolly) and marries an infamous celebrity King Westley. She tries to get reunited with him throughout the film but meets a witty and recently fired reporter Peter Warne (Clark Gable) and falls in love with him. In the end Ellie ends up eloping again from her own wedding but this time, for Peter.
Twilight novel shows more differences than similarities from the old vampire literature. In Twilight, the main characters are good vampires. They have several human qualities and a conscience that sets them apart from the traditional vampires than were more supernatural beings than humans and with no conscience. Meyer has created vampire characters that make the main vampires more like humans by passing on human characteristics into their life of vampires. Consequently, there is a thin line between the world of the vampires and the real world.
