In the short story “A Bolt of White Cloth,” Leon Rooke develops on the idea that love is a weakness that clouds and blinds the thoughts. The woman is intrigued by the travellers cloth and does not notice that she is being blinded by it. She does not notice her husband and is so in love with her new cloth that everything else fades away. “You could have knocked me over with a feather when she up and kissed him full on the mouth, with a nice hug to boot.” (Page 60).
“I’m working a part-time job at Wendy’s.” Ordinarily, what is the first thought that comes to your head when you hear this sentence? Greasy fries, polyester uniforms, dollar menu food? Now, what about the people who work there? Do you picture a first-time worker, a high school dropout, other pimply-faced employee taking your order?
Massive Retaliation is the threat of using nuclear weapons against the Soviets if they tried to seize a country not occupied by them and/or tried to expand there country by force. While Brinkmanship was the threat of using nuclear weapons to get an opposing country to back down/consed, Eisenhower used these effectively in the Korean war but there were saw as too dangerous. He used these to easily dispose of the Korean threat by threatening the use of nukes, and all the while, kept communism from spreading into Korea.
I read the historical fiction book Woods Runner written by Gary Paulsen,which takes place during the Revolutionary War Era. The main character, Samuel, is thirteen years old. He lives in a colony with a forest west of it. One day he is out in the forest and he sees smoke rising from where the colony is located. The colony where he and his parents lived,had been attacked.
After falling madly in love with a young woman, dubbed Alejandra, young John Grady insists on doing anything he can for her. After being invited to the residence of Alejandra’s aunt, John Grady asks “What do you want me to do?” (McCarthy 115) to which the aunt says “I want you to be considerate of a young girl's reputation.” (McCarthy 115) From where the conversation continues “I never meant not to be.
A moment of truth can be like if I just applied for a job, and the moment of truth is if you get the job or not. Many stories and movies have examples of moments of truth, just like in The Hunger Games. In the texts Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonneggut, and Tequila Worm by Viola Canales, characters experience moments of truth that change their lives. In the story, Tequila Worm by Viola Canales, Sofia goes through a main event that has several effects on their life. In this story, Sofia is embarrassed to be Mexican and eat tacos at lunch.
John is a book by Gary Paulsen. The book teaches many themes. Three themes I enjoy the most are leadership, freedom, and getting along with others. Getting along with others is a big deal. In John, Waller uses fear and intimidation.
1 - The most fascinating part of Dagoberto Gilb 's story Love in L.A. is the manner by which practical it truly is. By and large, romantic tales take after the conventional example of two outsiders meeting, beginning to look all starry eyed at and living joyfully a great many. Love in L.A in no way, shape or form takes after this example. Numerous genuine sentimental relations don 't take after this example either. Not following the example, in any case, does not preclude Love in L.A. from being a romantic tale.
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.
William Shakespeare’s “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun” shows that ulterior motives for love can also refer to personality and non physical features of a person. Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People” and William Shakespeare’s “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun”, show that love can be influenced by an ulterior motive, through the use of specific word choice and storyline
Janie has many encounters with men where she felt love but she couldn’t maintain them. Her first husband held no love but rather only respect for Janie. The first husband was a gateway to her second lover, Jody. Jody loved Janie and she to him but as time progressed his ambitions destroyed what they had previously cherished.
For many people love is such a special thing in our lives it's something that most of us strive for us in our lives. Whether it's love from just one person, our kids, family, or just friend in our lives. In the Chaser by John Collier there are different points of view about love the way they perceive love is different the main characters each have their own view. There is the view of love being cheap and a view of love being something that they want from that one special person in their lives. Some people see love as a positive thing and others have very negative views about what love is or could be.
An unreliable narrator is someone who we as the readers can’t fully trust, usually because of their personality, obvious bias, or in the case of “The Yellow Wallpaper”, a mental illness. Any reason that would cause us to question the validity of a narrator's opinion within the context of the story might be filed under unreliable. We take what these narrators tell us with a grain of salt because we know their view of the world is influenced by something else. The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms defines unreliable narrator as “a narrator whose accounts of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted, so that it departs from the 'true' understanding of events shared between the reader and the implied author. The discrepancy between the unreliable narrator's view of events and the view that readers suspect to be more accurate creates a sense of irony”.
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.
The short story “Sucker” by Carson McCullers portrays the one-sided admiration expressed by the main character’s younger cousin, Richard, towards him, as well as his own towards his crush. McCullers conveys the idea of the story through characterization and irony of the way the main character, Pete’s treatment of Richard, previously referred to as Sucker, parallels the treatment he received from his crush, Maybelle. Pete consistently took advantage of Richard because he was always eager to please his older brother figure, much like Maybelle was only nice to Pete as long as he was useful to her. In the end, after losing both his love interest and the respect of Richard, Pete learns that those who are cruel to others typically do so because they remind them of themselves. Characterization plays a large role in the development of the theme.
