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.
In W.H. Auden’s Funeral Blues (pg. 762), the poem takes place shortly after the speaker’s beloved has passed away and shows how the speaker is forever changed by the beloved’s death and that feels that he will never recover. The speaker talks about how he feels that love doesn’t last forever and how he wants the whole world to experience the grief and sorrow he is feeling. In Tim O’Brien’s short story “The Things They Carried” (pg. 433), the story follows Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and his command during the Vietnam War. Lt. Cross constantly spends most of his time fantasizing about a girl named Martha, who he has an unrequited crush. However after witnessing the death of one of his soldiers, while he was preoccupied thinking about Martha, Cross
“Bloodchild” truly defies the traditional view of love while still maintaining elements of love. So then, what exactly is love? It is complicated; that is what Butler is attempting to portray. This story proves that is it vital to view love in ways other than what is told in the collections of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm. It is not always necessary to turn to love between aliens and humans to understand the complexity of love, but the drastic change helps one to understand that love is not always a pretty picture.
“When the individual feels, the community reels.” (Huxley 94). In their society’s view, no human being is important enough for somebody to miss, and when John expresses this natural emotion, he is portrayed as an antagonist that pushes children and delays their conditioning process. Moreover, the reader has a difficult time differentiating whether or not John is ‘the good
In everyday life, there are so many people worth to love and worth for giving them much affection. But have you ever thought, who is your dearest? For everyone, the answer may be grandparents, mothers, siblings or friends. For the boy in McCarthy's novel,"The Road", his father's image will forever be the sacred fire that warms his soul forever. "The Road" written by McCarthy not only about the relationship between a father and his son but also about the contradiction in itself every human.
Ehrlich demonstrates how something as simple as one “I love you” will render a puissant impression. The deprivation of diction to express their feelings following the fragility of their emotions culminates in cowboys or men, in general, becoming unable to “bring their tenderness into the house.” The irony of how such ‘rugged’ men could struggle tremendously with their emotions reveals itself through the elucidation by Gretel
Although, there is still hope for the world where for someone to be born, someone else needs to die. Enough people who rediscover in themselves feelings, who decide to fight, not to die, as per governments rule, and the society may be rebuilt once again, on the basis of the family being the most important, but also the strongest unit of the society. Once Vonnegut asked “what should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Phoenix’s determination to walk the long and dangerous “worn path” demonstrates her powerful love for her grandson. Likewise, Feld’s persistence to obtain a worthy suitor for Miriam reflects this same unconditional love. Moreover, Sobel’s love for Miriam allows him to bear the tedious labor of working for Feld for many years. These two short stories reveal that love can give a person the strength that can enable him or her to continue through hardship and difficulty. “A Worn Path” and “The First Seven Years” are excellent examples of how literature can allow a reader to recognize that his or her tendencies are both natural and universal.
Love connects with, does things with, and does things for, like making compromises and reading together and making difficult ideas simple. It protects through thoughtful teaching (“Don’t say ‘nigger,’ Scout. It’s common”), and provides a place where it is safe to fall miserably short of expectations without being ostracized or teased or maligned. This love stands in another’s shoes, even in Bob Ewell’s. It seeks justice regardless of cost to reputation or image.
“Love is giving your whole self and never holding back.” Everyone will be in a relationship and believe that they love or is in love, someday. In Americanah I believe the characters show how easily it is to think you love your girlfriend/wife or boyfriend/husband, but in reality you only lust for them or desire something from them. This essay is about how I believe Americanah showed a negative view on love and relationships because Ifemelu always had difficult aspects in relationships and didn’t really show love. I believe Americanah is a cautionary tale about the difficulties in relationships and the confusing feeling of love.
Theodore roethke, author of The Lost Son and a poet-in-residence at the University of Washington, writes about an experience late at night with his father in the poem “My Papa’s Waltz”. Roethke cites his father as a major source of influence during his life. His father was a stern man who worked hard in a greenhouse, coming home late at night with his son eagerly waiting. Although at may have seemed to others his father could be an abusive man, that was not at all the case.
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.
When we hear of the word love, we may have experienced it before, but could be a challenge to put it into words, or create a definition of it. “Enduring Love” by Ian McEwan presents many types of “love” throughout its story line, and each of them present distinctive natures of love. It also makes clear of what love is made up of. There are two main love relationships formed throughout the novel.
There are many types of love in life such as romantic, selfless, and religious love. In ‘The Clod and the Pebble’ and ‘Song’ the love is secular and selfless. In both ‘The Clod and the Pebble’ and ‘Song’ love is presented as cruel and selfish, constantly exploiting from their love. There are some similarities between the poems, such as both poems expressing love as being negative using imageries and metaphors. However, there are also significant differences such as ‘The Clod and the Pebble’ giving more balanced view of love than ‘Song’ and ‘The Clod and the Pebble’ presents the love more maturely than ‘Song.’
In T.S. Eliot’s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, he describes the hardships that certain people face in their lives. Through imagery, allusions, and repetition, he supports a message of social struggles and hardships. Overall, the tone of the poem is ironic, romantic, helpless, and timid. T.S. Eliot depicts Prufrock’s environment beginning with an evening that was “spread out against the sky” with “half-deserted streets” and the “restless nights in one-night cheap hotels” in order to show that Prufrock’s image of the world is gloomy, unhappy, and low-spirited.
