The Bank Robbery By Steven Schutzman Summary

The poem begins “having a relationship with you”. It sounds the beginning of a sweet poem, because I imagine love to be a positive thing. Then the dangerous scene happens in the story. At the end, Hauser brings her message “i wasn’t killed, but I wouldn't do it again.” It shows the protagonist’s feelings which he or she gets hurt by love and regrets it. In brief, Hauser shows a great theme by applying a sad side of love and tells readers that love is

And when «she knows it's happening: that thing, that connection» between them, when she dances for him and «making him fall in love with her» she says to him: «We've got all we need. We don't need love. Don't diminish yourself – don't reveal yourself as a sentimental sap. You're dying to do it, but don't. Let's not lose this.» (p. 231). She knows she's driving him nuts, she knows that her rejection of his feelings makes him want to attach to her sentimentaly even more. She dances for him and teaches him what life really is. She – a 34-year-old illiterate janitor, teaches him – colledge proffessor, ex-dean, a member of highest rank of society class, what life is all about.

In the poem “Orange” by Gary Soto, the theme of how love can help people overcome obstacles is developed by the symbolism of the oranges. When the speaker discovers that he is short of money on his date, he takes what he has and “an orange, and set them quietly on the counter” causing the saleslady to know “very well what it was all about” (Soto 1). The oranges symbolize the blossoming love that the speaker has for his date because like what they represent, oranges are sweet and have many warm colors and feelings that are connected to his own feelings. As the saleslady sees the orange she knows what it symbolizes so not only does she understand what the speaker wants to trade for, but she also perceives the love that is going on between the

Since the beginning of time people have been intrigued by the story of “two star-crossed lovers”, those who long to be together but never can. Such is the case of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and the collaboration work, West Side Story. The purpose of this paper is to show the similarities and differences between these two tragic love stories.

I seek things that makes sense to me; it could be a person, it could be a feeling, or sometimes it could be a fantasy that I made up in my head. Everyone has these urges, these impulses to find what they are looking for; even if they do not know quite yet what that may be. Our minds, have a way of helping us cope with thoughts or feelings that seem inexorable to understand; by creating pictures in our heads, such as in the play Love Song by John Kolvenbach. The play follows a man name Beane, Beane is unorthodox and lives a desolate life. Besides his sister, Joan, and her husband, Harry, he has no one. Beane uses his mind to create a relationship with a woman named Molly, Beane falls in love with his illusion of Molly, and creates a light in his heart that before was absent. Beane used his illusion that his mind created to make sense of being companionless, Molly helped Bean cope with being alone, she guided him and made him feel important. The play exemplifies how it an instinct to seek things that make sense to us, such as Beane with Molly. Through Beane’s perception of love, the illusion in his mind of Molly, and allowing his apparition of Molly create true love in his heart, he was able to make sense of the person he is.

Since the beginning of human existence love has earned a meaning of pure bliss and wild passion between two people that cannot be broken. Through out time the meaning of love has had its slight shifts but for the most part, maintains a positive value. In the poem “Love Should Grow Up Like a Wild Iris in the Fields,” the author, Susan Griffin expresses that this long lost concept of love is often concealed by the madness of everyday life and reality. In the poem, Griffin uses many literary elements to help convey the importance of true love. The usage of imagery, symbolism, and other literary techniques really help communicate Griffins’ meaning

In both sections, people have a superficial view of the protagonist’s relationship. The women insist that Mrs. Pontellier’s husband is the best; their views, however, fail to take into account any emotional connection between Mrs. and Mr. Pontellier, instead only taking into account the gifts he gives her that she shares with them. They only view the relationship from a material standpoint. The same rings true of Janie’s relationships. The townspeople envy and support her relationship with Jody, outright ignoring his abuse and treatment of her as an object. They only appear to see the material goods he gives and shares with her, the material goods that they themselves desire but yet do not have. On the other hand, they judge a relationship devoid of that material element, outright critical of her dating Tea Cake, ignoring the deep, emotional connection between the two. Through this, I feel that both authors pull on the idea of people only understanding a relationship form a superficial, materialistic standpoint. It brings out the fact that from the outside, many people fail to take into account any true emotional connection between two people. They fail to examine a relationship from a deeper stance. Such occurrences claimed to occur by these authors can be found consistently. Oftentimes, toxic and abusive relationships are idolized or envied because the people

In analyzing the symbolism in “Play-by-Play,” Murray suggests more than expected. “Watching the young men move above the rose garden” (line 20), brings about the conventional meaning of love through the symbol of the rose. However, if one looks at the line as a whole, it could be interpreted as men being above or

In Laura Esquivel’s novel “Like Water for Chocolate”, she skillfully illustrates that love is a powerful that can either make or break us. The author portrays this conflict through The use of descriptive metaphors and indirect symbolism.

True love’s path is paved with every step. Through the assistance of fanciful elements as well as characters Puck and Oberon, the true message of love in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is revealed. The four lovers know the direction in which their hearts are inclined to turn, but when the love potion is administered, the bounds of their rectangle are thrashed without knowledge or consent. The rapid shifts in affection between the play’s “four lovers” is representative of the idea that love isn’t a conscious choice, but a cruel game in which we are the figurines, being controlled by whomever the player may be, relating the characters’ karmic fates.

We live in a society that has increasingly stomped on love, depicting it as cruel, superficial and full of complications. Nowadays it is easy for people to claim that they are in love, even when their actions say otherwise, and it is just as easy to claim that they are not when they really are. Real love is difficult to find and keeping it alive is even harder, especially when one must overcome their own anxieties and uncertainties. This is the main theme present in Russell Banks’ short story “Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story,” as well as in “The Fireman’s Wife,” written by Richard Bausch. These narratives, although similar in some aspects, are completely different types of love stories.

verses reality. The flower’s love juice is causing lovers to blindly fall in love, with the

The woman and man caught in their passionate embrace are set above the wartime images. It seems that symbolically the man and woman are above the war, that their love transcends the tragedy and the tumult that surrounds them, if only because they are fighting their own romantic war. Below them is a burning city. The couple on the carriage fleeing the city looks to be the same couple that is staring into each other’s eyes. This further suggests that they were apart of the events in the war, but were still caught in the throws of their own love life. The girl that rushes from her

Consequently, this picturesque poetic device helped communicate the theme of lost love by helping the reader associate the personas’ thoughts and beliefs with their own.

The Human Condition is a big part of our understanding of literature, it can mean death, acceptance, judgment, and several other diverse things. It is about the positive or negative aspects of humans that everyone all universally deals with at least one time in one’s life. In the novel “The Great Gatsby”, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the short stories Raymond Carver’s “Everything Stuck to Him”, and Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”, all have the most prominent human condition: love. Love is portrayed as society’s primary concern in literature, and is represented as a main concern in today’s society .