The Forgotten Treasure: A Mother’s Interminable Love Love. Love is like the waves. It can hit you like a tsunami of gaiety and sorrow. But, the delight you get when you are able to ride on it is indescribable; do not get drowned though! It is indescribable for it is profound. As broad as love can be, it is mostly associated with romantic feelings towards the opposite sex. But is that what love is all about? Or are we forgetting something important in regards to love? With the worn-out themes of love, guilt and tragedy; shaped over years and strengthened through literary devices such as characterization, conflict, and mood, Barabara Delinsky comes up with a novel befitting of a bestseller masterpiece, The Secret Between …show more content…
One of which is the Secret Between Us. Delinsky has a very rich background of the current events and the judicial system of the state and country where she lives in because she came from a family of lawyers and because she married a law student at a very young age. As knowledgeable as Delinsky is, she experienced a misfortune at eight years old when her mother departed. The death of her mother did not hinder Barbara to succeed. As a matter of fact, she used that misfortune as a fuel to ignite her writer’s instincts. In her book, The Secret Between Us, she put her experience by stating that the mother of Deborah, the protagonist is already dead. Regarding her novels, as stated by Delinsky, her novels mainly focus on “character-driven studies of marriage, parenthood, sibling rivalry, and friendship. An unshakeable proof to this is her novel, The Secret Between Us which is very consistent in showing the aforementioned …show more content…
McKenna was at the hospital and it was all her fault- and nothing her friends could say would make it better.” (Delinsky, 18) In here, the main conflict which is the dissonance caused by the incident escalates as Grace starts to face social discrimination and social obligations. She starts to feel the weight of the unprecedented accident her stubbornness caused. In here, the sense of guilt is very impregnable. However, the addition of the strong guilt Grace feels, adds more spice to the story and continues to dig further the readers’ hearts and minds. With the mind-blowing conflicts that occurred, the story progresses with readers having greater anticipation and
Elizabeth Tallent explores the innocence and ignorance of young love in her short story, “No One’s a Mystery”. The story opens with the narrator receiving a diary gift for her eighteenth Birthday from her lover Jack. Jack is married and spends his days having an affair with the eighteen-year-old narrator. The story shows their different perspectives on their relationship, where Jack sees it as temporary and the narrator sees a long future in the relationship. Tallent focuses on their conflicting views on the relationship to show that the narrator is blinded by love and cannot foresee the possible end to their relationship. The short story suggests that even when in a toxic relationship love can blur reality. Tallent achieves this thread through the use of symbolism and foreshadowing.
Juxtaposition is used to put two characters side by side and depict the similarities and the differences of them. Within the novel, Ethan Frome, Zeena and Mattie were two contextual characters whose individuality stood out. By studying Zeena’s and Mattie’s attitudes towards life, their roles as women in the late 19th century, their age, appearance, and their treatment of Ethan and each other throughout the novel, the reader can more deeply comprehend not only the similarities and differences of these two characters, but the function their differences serve as well. A person’s attitude towards life determines how successful they will be in life.
The narrator is given a sense of oppression from the beginning of the story by keeping a hidden diary from her husband as “a relief to her mind.” Throughout the story her true thoughts are hidden from the readers and her husband, which gives the story a symbolic perspective.
In our novel, “Tangerine” there are many conflicts that each develop the plot in it’s own way. These conflicts are also diverse in the type of conflict they are, weather it be person vs person, Person vs Self, Person vs Nature, or Person vs Society. In this essay I will Identify three conflicts and describe how they develop the plot. The first in in the entre Monday, August 28 in which Paul is conflicted internally over why he can’t remember staring at the eclipse. I know that this is what Paul is conflicted about because this sentence is included,“If that’s the truth, If that really happened, why can’t I remember It.”
Marry Karr’s The Liars Club is a haunting memoire, depicting a young Texan girls struggle to survive the trials of adolescence in home that finds stability in chaos and comfort in the abusive habits of her parents. Illustrating both fond and painful memoires from her past, Karr paints a complex image of the relationship she shared with her mother; giving readers everywhere the ability to relate and empathizes with the emotional complexity of their mother daughter relationship. This complexity of relationship can be explored in three main ways: the conflicting views Karr formed of her mother, In Karr’s
Love, it is only a 4 letter word, yet it means so much. What exactly does it mean to love? If it were to be searched in a dictionary or online, there are so many different definitions that will come up, that nobody truly knows what love is. So why exactly do we people say it when we don’t even know what it is or how to describe it? People say it’s something that you just feel and no words can explain the feeling. But why exactly should we feel it? In the beginning love will seem like an amazing thing, but by the end of it all, hurt is all you’re left with. Instead of loving someone, just never love, because towards the end of life everybody will lose someone they love, and not loving just saves people from the devastation of a heart break.
Love is a variety of different emotional and mental states, typically strongly and positively experienced, that ranges from deepest interpersonal affection to simple pleasure. This value is precious amongst all humans, it is what makes or breaks us. Not only does love remind us of a time that was relevant or memorable,
Love is said to be one of the most desired things in life. People long for it, search for it, and crave it. It can come in the form of partners, friends, or just simply family. To some, love is something of a necessity in life, where some would rather turn a cold shoulder to it. Love can be the mixture of passion, need, lust, loyalty, and blood. Love can be extraordinary and breathtaking. Love being held so high can also be dangerous. Love can drive people to numerous mad things with it dangerously so full of craze and passion.
Have you ever felt the feeling of butterflies in your stomach or heard the phrase “my heart skipped a beat for you”? As children, we grew up learning from our elders and experiencing new beginnings in life. Much of our knowledge has been brought upon by what we see and hear, rather of what we know. Many important decisions we make in our life has to do with what our feelings show us. Love is an important matter in our life because it motivates us in different ways. Love can be shown through emotions or even through actions. What is a valuable definition of love? A brief definition of love can be said to be a variety of different feelings or attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection to pleasure. In other words, to me love is when
I read the book The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. For this book I will be analyzing how the author's choices brings the text together and how the structure and craft affect my understanding of what constitutes a family. I will be using textual evidence from the story to show how the author’s choices and my further understanding relates to the book and the real world.
In Doris Lessing’s “Through the Tunnel” is a second display of a character dividing themselves from their parents. The protagonist
Love is also the feeling someone has for a job perhaps, for a lobby of the hotel you serve in that always smells just so and has plants hanging from the wall giving the illusion you had just stepped out of a dreary gray, salt-encrusted winter into a touch of the exotic. Or for a hobby, for the grip of a ball, the tension in a muscle, the throw, watching it spin just so to the exact right spot. For rolling a die and dreaming up daring adventures against ancient dragons, or of that risk of gaining or losing it all. For the whoosh of air in free fall from 10,000 feet, or the watery embrace of sea exploring. For healing a sick child, for holding a kite string as it plays upon a wind we've no control over. For
Love is difficult to define, difficult to measure, and difficult to understand. Love is what great writers write about, great singers sing about, and great philosophers ponder. Love is a powerful emotion, for which there is no wrong definition, for it suits each and every person differently. Whether love is between family, friends, or lovers, it is an overwhelming emotion that can be experienced in many different ways.
When asked the question “What is Love?” what are some of the first things that come to mind? Some people might say it is an emotion that we experience when we interact with the world around us. People can have love for many things such as money and other material possessions, family and friends, even the world around them. These are just a few examples of how we often use love in our lives. However, love is not only confined to our lives, it is also a very important emotion in religions as well.
Love has many different meanings to different people. For a child, love is what he or she feels for his mommy and daddy. To teenage boy, love is what he should feel for his girlfriend of the moment, only because she says she loves him. But as we get older and "wiser," love becomes more and more confusing. Along with poets and philosophers, people have been trying to answer that age-old question for centuries: What is love?