Carmen Ramirez Dr. Lee English 1302- 7:30 am August 5, 2014 The Smallest Things Can Make A Difference I have chosen to study “Post-Its (Notes on Marriage)” by Winnie Holzman and Paul Dooley. This is a short drama in which a man and a woman go through some ups and downs in their relationship and it is being told by the post-it notes they left for each other. I believe this piece of literature is important because it shows the little details in a person’s life and how they add up together. It is a great example in how such few little details can add up to how much you love someone. I have chosen this because I enjoy drama, character development, and it’s ending. This is a drama that may seem “basic” but it holds so much depth in it …show more content…
These characters grow as they suffer through marriage problems. When the woman leaves the man, which lets him learn his mistakes and to be grateful for the things they had. He writes, “Things to tell her. That I’m sorry. That I miss her. That all I want-all I ever wanted-is for her to be happy” (Dooley and Holzman 3). The man has learned and developed into a greater human being. Third reason I chose this was because it’s a love story with a realistic happy ending. I am a sucker for romance and honestly this hit the spot and made my heart feel all warm and fuzzy. The characters grew old with each other. Isn’t that what everyone hopes for in life? To find someone that will deal with them until the day they die? Well they did. The man has the last post-it, in which he writes, “You saved every Post-It I ever wrote you. I wish I’d saved yours. I could be reading them now. (Beat.) Back soon. Going to the store. We need milk ” (Dolley and Holzman 4). Ever lasting love is shown in this post-it. This drama is touching to the heart as both the man and woman grow in their relationship. It shows meaning to the fact that life goes on no matter what happens and that things do get better. This story means so much because it shows that even through small communication so much is said. People need to remember what it is like to communicate and to remember that in the end it was all worth it. Works Cited Page Dooley, Paul, and Winnie Holzman. "Post-Its
Although Frankie indirectly suffers due to his father’s actions, the two can enjoy their time together. This relationship implores the reader to frame the world as Frankie does because doing so allows one to improve his/her life. The fact that the overarching theme of the passage is love allows one to conclude that the author has achieved the goals of Faulkner’s mission because the reader can endure and prevail by following McCourt’s message.
Desperate and tries to make it better. Carver creates a pressure of what happens to a rigid marriage after it collapses.
In conclusion, reading It Would Be Different If people can appreciate how the author expressed her emotions. She was surprised, saw all her dreamer broken, and felt betrayed when discovered her lover infidelity. That experience can occur to any of us. The point is to know how to drive the situation in the correct way. People have to respect each other, be confidential, believe, and build their future in hard bases. Thinking that all have a solution in life except the death, being a positive person helps you to resolve a problem and being a successful person are values that I learn with this
Overall, the narrative was great. The conflict of the narrator’s struggles with expressing emotions is well established in the Preface: “It Could All Be So Easy” and is addressed directly in the “Mom’s Quiet Voice” with the narrator wishing she could had verbally expressed how much she loved her grandfather. The writer’s voice is consistent throughout the narrative: blunt and candid, especially in the last paragraph of the Preface. “Why can’t people just say what the fuck they mean? Is it that hard to admit you need someone, and you love them, and neither they or you are alone in the world? Isn’t that what they want to hear anyway?” The use of rhetorical questions helps to illustrate the narrator’s attitude about the conflict. The tone
At first, when the movie showed the past details of the characters, it was boring. You cannot appreciate the movie if you don’t reach the end part. It portrayed an old man whose love to her wife is measured till eternity. Love was a never ending journey. Loving her wife is part of his life. As long as his heart is still beating, love still survives. To his last breath, he still shared his love to her wife.
There’s a wide range of items that we deem to be important and even considered to be a favorite by our set standards that we have may. Whatever it may be, may as well support any ideals or beliefs that we hold close and dear to our hearts especially when it’s appealing directly to us. Pieces like “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot, “Birches” by Robert Frost, and “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, are all texts that I found to be my favorite texts from the duration of second semester. All three were thought provoking and they were able to shed some light on what the older times were like in perspective with the massive technological advanced era that we are in today. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, “Birches”, and, “Everyday Use” are all associated
The theme of the story is about love, attraction and responding to obstacles in the course of love. It is true that the course of true love does not run smoothly and this strikes at the heart chords of all who reads it.
In summary, this is a story that should be told. It provides an emotional journey for the characters, as well as for the
Reading this extremely descriptive book about the torment that this young man had to go through is kind of like reading a diary entry that stemmed from a failed high school relationship. Except in this case, someone else is writing this story about heartbreak. The author digs deep into the feelings and the underlying meaning behind the story of this young man and it almost seems as though they are experimenting or gathering data. In fact, it states that they are an observer in this short drama. While this book is full of serious topics and it is very dense literature, it seems to portray some sort of farce. The story of the guy from the author’s own point of view is way too dramatic for what it really is, but when taken seriously it shows us what he is going through. Life itself is a farce and we must live with some ethical reasoning and purpose, but sometimes we overanalyze a situation and we need God’s guidance for keeping us in our track. The first part of the story describes what repetition and recollection is and why it is so important. It introduces us to the dilemma of a young man who cannot seem to understand his break up with his girlfriend, to put it simply. The second part describes how he deals and finds meaning in his struggles through the story of Job and how he learns to move on.
Not only is there beauty in the love of their past relationship, but also a cruel beauty in the tragedy of being separated from her
Finally the protagonist’s return to sanity and to human existence is marked by her recognition that she must have food and shelter to survive and that she is neither animal nor primitive god and is therefore incapable of living alone in the wilderness. To live she decides is a responsibility to her parents, to society, to herself. She wants her baby to be the ‘first true human’. She refuses to be a victim and stop thinking that she is powerless. The narrator recognizes her past problems with Joe and wants to solve it by avoiding each other and began to talk so she is no longer inclined to have imperfect relationship and predictable failures. It is on this note that the novel ends. It is full of hope.
In the story we learn the toughts and voice of a husband who finds out that his wife previous love of her life still remains a huge part of her life,even tough this man no longer physically esxist he is still in his wifes toughts,how she has not been able to overcome that lost,and how this affects this character,his ego and how he learns to deal with the issue.
On November 14th 1969: Slate, gusty clouds storm the ocean coral blue skies glistening above. Raindrops hit the pitch back driveway holding my blue BMW convertible. On the few days it tends to rain on a yearly basis in LA, it just has to be today: the day of my wedding. Stefan suggested we’d just proceed with the ceremony, but deep down, I had always pictured my wedding day as one of the most alluring and captivating days of my life. A beautiful bride prancing down the narrow aisle, as the entire world's attention and focus seems to revolve around the only two people that mattered for more than just a minute: the bride and the groom. I didn’t want it to appear as one of those self-centered occasions, but I figured every female was equitable to that one day they’d never forget prior and posterior to that significant event that often only occurs once in a lifetime; and undoubtedly that day would have been today. I certainly wasn’t looking forward to a day captivated in a dimmered building with creaky-rusted chairs and booths. Imagining violet-pink hydrangeas encircling the trail leaving behind the separation of two soulmates and bringing forth the unison of two souls who were once broken hearted, but bonded through conceptions and compatible intentions forming advantageous intonations. My fabrication had always seemed too “wild to possess,” my mother had always described it as. Though, every 25-year old kid was susceptible to the most inordinate imaginations and a sense of
In this novella, Ethan Frome, the protagonist, was just a student until his father departed, which led to the halt of his studies and to his newly gained job at the farm. He is able to care of the farm which the help of his wife, Zeena, who is the antagonist of the story. When Ethan’s mother departed, Mattie Silver moved in with Zeena and Ethan, due to the fact that her parents had also passed away. The conflict develops into a stereotypical love triangle as Ethan and Mattie begin to fall in love with each other, but Zeena, who still has feelings for her husband, develops feelings of hatred towards Mattie. The Frome’s marriage is now held by a mere string, as Mattie and Ethan develop feelings for each other, which creates a lot of tension between the three
On her way to her office she thinks of where they are now. They seem to be in a good place and she is okay with that. She still wishes sometimes that he would love her as she loves him. She has resigned herself to the fact that may never happen. It probably won’t ever happen.