A Broken Heart

Though fulfilling love, happiness and trust in a relationship can be comforting, couples often are unsuccessful in finding or keeping the love that their relationship need; even if issues may interfere within the relationship, couples should find a way in working through their problems. Once a couple's happiness, trust and love have been fulfilled, they can experience unconditional love. Although they would need to make every possible step to heal their relationship, if and when their relationship breaks down, there is still much they can learn. With this stated this idea holds opposing views among the two females in A Secret Sorrow and "A Sorrowful Woman."

Love is a powerful emotion that every human being has experience at least once in their life. There are numerous connotations that refer to this emotion, but there is only one kind of love that can make a person change completely in unexpected ways. It is the kind of love that consumes the soul and everything within. Mixed with excitement, adventure, heartbreak, happiness and joy; it is a big ball of feelings, all concentrated in one simple, yet extremely complicated necessity to have, protect, please and give all of oneself to that one person. In certain occasions, love can grow very intense and, consequently,

On the other hand for the bag boy such anticipation of the girl’s arrival served as encouragement to show up to work daily despite the long and tedious hours of the job. There was also the possibility for mystery and romance which made him continuously watch the electronic doors for her arrival even more worthwhile. Ironically, when the boy and girl did meet up with each other neither admitted to each other their true feelings about each other. The girl despite noticing the bag boy immediately upon entering the store held her head straight and did not go to his checkout line. The boy on the other hand never once turning his head in her direction yet still watching her from the corner of his eye swallowing back the fear in his throat. Both the bag boy and the girl never once expressed their true feelings for each other despite their obsessive thoughts of each other. Sadly, for both the boy and the girl the very thing that they both sought after (love) lead to the death of any possibilities of them having a future together. Simply because of unspoken words, or true expressions of feelings towards each other. Unspoken love brought nothing but missed opportunities and regrets to both the boy and girl.

     In contrast to these fairly pessimistic views on love, the author describes an instance in which a couple found true love. Mel tells an anecdote of an old couple that was admitted to the emergency room after a very bad car accident. The two people were wrapped up in full body casts, and as a result they could not see each other. Mel noticed that the old man was very sad, even

A Piece of My Heart is about six women who joined Vietnam War as nurses, a Red Cross volunteer, and a USO country-western singer. They need to face to death during the war. After the war, they suffer difference between the truth of Vietnam War and society’s opinion. On the other hand, Yamato is mainly about male soldiers of the Japanese Navy during World War II. Yamato also displays how women who are not in the war think about the war. Yamato is the name of the largest Japanese battleship. When they built this battleship, Japan had been defeated in several areas. At that time, the Japanese government decided to make young men who were 15 to 17 years old join the war.

Unreciprocated romantic feelings that are extremely difficult to control, especially during puberty, a time when one is filled with new and complex emotions they cannot comprehend. As a result we often tend to produce fictional scenarios that cater to our strong feelings. However, one must acknowledge the falsity of his/her imagination. Melanie McCabe’s “Paperboy” uses a vivid sense of imagery to convey the strong emotions of a pubescent girl toward an older boy, despite the fact that the boy will never feel the same way.

The human idea of love is quite possibly the most misunderstood in today’s society. Love can be between a man and woman, mother/father and their kids, or even really good friends. However, these relationships of love go through many interactions and stages to start and progress. Many psychological events must occur and be worked through in order to be successful. All relationships must endure the five perspectives of human behavior. These perspectives are biological, learning, social and cultural, cognitive, and psychodynamic influences.

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.

love – basic human qualities that boys have inside them every bit as much as girls do – get methodically driven out of them by a

“True love is hard to find.” “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”. These words have been told to and heard from family, friends, co-workers and even words in a poem. (A.C. Bradley). These words are said to someone to comfort and express sympathy and understanding to one that is having a relationship issues. Only a lucky few have found true love the very first time love has entered the into their space, some have managed to remain married over forty years or more. Life’s dilemmas interfere with true love from entering the lives of the people that love has touched. Parents protecting their children, worrying about what other think, love not being reciprocated, fell in love too young, self-esteem too low, looking for

The love story is one of the oldest and most cherished traditions in any world culture. The prevalence of romantic works throughout history, whether Greek myths, Jane Austen’s dramatic narratives, or today’s dime-a-dozen romantic novels, ultimately encourages us to believe in the power of true love. We identify with the archetypal star-crossed lovers, who combat established convention in order to assert their romance, because we too yearn for our own “happily-ever-afters.” When used in conjunction with reason, love is the highest form of compassion – without it, we could not possibly interact productively with one another or develop as individuals. But when we take a new perspective and examine love as an independent,

As a boy grows into a man he faces the ever-raising mountain of masculinity. In regards to the occurrence, he finally reaches maturity he has no choice but in order to fight to retain his measly sense of manhood. He is not allowed to act feminine or else he’s not man enough, he can’t show his emotions, he has to hide that he can do anything a woman can do sans give birth. Boys grow up being told they are not allowed to cry and that they are supposed to be tough, that they are not able to be like girls and in the event that they are then they are not real boys. This concept is known as toxic masculinity, some people are not aware that men are being forced to suppress their emotions or even that toxic masculinity should be a topic that is

In this generation, some people do not take relationships seriously. Sandra Cisneros explores the message of women falling in love easily with the wrong men in the stories “One Holy Night,” “Woman hollering Creek” and “Bien Pretty.” These stories show us how women loved men who did not love them back, left and hurt them. The women from these three stories shared what love did to them and what love can do to them anyone. When women actually committed on something or someone, they will love them endlessly. Although these women did not get the love that they deserve, at least they experienced something that will teach them lessons. Perhaps the next time they will love someone, they will make sure that they will be love back.

The two stories, “The Wife” and “The Broken Heart”, were given to this literature circle to discuss and discover the stories’ plots and hidden meanings. Kira was our leader and illustrator; Isaiah was our researcher; Rainena was our reader; Hollis was our person who helped those who needed help. The stories had a similar theme, love, and how it affects those who have experienced love at its greatest measure. “The Broken Heart” was a short story revolving around the plot of disappointed love. It was a comparison between the love of men and women. Men’s love is based on their interest and ambition, seeking fame or fortune or dominion. As a result, they are not as attached as women. Unlike men, women are more in touch with their feelings. They are secluded and fixed on one person. Therefore, when women experience heartbreak, their whole personality can be changed from their original characteristics. In the story, a young woman’s love dies in war and she is

I have been doing a great deal of thinking about the relationship of vulnerability and love. Believe it or not, you are the most vulnerable when you are experiencing love. Years and years ago, I used to believe love was simply an elusive feeling, more of an ideal than a reality. Love was simply a fascination that you felt at the beginning of a relationship but never achieved in a way that was portrayed in the movies or in romance novels. In hindsight, I believe the “love” that I felt was merely a combination of physical attraction, a fondness for the girl’s personality and the security of being in a relationship. What I have since learned is that true love requires an additional ingredient more powerful than any other factor: vulnerability!