Experiences shared with other people provided important knowledge that helps people find their place in the world. The novel, Microserfs by Douglas Coupland displays these traits by having the reader follow the diary of Daniel Underwood as he starts to wonder if life has more meaning than just working. Firstly, love helps a person understand to improve oneself, that they always have a person to talk too and that love can make people cherish each other. Secondly, Loss can impact people by having them deny about the loss, accept the loss and remember the loss. Finally, friendships help people understand that there is more to life than work, friends are always there to help that friends can provide a comfortable environment. The experience …show more content…
Lastly, love can help people cherish one another. This is depicted when Daniel and Karla are at the park at night spending time together, while Karla is sleeping Daniel whispers ‘“ You’re my baby now: you’re a thousand diamonds - a handful of lovers rings - chalk for a million hopscotch games”’(101). This provides evidence that love helps people cherish each other because after Daniel and Karla spend some time to get to know each other they really get close to each other, Daniel feels that she is someone who he really cares about and would hate to lose letting Daniel know what it feels like to have somebody so precious. As stated above, the experience of love helps people understand the importance of others by providing them information about improving oneself, having someone you can tell anything too and cherishing someone.
Secondly, Loss of something important can teach people about denial, acceptance, and remembrance. To start, the experience of loss can teach people about denial, this is exhibited early in the novel when Daniel is on the phone with his mom talking about Jed and he states that “She calls because she wants to speak about Jed, but none of us in the family are able. We kind of erased
Friendship describes the mutual pledge to help reveal the innermost workings of a person, bringing out the hidden attributes and validity of one’s characteristics. Subsequently, the bonds and struggles of friendship are a central cause for unveiling identity as the relationship one makes contributes to long-lasting change. The acceptance of a person’s differences conveys an importance for the development of strong bonds. Moreover, hardships accompanying relationships establish times to reflect on oneself and lead to positive outcomes for growth. Furthermore, the memorable journeys embed an area in one’s mind that will change the way self-perspective is seen. Through the characters of Lewis in If I Ever Get Out Of Here by Eric Gansworth and
Friendship is the strongest relationship two people can have. John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men,” for example, is about two men who go around California looking for jobs during the Great Depression. The camaraderie between the two main characters, George and Lennie, stands out particularly. Their friendship is similar to that of a parent and a child. George being the parent and taking care of Lennie by keeping him out of trouble; and Lennie being the child, ignorant of the world around him and simple-minded. In the case of John Steinbeck’s classic novella, the friendship of the two men produces risks for both; however, the emotional and physical benefits far outweigh the risks.
Love is a strong thing in life that can be great but it also has a downside. In the novel there is love between Henry and Keiko. Also, between Marty and Samantha. The love between Henry and Keiko is very strong because they are two minority's in an all white school. This impact brings them together in the biggest way possible. They do not have any other friends besides each other so they are constantly together and talking. When they had to split up Henry never got to tell her goodbye the way he wanted to, so he went all the way to the camp she was at. This shows that he truly cares about Keiko. Their kiss together is what really strengthened their relationship. Marty and Samantha are also a couple but their love does not seem to be as strong
In this global era of evolving civilization, it is increasingly difficult to ignore the fascinating fact about love. Love is a feeling of intimacy, warmth, and attachment. Love is inevitable and it plays a vital role in human life as Janie uses her experience with the pear tree to compare each of her relationships, but it is not until Tea Cake that she finds “a bee to her bloom.” (106).
To begin with, one of the themes that is presented throughout the memoir is the loss of
Trustworthiness, dependency, and advices are all valuable ideas that must exist in friendship as it helps realize the importance of a friend. People can acknowledge the worth of each other, and also appreciate from their existence, which can lead to an evolution in their friendships. But it can also be a way to consider the standard of a good friend – a true friend. The author analytically motivates readers to wonder about how much of these values their friendships convey, and by utilizing his conceptual meaning of a true friend, Steinbeck translates that a real friend is whom that you can trust, depend on, and take good advices from. Steinbeck in conclusion, further alludes readers to look back upon their friends, and to consider how many “real” friends are besides them
What would you learn, push-yourself to be, or talk to someone about when you come to face the instance of war? This is one of the many questions main character, Tim O’Brien, thought about before he faced one of his biggest fears. From reading this book, Tim O’Brien learned a lot about himself through interactions with other characters, which helped the readers understand an overall theme. Over the course of the novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, Tim O’Brien becomes a stronger man, learns life lessons from his close interactions, and teaches readers the importance of love and friendship. At the beginning, Tim’s main goal is to convince himself to man-up for the war that soon would change his life.
The main lessons in Ellis' book were friendship and collaboration. In the book friendship is seen as a common and recurring theme
Loss can mean something very different, depending on who you ask to define it and what their history is with it. However difficult the obstacle may be, Tim O’Brien’s words can help alleviate someone’s conscious, because he points out the importance of all those stories lived with that certain person or thing that was lost. Even with my personal losses, I can relate to O’Brien’s views of loss and the importance of all the memories of the lost thing. Loss would not be so impactful if it weren’t for all those sentimental memories and emotions that come with it. It’s necessary to sometimes remember the happy times lived before the loss, to slowly fill up the hole that it created in the heart. It’s true, losing something is rarely anything to be happy about, but if anyone has something that makes saying goodbye hard, they would be considered
Love can be whatever one makes it out to be. From basic science to a complex philosophical or mystical idea. A person’s own unique experiences with love make it a concept that is so widely perceived and interpreted. Throughout her piece, Selections from Love 2.0 Barbara Fredrickson tries to broaden her audience’s understanding to a new idea of love. Overall, she claims that love is a biological need. The claim that longevity and quality of life might have lots to do with not only ‘clean air and nutritious food’ but also ‘your supply of love’ are accurate to a certain extent. A constant supply of love is needed for a better quality of life but it is not necessarily needed to live a long life. If the claim is taken to be true, then a weak supply of love would result in a person just existing and not living life to their fullest or connecting to other human beings; therefore, they would be incomplete without it.
The loss of a loved one can help us find compassion. In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the boy is the most compassionate person in the whole novel. At the end of the novel, when the boy 's father dies, the boy is not thinking about hisself and the challenges he will now have to face. He is thinking about covering his deceased father with a potentially useful blanket, something that may seem trivial to us, but is important to the boy. "Could we cover him with one of the blankets?" (McCarthy 279). Another example of love found with the loss of a loved one is in Harrison Bergeron. In this story, there is an absence of love for individuality by the government, but the people still possess some type of love and that is present in the scene where Harrison is killed. As the mother watches
Love makes us do crazy things. It makes us become people we never thought we were. Love gives us an ultimatum about our life. Love is a powerful bond and wicked curse. When we love, we love hard. We will do anything for love and to be loved. In “My Sister’s Marriage,” Cynthia Marshall Rich presents the different views of love upon similar yet different characters. Two sisters, who share a loving yet manipulative Father show the different ways love affects us. Sarah-Ann and Olive have many similar and different relationships with love, their dreams, and their traits.
Love stands-out to be one of the most prevalent qualities known to humans and found in any relationship. Not to mention, the world is a place where most people seek love. No matter who or what it is, love can be expressed to anyone, ranging from family to the public or work, and to romantic relationships. Showing love to someone can be represented in multiple ways, such as taking care, supporting others in need, or simply saying ‘I love you’ to someone. The focus here is on love in relationships. In romantic relationships, love builds further emotions and enables one to develop more character traits and personalities to their love. In the novel “Eleanor and Park” by Rainbow Rowell, the two protagonists Eleanor and Park show how they resolve conflicts in their relationship, as they both have sentiments of love throughout the novel and discover more emotions and traits with each other, from the heart. Acknowledging this allows one to say that love enables one to show courage, supported by the bus scene when Eleanor was ecstatic, the bus students bullying Eleanor, and Eleanor’s conflict with her family but solved with the help of Park.
Through this example, Cassandra shows us how Jace’s outlook on love changed throughout the story- in this quote Alec Lightwood; ‘parabatai’ of Jace, explains to Clary how dissimilar Jace has become ever since Clary became known to him, because this is the first time that Jace has ever ‘allowed himself to love’. A example beyond this text that shows the power of love, is the story of the Russian couple Boris and Anna Kozlov. They got married in 1946 and three days after their ceremony, Boris was called back to his unit in the Red Army. The two never saw each other for 60 years, with Anna’s family being exiled and Boris left in the army with no contact, but they never stopped loving each other. Miraculously, Boris and Anna arrived at the same town after six decades and all their feelings for one another returned. The time spent away from each other had not destroyed the bond they once had. Anna and Boris got married again, and become the lovely old couple everyone admires. “We have a love that moves the sun and all the other stars.”
Why is love so important in a person’s life? In society, love is such a vital aspect which most center their lives around. For many it is what creates meaning in their daily lives and what makes us continue to chose to live. People move across the country for love, do outrageous acts that declare their love, and spend their lives dedicating time, energy, and commitment to those they chose to love. “Love is what makes the world go round” because it is such a strong feeling of attachment we feel for our partners, children, and friends. As humans we have strong emotional needs and many make the mistake of ignoring when these needs are not being met.