I Am A Hopeless Romantic

Obsessions cause havoc and can potentially ruin a person’s life, yet society normalizes and capitalizes on their effects. Obsessive thoughts and behaviors are becoming increasingly more common in today’s society. They can have many detrimental effects due to the lack of control it causes in a person. With the popularity of romantic comedies and love songs, borderline stalking behaviors are viewed as normal acts of love. The Great Gatsby, a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, features a man hopelessly obsessed with a past girlfriend. Additionally, There’s Something About Mary is a movie about a man demonstrating stalker-like behavior toward a woman that he has been obsessed with since his childhood. Due to deficits in their own life and self-esteem,

When Maya has friends over she tries to keep them sheltered from that part of her life, because she doesnt want them to know about the kind of culture she belongs to. When you look out into the world many people relate to Maya, they all want to hide the kind of culture they grew up in and the kind of lifestyle they live in. These people will hide who they are on a day to day basis because of their culture. These people try to avoid the question “whats that” or “why is that hung up and what does it mean” or they just want to avoid being bullied because of

Love is a beautiful thing. The ability to feel is a gift that we should all cherish. However, there are people who are so lost that they abuse their gift to feel. They start spiral into self-destruction by hurting themselves and others emotionally and even physically. Secretly they are crying for someone’s help by doing these hostile actions, but others take it as being malevolent and apathetic. The narrator of “Diary of an Oxygen Thief” by anonymous has the same experience as every person on this planet who believe they are broken and want to feel something. The narrator accounts the experiences of how all of his troubles began that left him the way he is now in his diary. The narrator seeks the bane of affections, but one day it will come

As she accepts her role and keeps looking for the chess piece, we can see her walking with a man, what means she’s completely dragged to the adult world.The moment she starts walking with the man, who changes 4 times, it represents the love life. When we enter the adult world, our main relation is with the opposite sex, and Maya symbolized this commitment as they were walking together through a road.

The article “Man-Made Misery” by Thomas M. Colicino, discusses how some love stories aren’t meant to last. Thomas describes the day he first met a girl named Katherine during his sophomore year of High School. By senior year of High School the author writes how he decides to make a move on Katherine. Thomas confesses his true feelings to her however she ends up telling him she has a boyfriend and pretends he knew the whole time.

For one thing, not only is Maya a girl, but she is an African American as well. This means there is the added factor of racism on top of society’s expectations for her. These two combined lead Maya to have very little self-esteem and confidence in herself. From a young age, she believed she was ugly, comparing herself to her brother Bailey saying, “When I was described by our playmates as being shit color, he was lauded for his velvet black skin” (22). She is constantly teased for her appearance because of her skin color, and believes the horrible things people say about her. Angelou shows us that the pressure from society to be attractive and beautiful suffocates her, and that she is under the belief that she is ugly for the majority of her childhood. This, along with her parents leaving her and her brother when they were only three and four respectively, makes Maya feel unwanted. Incidentally, it does not help when she notices a pattern for the heroes in the books she reads. Maya praises an author named Horatio Alger, claiming he was “the greatest writer in the world. His heroes were always good, always won, and were always boys” (75). Maya notices that heroes were always depicted as boys, and it makes her wish she had been born a boy as well. The lack of representation of female heroes makes her, and possibly many other little girls, feel as if there is no possible way they would achieve

In that case if anyone who is trying to put her down will end up failing. Maya is really proud of her appearance and not afraid to show that. As shown above it is explain that when you are strong and have confidence nothing will stop you from moving forward in life. As you can tell this poem is a very good advice from the author herself she includes how other people get amazed by the confidence she has. After all it is all about the confidence you carry at all times and putting aside all the negative things you carry that hurts

To convey a strong message of feminism and empowerment of women, Maya Angelou writes a myriad of literary devices in her poem. To illustrate, the literary work uses an allusion to reference Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet when it says “a rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer”. In Romeo and Juliet, the famous quote about the rose is talking about how it doesn’t matter what Romeo’s last name is because he is the same person on the inside. Maya contrasts this idea by arguing that being called a devaluing name will only weaken rather than empower her. Also, the author uses symbolism to convey the way women were seen intellectually .For example, in the first line of

Stalking has been a label for a long-term pattern of persistent pursuit and intrusive behavior directed by one person toward another (Logan & Cole, 2007). It is a term that has been around since

True love--something every young girl dreams of. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of a young girl, Janie, and her journey to find love. The character experiences three marriages that bring her much grief. The physical abuse, the lying, the stealing, and the mental abuse that made her feel like less of a person ultimately ruined Janie's hope for love. Zora Neale Hurston depicts Janie, the main character, as a symbol of a hopeless romantic by using dialogue, dramatic irony, and diction.

Marguerite Johnson was born in Missouri, on April 4, 1926 to Bailey and Vivian Baxter. She was given the nickname Maya by her brother, Bailey Jr. They grew up in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. Maya’s parents’ marriage ended she and her Brother were sent to live with their grandmother in Stamps. During 1935 to 1940 they lived between homes of their mother and grandmother. While living with her mother Maya was abused and raped by her mother’s boyfriend which was so traumatic that she was unable to speak. They returned to thire grandmother once again.

She confided in her brother. She later learned that her uncles had killed her attacker. Feeling that her words were responsible for the man’s death, she stopped speaking. She remained mute until the age of 13, when she and her brother returned to live with their mother. At 16, she became pregnant during high school. She gave birth to a baby boy, Guy, shortly after graduation. She worked several jobs to support herself and her child. She later married a Greek sailor, but the union didn’t last. Instead, she traveled the world, using her many talents to touch the lives of the people she encountered. Maya worked as a successful actress, author, singer, teacher, dancer, poet, and director. She’s best known for her series of autobiographies and works of poetry. Her work brought her fame and a huge international audience. She was a wonderful spokesperson for African Americans and for women. She is beloved by fans across the world, from many different walks of life.

Maya was a fighter who suffered most of her life with female bond. One of her features is quite interesting was her strength. Even though she experienced a variety of problems in her life, she never gave up and she kept pushing for the prosperity of her life. Maya Angelou is a woman with a strong character. She teaches how to keep ourselves up

The concept of fate and destiny continues to prevail mankind and it is usually associated with the kind of romance that is ‘meant to be’. At a certain point in our lives, we encounter an individual whom we feel an immediate connection to. There is a belief that if two hearts are meant for each other, fate will bring the two individuals together. Until now, this idea continues to bewilder people and it makes them think whether fate and destiny truly exists or are important encounters just a coincidence. Haruki Murakami’s “On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning” depicts how an individual missed an ideal opportunity, which is caused by his preoccupation with fantasy rather than facing reality.

Maybe you were wondering from the previous chapters, when did I have my first positive female interaction after all the drama I’ve experienced with the cheap love note ploys and being out of the mix when it came to dressing like others. This chapter will expound on the notion that I tried looking out of state for love and let’s see where it takes us.