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In addition, the author helps the reader understand the selfishness of the mother when the reader finds out she have stole the Persian Carpet “several months before” (230) the divorce and puts the blame on Ilya, the poor blind man. Furthermore, the visit of the children is supposed to signal a fresh start for the family. The mother even emphasizes she wants the girls to come “live with [them]” (229). Yet again, even if they meet in order to reunite, characterized by a situational irony, they see themselves separated because of her mother selfish decisions.

Cleofilas feels that she could not do much, but she becomes hopeful about her situation. For instance, Cleofilas has to remind herself why she loves her husband when she is changing the baby’s Pampers, or when she is mopping the bathroom floor (Cisneros, 1991, p. 249). Cisneros emphasizes that many women who are controlled and abused often feel that they need to remind themselves why they married their husbands. Cisneros points out that when an individual loves someone they should not have to ask themselves why, nor worry so much about getting hurt.

She doesn't know being beaten by her husband is not a normal thing. She is living in the suburbs with her husband with neighbors who in their own way, are trapped as well. Cisneros also shows how life can be for Cleofilas when a mom is not present to guide heir, again, Cleofilas's only guide are the television series. "The creek, the televonelas and the border define the mythic spaces given to Cleofilas in her fantasies of escape from a battering husband."(Mullen 6) The town which Cisneros chose to have as the setting of the story, there isn't much for her to do;" in the town where she grew up, there isn't much to do except accompany the aunts and godmothers to the house of one or the other to play cards."(Cisneros 44) Using that, Cisneros helps the reader to get a taste of how the environment is. An environment which women don't have a say in, an environment where woman don't have the equal power as men; the environment Cleofilas was raised in.

Clo grew up in a time when the gender roles for Mexican women were more traditional and her father really only expected her to get married and not much else. Her father actually arranged for her to be married to a wealthy man that was her father’s age. All Clo wanted to do was go to art school in Paris but her father ignored her pleas. On the day of the wedding, Clo came down the stairs naked and embarrassed her father so much so that he sent her away to the art school in Paris with money to help keep her away.

The story describes the experiences of a young women named Cleofilas. She grew up with six brothers and had no mother. So therefore, she learned how to be a woman through watching telenovelas. She believes that to be a woman she only needs to find true love and have a “happily ever after”. Later she meets a man named Juan and they eventually fall in love and get married.

To make her life better. Why didn't I? I could have turned to my parents, I suppose. It would have blown up my family in an instant. Instead of my siblings and I kept everything to ourselves, and rather than blowing up in an instant my family broke apart slowly.” Trizon noticed that because he never stood up for her, she lost her freedom to live. Lola never felt happy because she was under the families power. She was a enslaved all her life. Lola was never educated like normal people she never knew how to read or write. She never felt loved by her parents, like the way Tizon’s parents loved him and his sibling. Tizon sees how Lola never had the opportunity to see the world and what the world had to offer her. He realized that not talking to his parents put Lola in a bad situation. For instance, when Lola was complaining about how her teeth hurt, which hurt her for months, Tizon’s mom used to always accuse her of faking it so she doesn't work. Tizon told his mother that Lola should go see the dentist. But Tizon’s mother refused, she began to think that the children were siding with Lola instead of her.

Florian and Joana find hope within each other. Their appreciation for each other grows immensely, from their first interaction in the barn to their kiss on the Wilhem Gustloff. This offers them a distraction and provides color to their dull and gray worlds. It reminds them of feelings other than sorrow and fear. Their love allows them to remember that there was life before the war and there will be a life waiting for them after.

This essay will be going through the different types of love, and the power that they wield. Throughout the novel, different characters hold different powers of love. First, Clara’s love towards Ferula and Pedro Segundo will be discussed. And second, Esteban’s obsessiveness with Clara will be looked at closer. The bonds of love are stronger in relationships that aren’t acceptable compared to relationships that are acceptable in society.

Lindo was arranged to marry Tyan-yu. While the marriage was short-lived, Tyan-yu constantly lied to Lindo, and Tyan-yu’s mother treated Lindo like an object to be bartered between families. Lindo experiences depression being trapped in this lifestyle, so she decides to flee to America in order to escape it. When reminiscing on her marriage Lindo says, “I had no choice, now or later. That was how backward families in the country were. We were always the last to give up stupid old-fashioned customs” (Tan ). Similar to the mother in the beginning, Tan creates appeal to pathos, forcing the reader to sympathize with Lindo. The reader’s sympathy to Lindo allows Tan to expand on the larger issue of sexism, creating an emotional and educational tone in order to coax the reader into, again, understanding the true scale of sexism. Tan drilling this larger idea of sexism into readers changes the reader’s perspective. With new perspective, readers notice the need for change to establish equality between both sexes. Therefore, Tan is using her writing as a tool for a deeper subject: exciting change within the world, and thus, exemplifying Jong’s words.

On her knees deals with themes such as family, pride and self-respect. The most important part of the story is when the narrator Victor, is advising her mother not to return to her place of work as the latter was accused of having stolen a pair of earrings in the house she works as a servant to make ends meet. At this point, the story has reached an important situation which will be discussed in this essay with close reference to the mother-son relationship. On her knees reflects the reality of life where one has to struggle and where those who work for honesty always face trouble.

The main character, Cleofilas at the beginning of the story had a painted picture that all romances are just like the ones she saw on her television from back home. However unfortunately not so long after their marriage began, she came to the conclusion that it is not how she had always imagined. One of the subjects the author, Cisneros, wanted to bring attention to the idea of how when the male in the relationship is the bread-winner,

Lormerin is a bachelor whom approached life with a narcissist persona. The story begins with Lormerin gazing at a mirror, admiring what a fine man he was. This specific scenario which most likely takes place every single day of his life tells a lot about his persona. He murmured “Lormerin is still alive!” In the morning he would sit down on his work table where he would gaze and rearrange his mail like multiple piles of emotions and then proceed to open which ever caught his attention. A very particular letter from Lise de Vance, an old love which he has not seen in twenty five years caught him off guard and turned his world upside down from this point on. Lise left Paris with her husband with who she procreated a girl. Now, that Lise husband passed away she is returning and has sent an invitation to dinner to Lormerin. She informed him of the birth of her daughter to which he did not pay attention.

This tragic marriage and feelings of guilt and grief have been haunting her since the time which can be seen in a recurring motif of a polka tune Varsouviana which „[has been] caught in [her] head“ (Williams 113) and which she associates with the night her husband committed suicide. It is obvious that she has never come to terms with her past. Whenever someone mentions her dead husband, she does not feel well: „The boy - the boy died. Iʼm - going to be sick!“ (Williams 31) She realizes that she is responsible for his death and does not know how to deal with it which results in her love affairs, withdrawal from reality and the final mental breakdown.

Esquivel showed love in a whole other aspect from life in the movie and novel “Like Water for Chocolate”. This movie and novel is about monthly installments with recipes, romances, and home remedies. Love was very powerful and changed everybody’s life, it kept some people around, made some people leave and it even made some people die. Love is something that can take over someone’s mind, soul and body. When two people are in love no one and nothing can get in the way of those two individuals from being together. When you’re in love you’ll do just about anything to keep yourself and the one you love happy. For example in “Like Water for Chocolate” Pedro was so in love with Tita that’s when it came time

Love is expressed differently by all, some like Salamono may tuck it away, only to release it when the lover has left forever. Others , like Marie, choose to boast it to the world without hesitation. This quality is her confidence is herself shining through. She never fails to attest to what she wants “Then she said she wondered if she