Love And Matched: A Literary Analysis

A universal theme is a or multiple characteristics/personality that people everyone shares around the world. Universal themes are also shared among folk tales and genres. In both the “The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson” and “Abuelito Who?” they have similar universal themes. These themes include grandchildren love and respect their grandparents, most grandparents are treated poorly and with disrespect, and are elderly.

“The Perfect Match” by Ken Liu begins with Sai, the protagonist, waking up to “Il Sospetto.” The song was played at the exact right time to wake him up making him feel ready for the day. Tilly had chosen the song and when to play it. As the morning progresses and Sai goes into the shower, Tilly begins speaking about a perfect match that she has found for him. It is a girl that Tilly knows Sai will like. Sai trusts Tilly with everything, even picking the correct beverage to have for breakfast. As Sai is leaving his apartment to head to work, we are introduced to another main character, Jenny. She is dressed in a “thick winter coat, ski goggles, and a long, dark scarf that covered her hair and the rest of her face” (Liu). Sai describes Jenny

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, and the impossible love of Ethan Frome and Mattie Silver. These two stories have more in common than you think. They both end sourly, as each resists a “happy ever after” ending. Both romances also seem to convey that love isn’t always what it seems. And both their characters set unrealistic expectations for the others. As these stories unfold side by side, they seemed unlikely qualifiers of similarities, at first. But as one reads more and more, each tale exists to try to give a message to all who read. In reality, life and love don’t often end happily ever after.

The last book that I finished was Matched by Ally Condie. It is the first book in the Matched Trilogy, and the very first book written by Ally Condie. Matched is a book that encompasses many things; It has a dystopian future, a love triangle, and a rebellion against society. The main character Cassia Reyes has been matched for life with her best friend Xander Carrow; she is very excited and happy until she sees another boy’s face on the micro card that has all her Matchees information. Her official tells Cassia that it was a mistake, and that Xander is her true match but she starts to develop feelings for her so called mistake. Read to find out if Cassia will risk her reputation for her true love, or if she will keep her “perfect life” and

Love is like a soccer ball kicked by a bad teammate. It hits hard and most of the time leaves you in pain. But in the end it can be good, like for example you might not have to go to school the next day because you have a broken nose. The love in most romances are often cliched, and unreal. But two stories that come really close to explaining the real meaning of love is ¨Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe and ¨The Highwayman”by Alfred Noyes.

Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Ally Condie’s Matched may follow similar conventions to create a dystopian society however, the purpose each author conveys is significantly different. Ishiguro uses Tommy G. to illustrate to readers that one’s future is decided by fate, in contrast, Condie uses Cassia Reyes to depict to readers that one should take hold of their future and create their own destiny.

Love conquers all, or at the very least, that’s what many romance novels want people to believe. A Secret Sorrow by Karen van der Zee, which tells the tale of Faye and her struggle to commit to Kai after an accident leaves her unable to reproduce, is a perfect example of this. “The Sorrowful Woman” by Gail Godwin, on the other hand, is a dark fairy tale about a woman whose life is only made worse by marriage and motherhood. At first glance, these stories may seem completely different. On further examination, A Secret Sorrow and “A Sorrowful Woman” share both similarities and differences in tone, theme, and gender roles that lead to the latter story being a much better piece of literature.

Both texts envelop narrative structure to draw parallelisms between reality and fiction which deepen the reader’s emotional connection but the

The first theme being discussed is love. Love would be the most common thing found in

Palomon says, " The Beauty of the lady whom I see wandering yonder in the garden

Internal conflict in the “The Cheater's Guide to Love” is widespread throughout this piece of literary work. The literary analysis I discovered was the more defiantly the painstaking decisions and the deep dark deceptions that was done by the main character. There were many resemblances and misfortunes that two friends endure throughout this story that are both internal and external conflicts. “Your girl catches you cheating. (Well, actually she’s your fiancée, but hey, in a bit it so won’t matter.)”

A prosecutor against child molesters, Nina Frost, knows all too well the loopholes the justice system entails and when it is her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, who has been sexually assaulted, her husband, Caleb, and her lives flips upside down because Nina knows too clearly that her son will not find justice within the courts. Nina goes ahead with her own plan to bring her son justice, regardless of the consequence, no matter the sacrifice. Jodi Picoult causes the reader to truly understand what her characters were feeling as well as what was going on in the story. If Nina was upset, the reader felt upset and knew why. When Nathaniel stopped talking, the audience felt the pain that he did. Picoult took her readers not only into the

“Der Doppelganger”, written by Heinrich Heine, is a poem about unreciprocated love. The main characters in this work are the narrator and someone that he sees on the street: his doppelganger (an apparition or double living of a person). As you read through the poem,, it becomes obvious that the narrator is really the doppelganger and he has become so controlled over his lost love that he sees his own reflection of sadness in the face of the moon. The poem contains a lot of illustrations that depict moods such as seclusion, darkness, suffering, heartbreak, and despair; Franz Schubert attempts to reflect these illustrations in his musical setting of the text.

The time periods that each text is set in varies and it is therefore interesting to note that this does not change the fundamentals, we are prepared to make sacrifices for love. All the characters were forced by restrictions of the time to make difficult decisions and in these cases they were willing to give their lives, either physically or emotionally, for their love. It shows the extremity of love, that it is worth more to these literary

Similarities create an emotional bond that can fill a person with comfort, whether it be between people, places, or experiences. No Greater Love and The Captive Princess reveal common elements within the fundamental aspects of the narratives, but they are not contained to only those elements. The narrative structure of both stories centralizes around affects the passage of time has after a traumatic event. It was almost as if Shore and Steel were more preoccupied to relate to the reader the importance of that something had happened instead of when something had happened. Each author seemingly wrote the resolution stories almost at the end, almost as if to show that each ending, is also another beginning.