Love Diane Ackerman Analysis

It’s funny how most of the book's profound words about love don't include the word "love" at all.

“Awe…” said Mary as she emerged from the bus to see it happen. “Why don’t you ever treat me like that, Lovie?”

“ Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.” Love is not a fixed thing that is the same for everyone who experiences it. Society has a normative and inflexible idea of what love is, when actual love is different for everyone.

On July 19th, 1936, Curley Boss of Soledad, California unfortunately passed away at the age of thirty. Born January 20th, 1906, to Mr. Boss and Mrs. Boss, may she rest in peace, Curley was their one and only child. Recently, Curley’s beloved wife also passed away at his family’s ranch. His death followed that devastating event, Curley was found at the bottom of a well. According to workers at the ranch, Curley jumped into the well simply to prove his dominance. I guess it’s true when they say, pride comes before the fall.

In Diane Ackerman’s essay “Pain,” she ponders about the subjectivity in experiencing pain, how to define pain, and its role in human life. She begins by emphasizing that an individual’s ability to endure pain may depend more on culture and atmosphere than on the actual magnitude of the pain. Given that at times humans can forego pain for a spell because of their atmosphere, Ackerman elucidates the importance of surroundings in how one experiences pain by exemplifying her claim through a phenomenon in football players. Ackerman continues her discussion on the disparities in the reception of pain by asserting expectations delineate the painfulness of events. Strengthening her claim that tradition affects pain, Ackerman considers how cultures

Love is one of the most influential entities on Earth. Love convinces people to perform many tasks they otherwise would not have even considered performing. Some people yearn for love so deeply that love can turn people into inhumane, bitter, creatures with no mercy or compassion toward others. Other people may think that the feeling of love will last for a while and then dissipate over the time the couple spends together until the relationship becomes dull and unhealthy. These toxic relationships can be found everywhere and can greatly lower the quality of one’s life; by introducing poor decisions and hatred into their life.

Acts of violence are detrimental when regarding its effects on human emotion. When exposed to too much violence, a person’s perception on society and even themselves begins to be altered. Nevertheless, just as violence can be disadvantageous to people, it can also be seen as an advantage as it causes citizens to realize that change needs to occur. In “Great to Watch,” the author, Maggie Nelson, discusses how society, especially Americans, have become desensitized to violence. Nelson also goes into depth to explain how society has become accustomed to violence due to the fact that people are exposed to it on a daily basis. In addition, Beth Loffreda discusses and explains the effects that a violent hate crime had on the town of Laramie, Wyoming

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.

Love affects what people choose to do weather it is right or wrong. “You’re going to have to make a choose, the girl said carl or us ” (Carver 785). In this example from “Everything Stuck to Him”the boy is faced with his family

Men express their love by doing something, such as, providing care, and financial support. She states that many studies have shown that women are better in love than men. She argues that these studies are biased because they only focus on expressing love, they do not focus practical part of the love. Cancian, also argues that contemporary literature and poetry also emphasize on feminized version of love. Poetry is full of expressing intense emotions toward a person, and the poetry often ignores the instrumental aspect of love. The feminized version of love differs among different social classes. Cancian say, “ …poorer people are more likely than they to see practical help and financial assistance as a sign of love” (521). This could be true because we may try to achieve what we need through love. If a person does not need financial support and physical caring, the person might expect more emotional version of love. I think what we expect from love is dependent to our circumstances. A woman with high education, and stable income, might not consider instrumental important. However, a house wife who is financially dependent to her husband might prefer having more instrumental love to be included in their

If society was a person in itself, it would be a criminal. It has deceived human beings into believing that love is supposed to be something that is always beautiful, euphoric and extremely powerful. It pressures individuals into commitment, passion and desire while simultaneously reminding them that an excess of one thing is not good. Society need to make up its mind. As the world knows, love is not simply defined as a group of words; rather, it is many things that are rooted to deep affection. Love presents itself in different shapes, forms and sizes, but what happens to this endearment when it is one-sided? The sole attribute that every individual seek has the potential to destroy most. Unrequited love poisons the character

While people are often able to identify when they feel the emotion love, love itself seems to defy definition.  In her polemic “Against Love”, Laura Kipnis argues that love cannot exist as traditional expressions of love such as marriage, monogamy, and mutuality.  However, in her argument, she defines love incorrectly by equating love to expressions of love. This definition lacks a component essential to understanding the abstract concept of love: emotion. Recognizing love as emotion helps us realize that, contrary to Kipnis’ argument love by nature transcends all expressions of love. Love is subjective and exists in any and all forms. In her argument that love cannot survive as conventional expressions of love, Kipnis ignores the nature of love as emotion in favor of equating love to different expressions of love. Love is a force which exists above expressions of love; a true understanding of love can only come from an assessment of how individuals, not societies, respond to the emotion.

Firstly, the theme love has the potential to change people 's opinions towards each other is evident in the novel the help. The author of the novel, Kathryn Stockett has shown this theme through the character Skeeter who is a white person and her whole family believe that white people are better than black people and that black people should not have equal rights. However, the person who was paid to bring up Skeeter by her family was a black person named Constantine. Because Skeeter loved Constantine who was a black person, her views were different to the views of her family and her opinion towards black people 's rights was that they should be equal to the rights of people with white skin. The author teaches the reader that love has the potential to change others opinions towards each other through this example by showing how Skeeters love for her black caregiver Constantine changed her opinion towards black people because her family and society taught her to believe that white people are better than black people but Constantine believes that everyone should be treated equally regardless of their

bell hooks in “Love as the Practice of Freedom” explains thoroughly as to how love is the form to be liberated. Without any love society is blind and continues to practice systems of domination without being aware. However the community should look out for one another not just when a problem impacts an individual. Everyone must be aware of the systems of domination- imperialism,sexism,racism, and classism to create change. When radical love is comprehended it allows the destruction of oppression,exploitation and there is liberation

     “I love you.” These three little words might possibly be the most powerful statement one can make to another person. In life, most yearn for the intimate affection that a certain someone can provide them. Women dream of their Prince Charming to come and sweep them off their feet, while men search for the love of their life that sets their heart on fire. But what happens when love is thrown around without a second thought? Has this four letter word become an overused cliché? Has love been replaced with lust? Is there such a thing as true love? This last question has been asked throughout history, while many have argued and debated over the final answer. We, as a society, have become a loveless, sex crazed group