Love, Mourning, And The Killing Of Others

The narrator knew what love was, and felt it all the time. He learned to respect everything on earth, and care for as long as it lives. “The earth and everything it contained was a gift from See-see-am… and the way to thank the gifts was to respect it.”(George, Pg.445) The narrator wanted to tell how his culture was to respect everything he had, and to always have love because love strengthens everyone. “We must have love because without it we become weak and faint. (George, Pg.447) We must remember culture so that we can remember our people before us. If we lose culture we wouldn’t learn much from each other and people would be the same. “We have taken much from your culture… I wish you had taken something from our culture… for there were some beautiful and good things in it.”(George,

Plot is defined as, "the authors arrangement of incidents in a story it is the organizing principle that controls the controls the order of events (Meyer,64)." The element of plot is heavily relied on in the short story, "The Killings" by Andre Dubus. The plot which is completely made inside the imagination of an author (Meyer,64), gives the audience important insight to people, places, and events in the story (Meyer,64) . "The Killings" provides a somewhat conventional plot pattern, where the character is confronted with a problem and is then led into a climax, which late leads to the resolution of the story (Meyer,65). The conventional plot is easy to follow and serves as a basis for movies and other

In daily life, people encounter many concepts such as emotions, thoughts, actions, and situations. These concepts can often be categorized into two atmospheres: positive and negative. In “The Old Masters” and “The Racer,” Amit Chaudhuri and Hanif Kureishi convey their atmospheres through character relationships involving greed and symbolic ideas. Within “The Old Masters,” the reader is focused on the relationship between Pramathesh and Ranjit--two colleagues who work together--and their lives as time progresses. Throughout “The Racer,” the reader experiences the failing marriage of a husband and wife and their desire to compete in a race and win to show superiority over one another. Although Chaudhuri and Kureishi utilize symbolism,

The poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden define the meaning of love and describes the love that a son has for his father. He showed his love, thanking his father for what he did for him by describing that every day he get up early the next day to go to work no matter the circumstances he sustain his family. The father in the poem, is a hard working person who wants the best for his family even though the family never thanks him. For example, “Then with cracked hands that ached, from labor in the weekday weather made” (Lines 3-4). The father demonstrates a scene of love because when you love, you can demonstrate it with actions to let the other person know is important and what can you do to make them happy. On the other hand, the poem “Magic of love” by Helen Ferries

emotions and subtle nuances provided by the author in the book, and many of the deeper feelings and emotions therein are missed entirely, or touched on much too briefly

This shows that no one is truly delightful because they don’t know what feelings are and they don't feel the feeling because they don’t know what the feeling is.This is true because in the text it says,”Precision of language, please (p 127 Lowry).” This shows that people in The Giver don’t know certain words so they might not know what feelings mean so they can’t be horrible, delightful or anything and they can’t feel feelings. This also shows that people use great grammar but they don’t have a big vocabulary so they use the words they can use for talking. Moreover, his father doesn’t know what he has done and Jonas is getting very angry over it and his feelings are getting raged because of his dad. Because in the text it says,” He killed it! My father killed it!” (Lowry p. 150). This shows people have used equality wrongly so horrible things happen just like this and they don’t know what they've done. This is a problem because Jonas now might not forgive/ like his father because he is furious about what his father did because he did something wrong and he thinks he did nothing wrong. This shows that people who know the truth feel horrible about the people who are released. In conclusion, equality is greatly misunderstood in The Giver, and lots of things turn out horrible and they are not truly delightful because they

The Giver Essay by Dennis Doernenburg First words are the hardest. The screenplay, storyboard, directors all of the people responsible for a movie version of a novel, starting to write something with high expectations requires a lot of confidence, and I have the first-hand experience. The team that wrote this amazing movie had to change the book to make it fit the “movie skeleton”. The movie skeleton is the base of the movie, using all the main characteristics of a movie. In this essay, I will point out the changes in characters.

For centuries, murder cases have captivated the lives of individuals. From news station broadcastings to the media creating films and documentaries, homicide cases have gained the interest and popularity of many. This begs the question as to what lies in the fascination of murder? The basis of this can be found in the psychological state of individuals including the experience of thrill, curiosity, the need for answers, and fear.

Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, offers a thought provoking, well written story, because it changes the perspective of anyone who dares to read it to. Lowry places her novel, at some point in the future when mankind has gone away with changes and choices in life. She forces readers appreciate, or at least re-think the world they live in today. Her novel presents a fully human created environment where people have successfully blocked out conflict, grief, and individuality. Each person follows the same routine every day. Failure comply with standards, to be different, means death. Jonas, the main character, finds himself trapped in this world.

In Love, Emotion, Myth, and Metaphor by Robert C. Solomon, he outlines different ways in which love can be approached. He uses metaphors or explains models in which love could be felt, shown, used, or understood. He includes the metaphors or models; Love as a Fair Exchange, The Work Model, The (Melo) Dramatic Model, Banality as Metaphor, The Communication Metaphor, Love and Aloneness, The Metaphysical Model, The Medical Metaphor, The Aesthetic Model, The Contract Model, The Biological Metaphor, and The Emotional Metaphor. Each section explains how different people experience or act out love. Each section ends with the author explainig the main issue with this model or metaphor. The essay concludes with two paragraphs that essentially states that choosing a single metaphor can be dangerious and that one type of love is not more important than another, thus there being no one ‘true’ love.

The giver Essay Unfortunately, after watching the movie version of “The Giver”, I was tremendously disappointed. Before, I’ve always had high hopes picturing how the movie of such a classic novel would turn out; my hopes are shattered now. One of the main reasons is because the movie jumped around too much that it strayed too far from the original novel. One of the major changes is the conclusion; the movie tells a completely different story compared to the novel.

To love is to have a strong emotional connection with an individual and being concerned for their welfare (OED Online). The love of a family brings sacrifice. Sacrifices are like a gamble, this is because it can be rewarding, in which it fosters love, or it can be detrimental, in which death and destruction is the only outcome. In King Lear, Lear’s sacrifice for the love of his daughters led to his kingdom’s downfall. However, in The Road, the father’s sacrifices led to the boy’s survival but it cost the father his life. Furthermore, there are a multitude ways to express familial love. In King Lear, Lear used extravagancy to appraise his daughters’ proclamations of love in order to properly divide the kingdom. Lear could not express his love towards his children properly, because of this his kingdom suffered greatly. Compared to the father in The Road, his love is immeasurable. The father’s love towards his child has surpassed human language because there are no need for words to describe the love he has for his son. In King Lear, despite having everything in his disposal, Lear did not give his children proper affection. And in The Road, even though the father had nothing to support his son, he gave him everything, even at the expense of his

The Giver shows us that love is an essential part to this world. The Giver shows Jonas the memory of pain and suffering and reacted in a way that made him upset, expressing love to Jonas as well as regret. Jonas was “no longer enjoying the freedom but instead, terrified…”(137). The Giver knows what Jonas is experiencing and regrets it although it is what he is told to do. The Giver took a liking to Jonas but couldn’t bare to watch him in pain. Jonas sacrificed his own comfort so the Giver could be relieved of these memories for himself. These same memories were given to the Giver because it was his job. The Giver of each generation feels love toward the new Receiver because the Giver knows what pain is like. Love is essential in this moment, especially for Jonas, because he needs a person to help him to start a new, more utopian society. People show love by sacrificing themselves for

In the story, “Loves Executioner”, Yalom treats and old woman named “Thelma” that is overly obsessed with her a former therapist from ten years ago named Matthew. Yalom feeling though that he is drawn to the facets of her dilemma decides to do everything he can to empower Thelma move past the obsessions that had been wrecking havoc on her mental health. Although Thelma’s love obsession with her therapist, and her subjective experiences on life of what is preventing her from living in the present, Yalom attempts to treat a 70-year-old woman only to learn that being love executioner more complicated as he had anticipated.

     Hemingway's "The Killers" illustrates that unexplained violence is an integrated part of society.  To acknowledge the cruelties of life is to come to terms with horrifying events that can not be denied.  A person may lack the maturity to cope with everyday life if they do not realize that evil can exist in any given society.