Snow Ann Beattie

The idea of universal love is one that is prevalent in the media. With the news filled with grim stories and horror many people are calling to the idea of loving everyone. Tensions are high concerning race relations, gender discrimination, and sexual orientation. Many in the general public are calling for humanity to embrace humanity. Many in the general public are asking “why we can’t just love one another”? Stephen T. Asma tackles this idea of love in his article published in the New York Times. Asma discusses two different ideas about universal love before offering his own take on the subject. Just as Asma states, universal love is a myth and closer personal relationships should be favored.

In this writing assignment I will be giving a detailed interpretation on Robert Nozick’s writing, “Love’s Bond”. First I will give an explanation on Nozick’s account of the nature of love. Secondly, I will explain why Robert Nozick believes that in love there is no desire to trade up to another partner. Lastly, I will also explain why he says that it is incoherent to ask what the value of love is to an individual person.

Introduction: John’s domination over the Narrator is evident from the beginning of the short story. The Narrator remains unknown and takes the identity of John’s wife not an individual human being. This identity, further explored, becomes her personality because she obeys John’s every command.

Sandra Cisneros illustrates in the poem “My Wicked Wicked Ways” a conflicted picture of a broken family. It presents the idea of unrequited love. The mother of the speaker is holding onto a man that has another partner, besides herself. Evidently, the father possesses strong feelings and emotions towards his beloved mistress. However, the mother belittles herself and accepts the infidelity. The hidden message behind “Here is my mother / She is not crying” reveals that the mother is unhappy about the abuse of her love and trust, but pretends to be okay for the sake of her child (Cisneros 185). Love and commitment goes hand and hand; it is impossible to have one without the other. Therefore, this example illustrates that the father does not wholeheartedly love his spouse. In consequence, his wife suffers emotionally and relinquishes these emotions through tears. The effects of this emotional abuse inflicted by unrequited love can subtly range from mood swings to a complete emotional shutdown. Crying is her most effective outlet. The poem continues with “She cannot look into the lens /because the sun is bright,” as it creates an excuse for the agony inflicted (Cisneros 185). It is evident that the mother of the speaker is only allowed to grieve short-term. Rather, she masks her emotions and allows it to kill her inside than to be portrayed as emotionally weak. Similar to the mother, most individuals that experience unrequited love tends to hide their sorrows because of shame. They are not only ashamed of their partners inability to love them correctly but at themselves for being ignorant to that fact. Many become angry at the world, few are in denial; most endure hopelessness, and others fall into a deep abyss of depression. What every individual that has experienced these one-sided expectations have in common is that they are all unhappy. Depression is the worst consequence of it all,

The young-adult romance novel Let It Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle tells exciting adventures of teenagers realizing the love they dreamed of won’t always play out like in the movies. This book follows Jubilee, Tobian, and Addie who discover that love can come at the worst timing sometimes. Whether that be on a train stuck in a blizzard, a journey to your local Waffle House, or just a barista trying to keep a promise to a friend. This book reminds its readers that both love and friendship can be the most important thing in one's world and sometimes its the only way to get through the hardest times.

While her destination is not predetermined, she ultimately pursues happiness, which she believes can be found in a compatible partner. Janie’s desire for a relationship blossoms when she, as a young girl, bears witness to “a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight” (Hurston 10-11). This romantic and erotic awakening drives Janie’s reason and will to leave her arranged husband, Logan Killicks, for Jody Starks, an ambitious and well-spoken man. Similarly, after Jody’s death, she reasons again with love to follow Tea Cake, who answers Janie’s deeper desire to practice the voice repressed by her previous lovers.

The author carefully crafts the story so that every detail contributes to a certain unique or single effect, whether it is as complex as irony or as simple as depiction of feelings. The Husband describes his absolute love for Ann as he reminisces about the years he spent with her and how deeply he "knows"

By the end his ex-lovers face and winter are now a constant reminder of how deceiving love can be. The reader is left with the knowledge that all love that ends usually leaves behind a depressing state of mind and

In the book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, themes of the journey one takes in life are thoughtfully depicted. A journey consists of time and events, but also the exterior and interior struggles that life brings. In Lily’s life, the struggle for love, in all its forms, proves to be one of the biggest and most important journeys in her life. In the very beginning of the book, when Lily is in her “Sitting Quietly” days, she says, “I have a whole life to tell; I have nothing left to lose and few to offend” (See 3). Her tone of assurance and fearlessness differs greatly with the young Lily we meet in her “Milk Years,” and the young woman we watch her become. In just those first years, we are introduced to a person who has a great ability to understand

I interpreted this poem as a very sad one. A love unrequited by the pursued. In the first two lines the poem tells you to forget about the love you share and hear a tale of this. Not to literally forget, but possibly put aside. The man is a winter breeze, cold and rough and sort of roams the land. The woman is a window flower, shut off from the outside. This sets up the separation.

Variations On The Word Love by Margaret Atwood in my opinion doesn’t portray that the use of the word love is used as an expression of mutual respect between members of our society. The meaning that I received out of the poem was that there are many different types of love, each one is uniquely different from the other. Love shouldn’t just be a “word we use to plug up holes with.” I believe that the poem shows that love used to mean something, but it can no longer be associated with the meaning of intense feelings for another. The word has gone through abuse and has been overused, it has lost its powerful implication.

Finding the Love of Your Life was written by Neil Clark Warren, PH.D., and in this book he explains his ten basic principles of finding the right mate to spend your life with. He teaches people how to understand the two different types of love: passionate love and companionate love. He states that many do not get past the passionate love portion which is why many people go from relationship to relationship when the passion wears off.

Our innate tendencies affect out behavior patterns in the life cycle. From love, sex, and marriage and the change from societies to past and future times. The discoveries of why we have mating traits and how they are used in many meanings such as a smile or the way a person speaks with their body. The forces of culture and environment take part in human involvement in the world. While men and women start to change roles and rights are broaden in a marriage. Along comes divorce in which happens so often in societies because of many reasons. What we have inherited is from out ancestors and it repeats itself in every life cycle. The expedition of the book Anatomy of Love goes through the past to future on love, sex, marriage, and divorce and how it relates to modern societies.

A famous Japanese writer Ihara Saikaku, born in 1642, was a son of a wealthy merchant in Osaka. He had a wife and three kids, one of which was blind and in addition to taking care of his family, he learned to write haikai poetry and comics at a young age. Since his wife died at a young age, he became adventurous as “he traveled extensively writing about the various parts of the country” (Rollins, para.4). One of his first novels is called Koshoku Ichidai Otoko in 1682, which led to Saikaku becoming the first Japanese writer able to reflect the life of the modern city Japan and how he supported equality.

The narrator is unknown to the readers but describes Catherine’s, and other characters inner thoughts, that would otherwise be reserved to them. Although it is Catherine that is made the main focus, “Catherine’s feelings, as she got into the carriage, were in a very unsettled state; divided between regret for the loss of one great pleasure, and the hope of soon enjoying another”, her narrative representation is sympathetic and pleasant but the third-person structure also allows for Catherine’s nature to be presented without confusing the