Summary Of The Article Man-Made Misery By Thomas M Colicino

Thesis: In the short stories The Charmer, Love Must Not Be Forgotten, and The Address, one’s past experiences have a profound effect on their development as an individual.

Once discovering this article one morning, it was apparent that 6/10 people who have crushes on a person, often lie to that person in order to ensure their portrait of utmost lovability. Being the majority, perhaps it is not too far from reality that this one boy would lie to his crush in order to gain her affection. One can believe that in this heartwarming story; “7th Grade”, the author, Gary Soto leaves the protagonist to believe that “if a person truly loved someone they would take risks for them and sometimes lying is a risk people can take in order to love them.” Here, we start the detailed breakdown of this wonderful story.

Relationships are never easy, and as the famous expression goes, it takes two to tango. People often find that If one does not put their time and effort into making the relationship work, then it reveals something about their character. In the short story, “Bluffing”, by Gail Helgason, this is proven to be true. Helgason first drops subtle hints that the antagonist, Liam, is a bad boyfriend; this is confirmed to be true further on in the story. Through many crises and breakthroughs, his reactions reveal his true lousy character.

Ally Condie’s book, “Matched”, takes place in an unreal world, where society chooses a person’s true love and plans their life. The main character Cassia goes through many problems when society tries to chose her true life, because Cassia falls for someone else and not her true match. Cassia does many things to prove to society that society can not pick Cassias true love. One theme in the book is people should stand by their morals through the bad times.

At the beginning of the story, the protagonist, Cleofilas, had an illusion that all romance is like the ones she had seen on television. However, she soon realizes that her relationship with Juan Pedro was

I started to believe that the narrator has the mind of a man; perhaps she yearns for the chase. She searches for boys who are more than willing to be a quickie and she uses them for a good time. When she gets what she wants it's to late and the emotional damage has already been done. Our narrator reverts back to her female role and relies on emotions rather than logic; it is apparent that in having these quick relationships she is only hurting herself.

stories of the tragic effect of a love so strong that it can kill sets the table for the

People fall in love with the the person they think will be with them for ever but in the end they do wrong actions and they crush their heart. In The Great Gatsby, “Everything Stuck To Him”, and The “Jilting of Granny Weatherall” all these stories are good examples of the human condition love and how it blinds us on our sense of reasoning or causing us pain. In The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, F. Scott, Gatsby gets blinded by his love for Daisy and takes blame for an action he didn’t do. In another story “Everything Stuck to Him” by Carver, Raymond the boy is faced with a big problem choosing his love for his family or going hunting with an old friend. “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Porter, Katherine Anne shows that love is tragic when granny is on her deathbed and remembers her ex who left her at the alter.

Imagine a world where happiness is given to you. Happiness is not worked for nor earned, you just get it. Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, is a novel written in 1932, where Huxley predicts the future of humankind. At the time, Henry Ford was famous for the cheap mass production of the T-model cars using the assembly line. Thus, Huxley predicts a future in which people from the World State(the society he predicts the future will hold) are engineered in test tubes and conditioned to be one of the castes in their society. In this society, the characteristics and emotions that makes humans human are banned. Families, love, passion, literature, natural birth, religion and monogamy are banned because

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.

You’ll be mine and I’ll be yours. Everything will be perfect until one screws up, but what if no one screws up? Yes, if no one screws up you made it to the finish line of a “happily ever after”. Love is such a crazy thing, one day is alive and growing and the next is fading until it completely dies. Everyone will have their own view on love, but love is vague, for one knows about today but not about tomorrow. In her critique of love, “Against Love,” Laura Kipnis offers a judgmental version of what constitutes “real love”. She questions whether we truly desire love, or rather, are conditioned to. She asserts that social forms accustomed us to pursue a love life so that we are entertained and wanted. But everyone has a different opinion on the matter. In his short story, “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love,” Raymond Carver tells the story of four different individuals in which he explores the perceptions of love by referring to their beliefs and experiences. One of the four characters, Mel, seems to have an unclear perspective on love himself as he questions his love life and asserts that everyone is entitled to look for love when is missing. If Mel was to have a conversation with Kipnis they would agree and disagree on certain ideas, for they both are able to understand the complexity of the matter. Mel would agree with Kipnis that society forces one to feel like a failure when love dies and that people move on because society expects us to, as he questions his

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.

When it comes to predicting how something will make you feel in the future, you will most likely be wrong. In the book Discovering Pop Culture, edited by Anna Romasino, is the article “The Futile Pursuit of Happiness”. In the article, author Jon Gertner talks about how people think certain things bring them happiness but aren’t as fulfilling as they may think. Gertner gives examples by writing about four men that have been questioning how people predict what will make them happy and how they feel after it happens. Among these men are a psychology professor Daniel Gilbert, psychologist Tim Wilson, economist George Loewenstein, and psychologist Daniel Kahneman. Gertner uses facts from scores of

Max Shulman’s piece, “Love is a fallacy” expresses many arguments expressed during every day social interactions. In the piece, the author comes into contact with his roommate, Petey Bellows and a possible love interest, Polly Espy. The author makes many unjustified guess pertaining to their wisdom and intelligence, and these false pretenses contribute to his interactions with the two, and he aims to take advantage of the opportunity of manipulating the two into achieving his own selfish desires. His plan backfires, and he is forced to reconsider his actions. In the process, Max Shulman reveals that his piece is both anti-women, anti-men, and Shulman underestimates the intuitive and emotional aspects of love.

“Clara” by Roberto Bolano is about a guy who meets the love of his life, Clara. She’s attractive, addictive, aloof. After their breakup he continues to love her in the most peculiar way. He watches her loose her youthfulness, and become sick with cancer. After the diagnosis Clara runs off to die leaving every one behind. Though this seems like a tragic love story the gender roles demonstrated leaves the reader to wonder if the narrator loves Clara at all. It begins with the way the narrator focuses on the physical aspects of Clara, the way he continually belittles her intelligence, and it ends with the codependence that the narrator thinks Clara should have with him. A lot of the time when Clara is mentioned it is in reference to her physical appearance, weather it be her body, or her smile: the narrator doesn’t seem to look at her as a person, he sees her as an object. Clara’s intelligence on the other hand is used against her; the narrator makes it a point to undermine her as some ditsy, unintelligent, bimbo. He puts Clara, through what seems like, a very disturbing relationship: then, expects her to come back to him in the end.