Contrasting Feelings In 'The Rental Heart'

Through life, people experience many kinds of love. Many people often believe they love someone, when they actually do not because they may not know what the word means. As much as we want to understand love, it is still simply indescribable. As C.S. Lewis tries to explain it in his book, The Four Loves, it is still a mystery as to what love truly means. I believe in order to know what love means, one must experience it. It is quite true that went two individuals are in love with each other, they know it and can feel it. No matter how much love is studied and looked at, every individual must experience it to understand it. Along with this love lies circumstances which lead

Throughout our lives, many of us crave and strive to be loved and cherished. Many find purpose and happiness when they share reciprocated affection with another person. Heartbreak often occurs when what we wished for in a relationship is not returned in the same manner. Miranda in “Sexy” by Jhumpa Lahiri felt this at the end of her relationship with a married man named Dev. He had treated her unlike anyone else before. This caused her to believe their relationship meant the same to him as it did to her, despite him being married to another women. Mr. Kapasi in “Interpreter of Maladies” found affection towards a woman who was cold towards her family, but was warm and showed great interest in him. He had started to believe she was different

Love is a powerful emotion that every human being has experience at least once in their life. There are numerous connotations that refer to this emotion, but there is only one kind of love that can make a person change completely in unexpected ways. It is the kind of love that consumes the soul and everything within. Mixed with excitement, adventure, heartbreak, happiness and joy; it is a big ball of feelings, all concentrated in one simple, yet extremely complicated necessity to have, protect, please and give all of oneself to that one person. In certain occasions, love can grow very intense and, consequently,

One of the most complicated experiences in life, love cannot be precisely defined, but some basic indications help to characterize the feeling. Love is a very deep, passionate affection one person has for another or a relationship of the same nature that implies a unique intensity of emotion. It requires an especially strong connection and compatibility between two people, usually identified by a total understanding and respect for each other and a fundamental similarity in ideology. Love can also be seen in the way it alters people’s normal behavior; when someone is in love, the object of their affection seems like the most important thing in the world, and they do extreme things for that feeling to be requited. Love cannot easily be

Love is a variety of different emotional and mental states, typically strongly and positively experienced, that ranges from deepest interpersonal affection to simple pleasure. This value is precious amongst all humans, it is what makes or breaks us. Not only does love remind us of a time that was relevant or memorable,

What is love? Love is some good feeling to some thing and someone, and it occasionally makes people awkward. When we hear “story about love”, people likely to imagine that romantic story between man and women like I did so. Title led me to think that the story was going to about the romantic love story in L.A. However In the story Dagoberto Gilb, “Love in L.A.” " Approaching Literature: Reading, Writing, and Thinking, 3rd ed. Peter Schakel and Jack Ridi, eds. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2009. 113-115. Print. Love is not described in this way, but this story shows, instead, love in reality life using car accident, and also love for possibilities in life.

Love is a beautiful thing. The ability to feel is a gift that we should all cherish. However, there are people who are so lost that they abuse their gift to feel. They start spiral into self-destruction by hurting themselves and others emotionally and even physically. Secretly they are crying for someone’s help by doing these hostile actions, but others take it as being malevolent and apathetic. The narrator of “Diary of an Oxygen Thief” by anonymous has the same experience as every person on this planet who believe they are broken and want to feel something. The narrator accounts the experiences of how all of his troubles began that left him the way he is now in his diary. The narrator seeks the bane of affections, but one day it will come

The dust. The endless waiting. The couple next door constantly fighting. She hung a white sheet from a rope and called it a curtain and behind the white curtain she lay down on her cot and she closed her eyes and she slept.” (Page 94)

Love comes in numerous ways and can be expressed in countless fashions. Love is powerful, has a meaning, and is capable of eclipsing time all due to the human psyche. One can love anything from a family member, to a fictional character in a TV show, or even an inanimate object. The fluidity of love is what makes it so difficult to understand if one is “in love” or has ever experienced love. Experiences often mold a person’s perspective on what love truly is. Love is not an emotion, but rather a condition of the mind that cause one to act in ways that are uncharacteristic. It can be blinding, obsessive, and pure, depending on the reciprocation of the love. Since love is an abstract concept, one simply cannot measure how much love they have received or given alike. Although the human brain can perceive and interpret other’s actions or words as signs of love and care, in which the mind processes this into the mental psyche that is love.

“My eyes filled with tears, I thought of my brother, and i thought of my stepfather, who was probably scrubing a piece of furniture with a wad of steel wool, is knuckles a nest of wiry fibers. I thought of Mom with a telephone to her ear, and my dead father on his rack of blackness, lighting up the earth with his glow of bones.”(Page 101)

Love is one of the strangest, but most powerful emotions that a person could feel. It can make a person or break one. The classic

It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment. When you learn how to love someone, you learn how to live life. Love is something that is located deep down in everyone’s life’s whether it is apparent or hidden. But, at one point or another in everyone’s life, you will be heartbroken or be the one breaking hearts, but after everything, you will start to truly understand that once you lose something,

“ She had no clothes, no jewels, nothing. And these were the only things she loved; she felt that she was made for them.( …)(at the ball) All the men stared at her, inquired her name, and asked to be introduced to her. All the Under-Secretaries of State were eager to waltz with her. The Minister noticed her(…)(after) the necklace was no longer round her neck!…(Her husband) He gave notes

   Love is one of the most confusing emotions that one can experience. It is simple yet complicated, unconditional but demanding, overused and unique. It is hard to explain what its means to feel love, to feel loved, or to be in love, however, there are aspects of love that are easily expressed. For example, ones unquestionable affection to the one they love, or the hardships and sacrifice that is endured for loved ones, and the underlying fact that once it is experienced it is not easily dismissed. The play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller describes love in just these ways, and, most of all, as the ultimate moral value that is the eternal bond that keeps people together. One can

Love has many different meanings to different people. For a child, love is what he or she feels for his mommy and daddy. To teenage boy, love is what he should feel for his girlfriend of the moment, only because she says she loves him. But as we get older and "wiser," love becomes more and more confusing. Along with poets and philosophers, people have been trying to answer that age-old question for centuries: What is love?