Motherly love

Deerslayer Sisters throughout history have been to eachother: friends, playmates, adversaries, confidantes, soul mates and “significant others”, but the most important bond they share is their sisterly love. This bond stands out and sets it apart from all others. The sisterly love that Judith and Hetty Hutter possessed never seemed to reach its full potential. This may be due to the fact that they were sisters who were different in every way possible. This sisterly conflict creates great

A few years ago, I was given my first computer and was introduced to the World Wide Web, and America Online (AOL) chat rooms. It never occurred to me that I would meet someone online that I would consider being in a relationship with, nor talk to more than a few times. I thought wrong. In today's society where almost anything and everything is done online, online dating is not an uncommon or taboo thing to do anymore. There are numerous websites with billions of subscribers, who pay up to forty

Finding Truth in Lies in A Farewell to Arms    The foundation of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms is based on lies. Hemingway exposes the reality, or truth, of love and war by presenting the story of Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, lives ironically entrenched in lies. Henry in particular assumes a different role at every turn, pretending, for example, to be a soldier, a civilian, a doctor or Barkley's dead fiancé.   The lies in Henry's life begin when he joins the Italian army

distance" has a much closer relationship theme than "My grandmother". Long distance focuses on love that does not end with death and it continues however "My grandmother" focuses on the miss of love that could have been there. Both of the two poems are about the lack of acceptance and memory. In

In Shakespeare’s play, Twelfth Night or What you Will, the characters are involved in a plot complete with trickery, disguise, and love. Each character is defined not by his or her gender or true identity, but by the role they are forced to take because of the complicated situation that arises. Unlike their gender, the speech the characters give an insight to their true personalities. In the Twelfth Night, the character Duke Orsino uses flowery and over-dramatic language, long poetic sentence

Vergible “Tea Cake” Woods hoped to attend a baseball game in Eatonville, but he somehow ended up sauntering into the beautiful Janie’s store. Tea Cake’s happy-go-lucky nature attracted her. "Janie looked down on [Tea Cake] and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place" (122). This was something new and fresh--something Janie had not experienced with anyone else. Eventually, they were married. However, ironically, by teaching Janie how to use a rifle, he in turn provided

Western world convention dictates, primarily through religious teachings, that a marriage should be comprised of one male and one female. Polygamy is legal in some countries, under Islamic law, and in some African nations. Based upon their religious and cultural foundations, the system of polygamist marriages has stood successfully for centuries in those countries. In Western culture, there have been attempts to establish polygamist groups, primarily based upon differing religious viewpoints; however

their virtues, and love them because we can't help it. Anonymous "And nature swears, the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice hand she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O." Robert Burns Wedding Toasts - To the parents "A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive." Samuel Taylor Coleridge "For a wife take the daughter of a good mother." Thomas Fuller It is written: when children find true love, parents find true

when she signs the letters "love." "Ted Lavender was shot in the head on his way back from peeing. He lay with his mouth open" (12). Linda is the most important woman in the book. Even though she shows up in the end of the book for the one story, she was Tim O'Brien's first love. "I just loved her. She had poise and great dignity. Her eyes, I remember, were deep brown like her hair, and she was slender and very quiet and fragile-looking" (228). This shows how much he loves her, he can recall much

Love Hurts With divorce rates of today being at an all time high, people say that marriage has lost its value. It is also said that it is rare to find a happy relationship. Edgar Lee Masters seemed to believe the same about the romantic relationships of his time, as well. Masters conveys theses feelings through some of the characters of his work, Spoon River Anthology. Edgar Lee Masters uses unhappy marriages as a common factor in the deaths of many of the characters including Margaret Fuller Slack