The Broken Heart

“Alcohol, Scars, and Broken Hearts” I hear yelling… again. I go see what’s going on, even though in the back of my head, I already know what I’m walking into. I see angry shadows on the wall, coming from the small bathroom that sits on the left side of the narrow hallway. I walk in and see who those angry shadows belong to, my mom and clearly intoxicated dad. “I can’t do this anymore Bobby. I want a divorce.” At the time, I had no idea what a “divorce” was, but seeing that my mother was evidently

Medea, Cruel Monster or Heart-Broken Mistress? Euripides’ Medea is a play that focuses on Medea, first wife of Jason, and her path to vengeance when he abandons her for another woman. We can sympathize with some of Medea’s actions and feelings while others we despise. For, deserting his own children and my mistress, Jason has taken a royal wife to his bed, ... She lies without food and gives herself up to suffering, Wasting away every moment of the day in tears. (17-18, 24-25) Jason has abandoned

street corner in Chicago -- these neighborhoods are our neighborhoods, and these children are our children.” The United States was in shock and sorrow. President Obama spoke about the tragic Sandy Hook school shooting. He called his speech, “Hearts Are Broken.” He used ethos, logos, pathos, and other rhetorical devices such as idiom, allusion, and diction in his speech. He wanted to bring the nation together. Ethos is an appeal to ethics. President Obama uses ethos in this speech. He states, “May

“People change for two main reasons: their minds have opened or their hearts have been broken” I could remember looking the man in his eyes telling him I hated him. I could smell a faint scent of men’s cologne and weed in the air and then being only 3 it happen it set in my mind. He hit her,he hit my mom and I watched and I stood there, because in all honesty what was i supposed to do. The tall dark man loomed over me as I sat on the floor and looked at him threw my long eyelashes. I always

it’s such a great topic for stories. However, getting your heart broken at some point in your life is inevitable. For some, it happens more than once. This is the case for our main character in the short story “The Rental Heart”, by Kirsty Logan. To begin with, the reader has no clue as to whether the main character is a boy or a girl. In my head though, I got the image of a girl. The story is about this girl, who gets her heart broken over and over again, by boys as well as girls (she is bisexual)

Imagery in “The Broken Heart';      John Donnes’ poem “The Broken Heart'; is full of imagery, used to portray his broken heart. Donne uses the imagery so we can get a visual picture of what love means to him. He uses the imagery because it’s necessary to see a picture of the pain he lives with. Donne uses several aspects of imagery, including death to show his grief and Donne also does uses despair to display his pain.      The

Fitzgerald, the author uses the actions of Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby to portray that betrayal as an irreversible action one can never truly move past. The theme of betrayal is represented by a broken red heart on the poster. Hearts represent love, and betrayal is represented by the shattered heart. A broken heart is a metaphor of intense emotional pain. The characters in the novel go through a lot of events. They experience love and betrayal, which leaves them in a shocked situation. Moreover, the colour

unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission towards him, and I gave my whole heart to the smiter!

away from him. The friend was so distraught that he went to her grave and laid beside the corpse. We are to assume that he died right there. The poem is just not about the love between two people but it is about the heart break the man felt and obviously died from a broken heart. The characters in "Annabel Lee" are very non-descriptive. We only know that there are two major characters, the narrator and Annabel Lee. Edgar Allan Poe wrote this poem in 1849. There is no relationship status given

True Friends and The Broken-Hearted: The Pigman Paul Zindel A wise man once said, “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love,” (Hubert H. Humphrey, Brainy Quotes). John and Lorraine, sophomores and the narrators of Paul Zindel’s The Pigman are great friends to the aging and lonely Angelo Pignati. What started off as a prank call, turned into a rewarding friendship and ended in the tragic death of Mr. Pignati. It can be proven that John and Lorraine are in no way responsible for this