audience to connect in a real-life situations which generate the potential in the short stories. Louise Erdrich’s “Love Medicine” is a fantastic piece that represents a story analysis work in the culture of writing. Erdrich short stories are based on encouraging women to remain strong with their identity to reflect and acknowledge the power they have. Many stories always carry many themes for example, “Love Medicine” the short story refers back to women’s rights movement and its critical role…
What is Love? When searching for the definition of love in the dictionary one would expect to find one simple statement that clearly defines the word; however when you look up the word “love” in the dictionary you find multiple definitions. The truth is there is not a set definition for the word love because it has a different meaning to each individual. Love is a complicated phenomenon that affects everyone differently. In the short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” it is…
The short story, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver, invalidates the struggles and the lives of women, especially those that have dealt with trauma and abuse. The lack of empathy for Terri, the lack of recognition of abusive relationships do nothing to prevent or provide education on domestic violence, and the absence of support marginalize women. Terri, Mel’s second wife, was in two consecutive abusive relationships. She had lived with Ed, a man that “loved her so…
Encoded Love The clock rang three times when I was leaning on the window. The cool winds softly came into my bedroom, seemed trying to calm down my anxious heart. I was looking for something important, so important that it may influence my whole life. I look down at the empty street, finding out that the passengers were a little bit fewer than yesterday. Even in such a busy commercial street, you can’t expect that there would still be people over here at night during the war time. Yes, the war…
God’s love and what he has done in me through his love. I believe that there is no greater belief than the love God has for me and everyone around me. God shows his love for us because when we were all still sinners he sent Christ to die for us. God gives us a commandment to love one another and if we love one another then people will see God’s love through us. I strive to show people that love. I believe that the greatest commandment is to love others as Christ as loved us first. God’s love is…
Tough love Tough love is an expression used when someone treats another person harshly or sternly with the intent to help them in the long run, to use tough love you need to feel actual love for the person behind this action! It sounds much like I have taken the sentence from the dictionary and you would be right, because that’s exactly what I did to try and gain some insight to what that really means. Much like I was looking for a way to understand the reason this has to happen, and the words…
Too often we assume that the people we love really know we love them. The next story I’m going to talk about is the relationship between two twin sisters, Lisa and Linda. When Lisa and Linda were children they used to everything together from going on double dates to attending the same college and getting…
It will be white, how I love white. Like a blooming-" “White is the colour of solemnity, of mourning. It would be bad luck.” His voice a slice, a closing door. I never liked closing doors. “I don’t believe in such things. White is my colour, my chosen colour.” My voice negating…
Love in L.A. is a short fiction story narrated from the third point of view by Dagoberto Gilb where he describes an incident that Jake has while he is stuck in the traffic in the Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles. Gilb mentions that while Jake was driving in the freeway, he was daydreaming about a car that he desired to possess and about a love of a materialistic life which he calls “freedom” (35). However, because he was daydreaming about his love of life, Jake does not pay attention and has a…
The three act structure used in the short film “George Lucas in Love” shapes the story through the use of a set-up, confrontation/build up, and climax/resolution. By following this basic three-act structure, this short film successfully tells an entertaining story that delicately weaves details reminiscent of both Star Wars and Shakespeare in Love, without losing the audience if they’re not familiar with either of the stories. Act I – The Set Up In act one the audience meets the protagonist,…