In certain stories of creative nonfiction, there can be many similarities to events that have happened to many people. Whether it is things such as the loss of a family member or problems stemming from relationships, there is at least one person in the world who has shared almost the same experience. Even with similar events, there is also the factor of each individual coming up with their own resolutions to their problems. These situations are what affect the stories of Cheryl and Suzanne. In The Love of my Life and The Same Story, there features two main female protagonists who end up in slightly similar circumstances in certain points of their life. Both have had a family member pass away, and that death leads them to do certain things …show more content…
With the death of the mother in The Love of my Life and the father in The Same Story, both start each character’s story off and remain central to how they act during their tales. Cheryl in The Love of my Life keeps thinking about her mother and how she wishes she were still alive to remind her that the acts she is doing during the story, such as sex with multiple partners and her constant cheating on her husband, are immoral and need to be stopped. Her grief over her mother’s death takes the events of the story up until the end to finally have her begin letting go of her, with her losing her mother’s ring being symbolic of that. Likewise, Suzanne in The Same Story grieves over her father’s death and questions whether or not she should have been closer to him when he was still alive. A few months after, she meets a man and has a small relationship with him, which kicks up the rest of the plot. Though her father is not as central to the plot as Cheryl’s story, it still happens at the beginning and helps shape up the plots to both of …show more content…
In the love of my life, Cheryl knows even from the beginning of the story that the thing she is doing is wrong. She sleeps around with other people, constantly cheats on her husband, and has little care about her life or direction. She constantly wishes her mother was still alive to tell her not to do anything she does in the story; she cannot cope and does not have the power in herself to stop what she is doing. Her pregnancy in the climax causes her to be in a state of denial, trying to do everything in her power to try and miscarry it, mostly through longer and longer bouts of jogging, though nothing causes her to miscarry. This also serves as a turning point in her life to try and reflect on all the things she has done. She later decides to have an abortion, divorce her husband, and get her life back together and leave her past and mother
People don’t always deal with the same issues in the same way. In the novel, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, author Michael Dorris explores the perspectives of three women whose stories are tangled together through a history of secrets and lies. Rayona, Christine, and Ida all deal with their own share of hardships throughout the course of the novel. As each new perspective is revealed, it becomes clear that our three protagonists face issues with self discovery, a desire to fit in, and personal growth. Despite that though, each one deals with those problems in different ways. Apologetic, aggressive, and distant--Dorris’s effective use of word choice enables the reader to tap into the mindsets of each of these characters, allowing us to see
both stories shared similar ending and moral which is receiving enlightenment in first hand. "The
Due to series of unfortunate events that occurred in Cheryl’s life, she hit rock bottom as she ended her life in a way no one wants theirs to end, which is to commit suicide. Had she had more support and better influences in her life, but mostly if she had made better choices in her early adulthood, she perhaps would have lived a much happier life.
According to Harris Poll only 1 in 3 Americans are very happy. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” main character Mrs.Mallard and Michele Serros’s “Senior Picture Day” main character the narrator both have similar, but yet very different characters. Mrs.Mallard and the narrator are similar characters because they are both not happy with a certain aspect of their life. Yet are very different because Mrs.Mallard is unhappy about her life with her husband and the narrator is unhappy with her nose. Mrs.Mallard and the narrator also handle their unhappiness in very different ways.
Looking back on the death of Larissa’s son, Zebedee Breeze, Lorraine examines Larissa’s response to the passing of her child. Lorraine says, “I never saw her cry that day or any other. She never mentioned her sons.” (Senior 311). This statement from Lorraine shows how even though Larissa was devastated by the news of her son’s passing, she had to keep going. Women in Larissa’s position did not have the luxury of stopping everything to grieve. While someone in Lorraine’s position could take time to grieve and recover from the loss of a loved one, Larissa was expected to keep working despite the grief she felt. One of the saddest things about Zebedee’s passing, was that Larissa had to leave him and was not able to stay with her family because she had to take care of other families. Not only did Larissa have the strength to move on and keep working after her son’s passing, Larissa and other women like her also had no choice but to leave their families in order to find a way to support them. As a child, Lorraine did not understand the strength Larissa must have had to leave her family to take care of someone else’s
The mother of the three daughters in the novel is Mah. Mah’s first marriage was to a man named Dulcie Fu. This marriage was a relationship that was founded solely on infatuation. Mah was young and thought she was in love. Soon after the first daughter Leila was born, her husband up and left to Australia and never returned. This happens all too often in today’s society. Young women in America become overly infatuated without even knowing what a relationship involves. The media portrays relationships at a young age as perfect and unending. However this is rarely the case. According to divorcestatistics.org, “50% of marriages end in divorce of couples married under the age of 25.” Love means something different to everyone. Each person seeks different points of interest in a relationship, and what you put into a relationship will rarely be equal to what you get back. Love can leave a scar on your heart but also healing to your soul.
Towards the middle of the memoir, the theme is shown through the irony of Jeannette’s mother’s situation as well as Jeannette’s feelings towards
dealt with and the individual moves on. Susan Philips and Lisa Carver explored this grieving
Unquestionably Cheryl has definitely had a hard time trying to cope with the death of her mother. Based on the expressive descriptions that Cheryl gave of their relationship, the reader can feel the painful emotions that Cheryl displayed in the wake of her mother’s death. Adjusting the grief that is expressed when you lose a loved one can be more than a challenge. While Cheryl faces these challenges she continues to mourn in a way that shocks her friends, her husband, and even herself. Losing her mother was like losing a large portion of herself and the different ways that she coped can be regarded as a detriment to her character. One of these detriments includes Cheryl participating in sexual activities with random men and infrequen...
There are two stories this semester that have been particularly interesting. ‘Paul’s Case’ by Willa Cather is a turbulent story about Paul, a young man who eventually spirals downwards into his eventual suicide. ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story about a woman forced into the resting cure by means of her husband until being alone with her thoughts drives her to insanity. At face value, these stories have vastly different plots and outcomes. How are you able to compare stories with different plots? When the ideas behind the stories are similar, it becomes possible. These two stories have many parallels which will be discussed in detail throughout this essay.
Thus, when people experience loss, their lives change. Just like Blanche, A delicate lady who couldn’t find her way in the challenging and intolerant world we live in after her husband died. As a result, she built her own world, where she lived all her illusions, but in the process, she ended up destroying all that really matters; her personality, relationships, and wellbeing. As Robert Louis Stevenson said “Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
Narrator of a first story initially decides to leave her family and neglects her family obligations, but then she comes back, the feeling of responsibility is stronger. Lousie's inside conflict is not so visible, but more subtle; initially she hesitates how to determine her own feelings.
When we find a love interest and have an opportunity to commit to him or her, we usually do, not noting the consequences we may face by doing so. The first few times around, however, the outcome is usually not the one we had expected and hoped for. Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God portray two young women on their trek to find the perfect love. Even though Carrie Meeber and Janie Crawford have almost nothing in common, they both shared the impact of the same consequences. Carrie and Janie show how people of countless numbers of backgrounds can share the same experiences and consequences through their journey of love.
In the story “Two Kinds”, the author, Amy Tan, intends to make reader think of the meaning behind the story. She doesn’t speak out as an analyzer to illustrate what is the real problem between her and her mother. Instead, she uses her own point of view as a narrator to state what she has experienced and what she feels in her mind all along the story. She has not judged what is right or wrong based on her opinion. Instead of giving instruction of how to solve a family issue, the author chooses to write a narrative diary containing her true feeling toward events during her childhood, which offers reader not only a clear account, but insight on how the narrator feels frustrated due to failing her mother’s expectations which leads to a large conflict between the narrator and her mother.
...ty to see things rationally. Regret is something that none of the women feel. Shock and surprise (if not more extreme remorse when Mrs. Mallard realizes her husband's alive) kills her at the end of the story. Calixta had her affair and settles back down with her husband before anything is found out. Marriage was pleasing for these women before they had the opportunity at the freedom to express themselves- whether sexually or personally. They ended up finding out something about themselves that they weren't even aware of before. Marriage can be a form of repression and can become dull, but it can also be wonderful and a valued friendship. Current times are lucky times, especially for American women because now women are freer than ever to take charge--in or out of the bedroom.