The Theme Of Love In Miss Cynthie?

Love can influence people in mysterious ways, the underlying cause is promise, that there is hope for something greater than oneself. We also see how this can create a chasm between family members. The fact of the matter is, love can stem from various situations, memories, or personal thoughts. There are some forbidden marriages that turn out to be a good thing, there are also parents who want give a home to an unsuspecting child they never knew they wanted. Certain situations determine who a person is through the experiences they are given and the feelings that are felt from it. Most of the stories that have come along are giving to us with an example of separation, a longing for love, an outcome that may or may not be beneficial in the long

It is her visit to the big city that allows her to judge everything and everyone in sight. She finds that manners are admirable and that one of the helpers treated her with kindness, it shows respect. Her grandson, David, shows up seemingly hard at work with one job, but as so as we find out that he is part of a musical, the tone shifts quickly. While she is in the theater for David and sees the show with women dancing in scantily clad clothes she feels such a way, “She sat apart, alone in the box, the symbol, the epitome of supreme failure.” (114) She feels closed off and her religion makes her feel as if all of what is going on is against what she stands for. It isn’t until when David starts singing a song Miss Cynthie sang to him when he was growing up that she felt such resentment, “She leaned forward incredulously, listened intently, then settled back in limp wonder. Her bewildered eyes turned on crowd, on those serried rows of shiftless sinners.” (115) After the moment she feels her eyes go against the crowd, as they are all against her looking at the play, as if she knows the work of negativity is at work. This scene isn’t as cruel as the one in “Marriage is a Private Affair” as towards the end Miss Cynthie receives an

A father fighting for his right, and his family’s respect also does it for his child so they can have a future. We see his love for them as her interacts with his baby, “The chubby fingers fingers immediately caressed his thumb and embraced it tightly. His heart sank, and there was a lump in his throat. He had a strong urge to relieve S’bongile of the child, pick him up in his strong arms and kiss him, but he suppressed the desire.” (45,46) It is after this statement he mentions to her about the love between them much more than he can give. He truly feels and his body is giving all the responses from his throat to his heart sinking. The mother of the child who he’s leaving doesn’t want this to tear them apart, “They stood in silence for a while. She signed deeply and held back the tears. They felt uneasy. It was useless, she thought bitterly. They had gone through with what she considered to be an ill-fated undertaking. (48) She was then told his story as he was a son seeing his father get disrespected in his own home, something he never wants his son to endure. After his story to her she began to see it for what it was, “She sighed, and there were no tears in her eyes now He brushed the back of his hand tenderly over the soft cheeks of the sleeping Gugu and with his dry lips, kissed S’bongile’s brow.” (53) He is doing something for them, when everything that was neutral in the past only