Cortney Harris Melvin English 101 November 19, 2014 American Poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, once said, “I know I am but summer to you heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” Summer is the point in the year where one is free to act however one may feel. When one can have that of childlike behavior and leave it behind once the season ends. David Updike’s “Summer” depicts a young boy, Homer, on a summer vacation who soon discovers his feelings for Fred’s sister, Sandra, but fears she does not feel the same. On the other hand, Susan Minot’s “Lust” portrays a young girl who is searching for love with a variety of guys. According to Merriam Webster, the word “Love” means “a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person, but “Lust” …show more content…
In Updike’s “Summer”, Homer looks at Sandra as more than just a summer fling. He would like to gain a longer lasting relationship with her, but he doesn’t feel that the feeling is mutual. He begins to catch on to her teasing ways, but doesn’t want to get the wrong idea. He was following behind her watching her “pale legs” and her “tripping sneakers”(361) So he left her taking off running recklessly down the path, “howling into the woods”(361) trying to release his tension of his attraction. He stopped and waited for her. When she caught up to him she asked “where’d you go? I thought I’d lost you.”(361). Sadly, all summers come to an end, some earlier than others, but you are left with makes it worthwhile, memories. Opposing this statement, The narrator in “Lust” describes the way each boy approaches her for their sexual desire, a different scene is given for each guy; similarly, with each guy, she is not able to fight the desire to satisfy them. “We started off sitting at one end of the couch and then our feet were squished against the armrest and then he went over to turn off the TV and came back after he had taken off his shirt and then we slid onto the floor and he got up again to close the door, then came back to me, a body waiting on the
Although summer and the autumn are right next to each other, the two seasons are completely different. Ray Bradbury uses the seasons, autumn and summer, to characterize different people in Something Wicked This Way Comes. Bradbury uses the literal description of summer and autumn and translates it onto the characters in his novel. “First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren’t rare. But there be bad and good, as the pirates say. Take September, a bad month: school begins. Consider August, a good month: school hasn’t begun yet,” (Bradbury, 1) September, an autumn month, is considered bad. Bradbury uses this to describe those in the carnival, those who have a sort of wickedness to them. August, a summer month, is a good month for the boys which is why Bradbury uses summer to describe the good in a person. However, Bradbury also mixes the seasons together to represent those who are not only warm, but they have a sort of wickedness to them. Summer versus autumn is used to demonstrate the different characteristics of people within the novel.
Two versions of the story told by two people present at the skating party share insight into the versions they believe to be true, except one story teller has a few secrets that has laid guilt on his mind for over thirty years. Merna Summers’ The Skating Party holds a lesson in love and life; Nathan and Winnie Singleton’s stories are different, Winnie believes Nathan tragically lost his ‘wife to be’ in a skating accident, when in reality Nathan loses a love, no one else but him knows of. Nathan’s thoughts on the mood of the night, and his indirect statement referring to his tragic episode will reveal why the narrator considered it peculiar that Uncle Nathan had never married and who he was really in love with.
For the last couple of years a rumor had been spread about all Muslims being terrorists. People started to believe that all the bombing and shootings that had been going on all over the world are caused by Muslims. This whole terrorism rumor started when a group of people named themselves as Isis, they started killing people in the middle east first and then spread all over the world under the logo we fight for Islam. All Muslims are now paying the consequences of Isis’s actions because it’s blamed on all of us not just them. Now in France Muslim ladies are not allowed to enter some shopping stores like Zara. In the United States some people are nice to us but once they know that we are Muslim, they stop talking to us and starts to treat us bad thinking that we are terrorist. Anyone who watches the new now and hears about bombing or shooting they automatically say
In her story “Currents” Hannah Vosckuil uses symbolism, and a reverse narrative structure to show the story of how unnamed sympathetic and antagonistic characters react differently to a traumatic event. Symbolism can be found in this story in the way that Gary does not mind sitting in the dark alone at the end of the day as well as how both of his girls are affected by the symbolism of hands. One holding a boy’s hand for the first time and the other becoming sick after seeing the dead boy’s hand fall off the stretcher. The sympathetic and antagonistic manner of these characters is shown when both girls are told by their grandmother that they must return to the water to swim the next day. The grandmother sees this simply as a way of encouraging them and keeping them from becoming afraid of the water. However, the girls see this as a scary proposition because of what had happened, showing the grandmother as an antagonist character to the little girls.
In the novel Robert Jordan, who is an American volunteer, and Maria, a Spanish girl, are brought together for three days by a military operation. They are both not prepared for the connection that going to spark between them. Neither of these two have felt the romantic love that they are feeling for one another, and this feeling is very over whelming for them. Through all of the excitement of the war it is hard to tell if this is real true love between them or if it is just lust. Often at times it is hard to tell the difference between love and lust, in real life as well as in literature. This well detailed three day love affair is very convincing. “She sat down opposite him and looked at him. He looked back at her and she smiled and folded her hands together over her knees. Her legs slanted long and clean from the open cuffs of the trousers as she sat with her hands across her knees and he could see the shape of her small up-tilted breasts under the gray shirt. Every time Robert Jordan looked at her could feel a thickness in his throat” (Hemingway 22). As soon as Robert Jordan meets Maria it is not just a normal casual first meet, the can tell that he feels...
"This is a story of boy meets girl, but you should know upfront, this is not a love story" (Webb, 2009). Marc Webb's film (500) Days of Summer, is an unconventional unrequited story about love. Tom Hansen meets Summer Finn at work and instantly knows that she is the girl for him. He takes the viewers on a journey through the highs and lows of his continuously evolving relationship. Webb relies on editing, style, and image to draw viewer interest. Production techniques and narrative are used to portray thoughts, emotions, and motivations of the two characters. In (500) Days of Summer, content and form work together to create a conventional post-modernist and post-classical Hollywood style film.
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"They turn casually to look at you, distracted, and get a mild distracted surprise, you're gone. Their blank look tells you that the girl they were fucking is not there anymore. You seem to have disappeared.(pg.263)" In Minot's story Lust you are play by play given the sequential events of a fifteen year old girls sex life. As portrayed by her thoughts after sex in this passage the girl is overly casual about the act of sex and years ahead of her time in her awareness of her actions. Minot's unique way of revealing to the reader the wild excursions done by this young promiscuous adolescent proves that she devalues the sacred act of sex. Furthermore, the manner in which the author illustrates to the reader these acts symbolizes the likeness of a list. Whether it's a list of things to do on the weekend or perhaps items of groceries which need to be picked up, her lust for each one of the boys in the story is about as well thought out and meaningful as each item which has carelessly and spontaneously been thrown on to a sheet of paper as is done in making a list. This symbolistic writing style is used to show how meaningless these relationships were but the deeper meaning of why she acted the way she did is revealed throughout the story. Minot cleverly displayed these catalysts in between the listings of her relationships.
Love is a universal language; it is something that everyone understands. It does not necessarily have to be spoken of; instead it can be shown through people’s action. In most novels love is an unseen character yet it plays this strong force that moves the story along. Ernest Hemingway writes about a group of people who are trapped in a wearisome game of love. In The Sun Also Rises Jake Barnes, the protagonist, is a journalist whose war injury causes him to be handicapped. He is madly in love with Lady Brett who loves him in return. However, they cannot complete their relationship because of Jake’s injury. Therefore all he can do is helplessly watch as Brett dates other men. Their forbidden love is similar to the story of Romeo and Juliet, however this novel tells us about the scary ventures of love. Hemingway uses dialogue, imagery and omits description of the characters’ emotions to show the tragedies of love.
In William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he strides to portray the tides of love! But even for Shakespeare, It’s quite hard to grasp the understanding of love, for there is always arising complications, that get in the way of lustful love; Throughout the play, Shakespeare, undermines the notion that true love ever existed.
“Love is not just a verb” Kendrick Lamar. This verse in the song Poetic Justice was his way to say what love is and what is not. Love could be confused for lust. Lust for the appearance attraction. Many films and stories portray this type of love. In high school I was assigned to read the story of Romeo and Juliet. This story is a great example of the types of love. Were Romeo and Juliet driven by true love or lust? To start we would have to figure out which type of love if any in the story. Some may say that they lusted over each other, and didn’t love each other. The sexual desire was not the case, it is merely inexperience and immature. There are many instances of love in the story.
Whether you are of the opinion that love is a wonderful thing, love knows no boundaries, or love is blind, one fact remains constant: love is like a snowflake—no two loves or snowflakes are ever exactly alike. In Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd, the heroine, Bathsheba Everdene, has the luck (or unfortunate mishap) of courting not one, or even two, but three suitors during the course of the novel.
Blum, Virginia L. “Love Studies: Or, Liberating Love.” American Literary History, vol. 17, no. 2, 2005, pp. 335–348. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3568037.
The speaker is speaking to his lover as he is constantly comparing her with the season of summer as it is his way of saying that to him she is better than a season that is generally loved by many. An appropriate audience would
... most enjoy in life; warm, youthful, amorous love. These things must stay ever-changing and spontaneous, in order to retain their exclusive exuberance (Wigod 61). Passionate, youthful love belongs to real life, not art; although art can show “marble men and maidens”, life on the urn is still cold, motionless; art can only represent life, it merely scratches the surface when it comes to depicting warm, fluid life, filled with fervor.