Writing Project #1
Tricia L. Schermerhorn
Daniel Miller
Central Methodist University
Introduction to Literature-EN222
March 10, 2018
“Ind Aff or Out of Love in Sarajevo” and “Summer” as love stories
Do you like your coffee black, or do you like the syrup’s, whipped topping, and all the sprinkles? Writing about love stories can bring up so many thoughts and emotions. Just like coffee it can be just the plain black ok coffee that give is that temporary feeling of emotion that is short lived, or it can be with all the sprinkles and good stuff that is like the fairy-tail dream that lives on and on. Love can end friendships or build new ones.
In the short stories of “Ind Aff, or Out of Love in Sarajevo” by Fay Weldon (Meyer p. 136-142) and “Summer” by David Updike (Meyer p. 155-159) the settings for both of these stories are similar in which they start off by describing the surroundings and weather which immediately puts a feeling and description in your head about these stories. In the story of “Summer” we get a
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The couple would rather have got into their rented car, drive off into the countryside, eat a picnic lunch, and make love, however the “Black Cloud” put an end to this due to a downpour which landed when at a restaurant to eat wild boar. While at a restaurant she contemplates if she really loves her professor “lover” or not, while there she realizes she doesn’t wasn’t to be the one to break up a marriage and decides to leave and move on to better things in her life. This story would be the example of the “Black Coffee” or “Black Clouds” it was never set out to be the ending of a fairy tale with all the whipped cream and sprinkles, it was doomed from the beginning by her professor being much older and a married
The 1990s were a period of extreme ethnic conflict in the former nation of Yugoslavia. In 1992, Bosnia-Herzegovina passed a referendum for independence, which was not met with an equal enthusiasm amongst the republic's population. The group most against this independence was the Serbian minority, who were convinced by leaders such as Slobodan Milosovic and psychiatrist Jovan Raskovic in the idea of a "greater Serbia." Serbs were told they needed to dominate the surrounding Croats and Muslims based on their psychological superiority. Serb fighters carried out vicious campaigns of ethnic cleansing, killing over 100,000 people with another 1.5 million being forced from their homes to created predominantly Serbian areas. In 1995 Bosnia Croatia and Serbia signed the Dayton peace accords and focus shifted towards Kosovo, where discord had been emerging between the Albanians and the Serbs.
The last two decades of the twentieth century gave rise to turbulent times for constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, eventually leading them to split apart. There were a number of damaging aspects of past history and of the political and economic circumstances that contributed to the breakup and eventually caused the situation to snowball into a deadly series of inter-ethnic conflicts. Yugoslavia was reunified at the end of the war when the communist forces of Josip Broz Tito liberated the country. Under Tito, Yugoslavia adopted a relatively liberal form of government in comparison to other East European communist states at the time and experienced a period of relative economic and political stability until Tito’s death in 1980. In addition to internal power struggles following the loss of their longtime leader, Yugoslavia faced an unprecedented economic crisis in the 1980’s. As other communist states began to fall in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, some former Communist leaders abandoned communism and founded or supported ethno-national parties, blaming the economic suffering on the flaws of communism and other ethnic groups. The ethnic violence that followed would not have been possible without the willingness of politicians from every side to promote ethno-nationalist symbols and myths through media blitzes, which were especially effective due to low levels of education in the former Yugoslavia. Shadows of the events of World War II gave these politicians, especially the Serbs, an opportunity to encourage the discussion and exaggeration of past atrocities later in the century. The ethnic violence in the former Yugoslavia can be traced back to a series of linked damaging factors such as the de...
The plot of a woman and a man rekindling a lost romance in the midst of a storm is one with a lot of innuendos. ""The Storm" helps to define the sexual standards and restraints of the late nineteenth century" (Bartee 1). The storm causes Bobinot and Bibi to be stuck in the market and wait out the storm, while the housewife, Calixta, sits alone, so into her housework that she doesn't even notice the storm is brewing. When she finally realizes, she hurries to shut the windows and goes outside to get the laundry before it is blown away in the wind. Then she notices Alcee, and he asks for shelter while the storm passes through. Chopin writes the scene almost in the vain of a steamy romance novel, building up to the climax, which in this story is the "climax". She adds a little tension also, when she writes "The growl of the thunder was distant and passing away. The rain beat softly upon the shingles, inviting them to drowsiness and sleep. But they dared not," (Chopin 33). At this point, Bobinot and Bibi are probably on their way home and just what if Calixta and Alcee did fall asleep on the couch, oh the "storm" that would arise if Bobinot and Bibi saw that sight. They don't fall asleep, and they say their goodbyes, and Bobinot and Bibi come home to a worried Calixta and supper on the table. Everybody is happy and Bobinot has no idea that his wife just cheated on him. Chopin also goes onto resolve that Alcee is married, but is happier when his wife is away, illustrated by the letter that he writes to his wife at the end. "He was getting on nicely; and though he missed them, he was willing to bear the separation a while longer realizing that their health and pleasure were the first things to be considered," (Chopin 123).
Love is such an abstract concept for the human mind to figure out. Along with the love of a mother for her child, there are many types of sensual love or brotherly love; friendship is frequently described as a type of love, as well. This abstraction can also be distorted and made to fit into categories that would normally be associated with negativity and abuse not "love." Think of why a woman will continually go back to an abusive spouse with the irrational reason that "he loves me." If he loved you, he wouldn't beat you…Would he? In a poem, the confusion seems only to extend, as writers will describe a beautiful event that is tainted by a bad experience or emotion. In this manner, word choice plays a primary role in determining the actual meaning of the poem. Clare Rossini, in her poem entitled "Final Love Note" and Louise Gluck, in her poem "Mock Orange," both use carefully chosen language to portray different aspects of the concept that we, in individual and often irrational ways, use to explain "love." These particular writers use words of love and hate to explain extremely passionate feelings toward their personal relationships-and nature, an elm tree, and a Mock Orange bush, to be exact.
As previously explained, nearly no love story runs perfectly, but that’s what makes love so special. Love is willing to go through the tough times to be together no matter what may happen. Love is willing to give up everything you have for another person. Love is willing to take the path less traveled. The path that does not run smooth. The characters above all were in love in the best way, and this is what makes their tales so epic.
The unceasing question of what defines love continually inspires writers to share their perceptions with their audience. Throughout our childhood we are naturally inclined to believe and expect what media depicts for us. Disney movies such as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White all follow the standard plot of a beautiful girl and a handsome young man falling in love without any complexity to their relationship. Their newly discovered love for one another forms quite simply throughout the movie and then they live happily ever after. As we mature, our innocence fades and the naïve perception of love slowly begins to be disassembled as we are brought into reality. Simply observing our own parents’ relationship can prove that love does
is a key theme running through. It is important to take into account how this love
The best romantic stories are those with happy endings such as Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty and many other similar stories. In these stories, the ending is so romantic and so content that they even state, “and the prince and the princess lived happily ever after.” Unfortunately, in reality, these ‘happily ever after’ stories do not exist, in contrary, many end up in distress. Some more realistic and mature are the stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: “A New England Nun,” and Edith Wharton: “Roman Fever.” These stories are written in a very romantic way that they may appear similar to those with happy endings but at the end reality hits in its very cruel nature way of life.
Brenda Katten who is the chairman of the Zionist Federation said that, “As Jews, we are quite horrified at what is going on: we lost a lot of our people in the 1930s because the gates were closed on us- What is sad, is that we don’t learn from our history.” (3) This seems to be the recurring theme about genocides: They happen and are an immense tragedy but yet they continue to happen throughout time and all over the world. In the Bosnian genocide in 1992-1998, another group was was exterminate by a group for specific reasons. In this case, an estimated 200,000 Bosnian civilians were killed (2) by Serbians. But all of this conflict can be traced back to the resolutions which transpired at the end of the second world war. (1) After Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia became apart of Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia, when the Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito died in 1980, the union between the several countries under the Yugoslav power seemed to be threatened to separate. When a Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic provoked a dissatisfaction between Serbians in Bosnia and Croatia and their Bosnian and Croatian neighbors, lead to an insuming war. When Milosevic was elected president of the republic of Serbia in 1989, an oncoming movement violent uprisings of several Serb nationalist political parties in neighboring Croatia. These events frightened the other members of Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia, which lead to their uncertainty towards the future of the republic that had just recently been established. As fears engulfed many civilians, a large population of non Bosnian Serbians began to not only boycott the voting of Milosevic, but urge others to take similar measures in March of 1992. These actions lead to the sec...
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Love has many definitions and can be interpreted in many different ways. William Maxwell demonstrates this in his story “Love”. Maxwell opens up his story with a positive outlook on “Love” by saying, “Miss Vera Brown, she wrote on the blackboard, letter by letter in flawlessly oval palmer method. Our teacher for fifth grade. The name might as well have been graven in stone” (1). By the end of the story, the students “love” for their teachers no longer has a positive meaning, because of a turn in events that leads to a tragic ending. One could claim that throughout the story, Maxwell uses short descriptive sentences with added details that foreshadow the tragic ending.
Most people have fallen in love at least once in their lives. I too fall in this category. Just like any Disney movie that you watch, people fall in love with each other, and they get married and live happily ever after right? Wrong! In real life, there are some strange things that can happen, including death, divorce, or other weird things that you never see in Disney movies. Robert Browning’s literary works are great examples of “Non-Fairytale Endings.” Not only does Browning have endings in his stories that aren’t the norm in children movies, but he also has some twisted and interesting things happen in the story of lovers. In Robert Browning’s works, Porphyria’s Lover, and My Last Duchess, the speakers can be both compared and contrasted.
Love has always been a controversial issue throughout centuries. However, it was, and is, still one of the most popular topics in literature. One cannot help but be reminded of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet when that particular topic is brought up, which is one of the finest examples on this topic. Despite all the literary works written about love, love itself remains unexplained. The questions “why” and “when” is often asked –it can usually be answered vaguely or deeply, but sometimes it remains unanswered. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen makes Mr Darcy, who has captured young girls’ hearts for decades, say “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” which is both very informative and a vague answer, when asked by the love of his life. It is vague, because it doesn’t exactly answer the question “when”. On the other hand, it is a perfect answer to describe the mysterious nature of love. It proves that in order to be in love, some time for each part to contemplate on the nature of the emotion must pass after two people meet. In other words, if it is described as that romantic “love at first sight” it’s not the love that brings a happily ever after, but merely a form of cursed obsession that leads to disappointing endings.
Love has the power to do anything. Love can heal and love can hurt. Love is something that is indescribable and difficult to understand. Love is a feeling that cannot be accurately expressed by a word. In the poem “The Rain” by Robert Creeley, the experience of love is painted and explored through a metaphor. The speaker in the poem compares love to rain and he explains how he wants love to be like rain. Love is a beautiful concept and through the abstract comparison to rain a person is assisted in developing a concrete understanding of what love is. True beauty is illuminated by true love and vice versa. In other words, the beauty of love and all that it entails is something true.
The types of love in a poem can be reflected in many ways. One of