Analysis: Ind Aff Or Out Of Love In Sarajevo

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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 …show more content…

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

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