Personal Connection to Literature

For summer reading I read two books, The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh and Endurance by Alfred Lansing. In The Loved One, it is mainly about the relationship between Dennis and Aimee and the relationship between Mr. Joyboy and Aimee and how she doesn't know who to love. Aimee get engaged with Dennis but then marries Mr. Joyboy. Later on Aimee feels that it is not going to work. She calls Mr. Slump for help and he said, "Do! I'll tell you what to do. Just take the elevator to the top floor. Find a nice window and jump out. That's what you can do. I told her to go take a high jump." Aimee then followed Mr. Slump advice and went into Mr. Joyboy office and committed suicide by injection. The other book Endurance was about an explorer name Sir Ernest Shackleton and he was the leader of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which was form of twenty-seven men on the ship called the Endurance, and it was to cross the Antarctic Continent. Long story short, the Endurance gets stuck in ice and cannot move and so they left the boat and went to go to South Georgia island and they tried to survival the harsh weather and try to stay alive. There are many themes in the books, The Loved One and Endurance, that related to me, to other books, and to the world.

Both the books I read reminded me of myself and my life. First in The Loved One, when Dennis's friend Sir Francis commit suicide and Dennis had to planned the funeral and how he had to pick a pose, which coffin he should pick and what clothes Sir Francis should wear. It reminded me how when my grandpa dead, my family had to do the same thing as Dennis did for Sir Francis funeral. Dennis was working at a funeral home and cemetery for pet called Happier Hunting Ground and how Mr. Joyboy had to ...

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...of how I did the same with my pet parakeets. The connection with text to text was the similarities between the poem of The Love Song by J. Alfred Prufrock and the book, The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh and how they were both about love and how they have trouble with it and does not know what to do. Lastly, the connection with the two books to the world was in Endurance how on the new you hear about how there is ship missing and people surviving the shipwreck it is just like in the book how they had to survive when they left their ship. There were many connections from the books to my life, to other books, and to the world.

Works Cited

John, Hersey,. Hiroshima. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1989.

Lansing, Alfred. Endurance. New York, New York: Perseus Books Group, 1959.

Waugh, Evelyn. the Loved One. New York, NY: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company, 1948.