Saved by Love

He hurts when his heartbroken mother dies, which leads him to lack sympathy for others when he only wants sympathy for himself. After twelve years, he has no knowledge that he has a father that actually exists, and no answer to who his father may be. This leads him to feel alone and desperate to find love in any way that he can do so. Already he hurts because his mother’s death, but Heathcliff has no regards when he torments Linton’s spiritual being and physical being. Additionally, despite Linton’s conquest for love, Linton’s father despises him to a point that leads Linton to be rude and to display the characteristics of hate toward the one person he truly loves.

It would be entirely wrong for me to describe my childhood as alone, unwanted, vulnerable, and hurt. I am privileged; I grew up with both my parents giving me more love and attention than I could hold. Most times I grew to hate all the constant affection and attention. To me, it seemed like my overprotective parents didn’t want me to have fun and live. I didn’t understand why they cared so much about where I was going or why I couldn’t go hang out with my friends.

As we left, my older brother cried. He had never acted like this nor was this his intention. I was angry with my dad, but more furious at my mom for making us come back the following week. My hopes of them being separated was destroyed. Many wish to have their parents together.

It leads him to not know how to love or how to act when he was in a relationship. It leads him to be in bad relationship just like his parents. He was starting to repeat the same environment that his mother and father created for him. He could not tell his girlfriends that he loved them even thought he knew that he did. When he was having an argument with Theresa he admitted he was afraid of intimacy.

One day, my father said that he did not want a child like me, with impediment to talk like a normal person. Then, he wanted me out of the house. This comment about my father destroys myself, because I believe that I am not a normal person

I still at that point had zero clue, whether or not I truly wanted to live with my dad. To make matters worse there was constant propaganda from both of my parents, as to how bad of a parent the other one was. I felt as though I was ... ... middle of paper ... ...he right decision? Was my dad going to never want to see me ever again? These were tough questions for young kid to handle.

He'd laugh. They enjoyed it.” (Camus 13). Once Meursault left his mother, he had no need to ever see her again, according to his id, as caring for his mother offered no benefit to him. The two never truly know each other, leading to Meursault to develop an Oedipal Complex. Another cause of this dysfunctional relationship is the fact that Meursault was the one who sent her to a home.

He gives me no hint as to what my mother was like, perhaps because of his inclination to leave the past in the past. As for my brother, I can only imagine the impact that her death had on him. He was only four years old when he witnessed the whole gruesome ordeal, and I often feel that it is not my place to inquire about her, stirring up feelings he has deliberately suppressed for so many years. Although it can be argued that I have two mothers with twice the love and twice the caring, I sometimes feel that I have no mother at all. I get jealous easily when I see the bond that many people share with their mother.

The lack of communication with the parents overflows to the Alan because the parents do not have a ste... ... middle of paper ... ...n both novels, dysfunction tears apart each family. Lack of communication emerges as the main motif in both novels. In Equus the disconnection between the parents and also between Alan’s parents and himself adds to Alan’s social awkwardness. In The Stranger detachment results in an unloving relationship between a mother and her son. In contrasting the two novels, in Equus Alan’s parents attempt to have a relationship and communicate with one another while in The Stranger the relationship between Meursault and his mother is non-existent.

They did not have sex until marriage and the father was mildly dissapointed that the mother did not have money. Description of the house follows, very high ceilings, old mansion it seems, with chimney stains, it has been let go. Jumps in time to narrators ex-husband making fun of narrator fantasizing about stains. Next paragraph is the father in a retirement home, always referring to things: ‘The lord never intended.’, shows how old people have disdain for new things, the next generation appears to be more and more sacreligious. Shows streak of meanness when ‘spits’ out a reference to constant praying, narrator claims he does not know who he is talking to, but appears to be the very pious mother.