The Namesake Relationships can teach a person more about themselves, and who they are. In The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, she shows how Gogol suffers an identity crisis, but throughout his romantic relationships he learns to accept his background. Gogol’s three girlfriends Ruth, Maxine, and Moushumi, all teach Gogol a lesson and help him discover how he feels about his Bengali culture. Gogol had never been the kid to have many girlfriends, but at a college party one night, Gogol met an American girl named Ruth, and they immediately grew fond of each other. Ruth was Gogol’s first serious relationship, but she was not what Gogol’s parents approved of.
The first marriage proposal we witness in “Wuthering Heights” is between Catherine Earnshaw and Edgar Linton. This is told during a somewhat heated conversation between Catherine and, our narrator, Nelly Dean. Catherine talks about ‘why’ she loves Edgar, using material and appearance in most answers: “Well, because he is handsome and pleasant to be with… and because he is young and cheerful.” Nelly ensures the reader understands that this is a marriage built on practicality for Catherine. This, as it is the first marriage in the story, paints marriage in a poor light. In Jane Eyre not much happens by the way of love throughout the opening half of the story before Jane meets Rochester.
We begin with Jack and Algernon are having a chat about ‘Bunburying’ where both show conflicting views on the subject. The conversation moves onto the matter of love and how they have both fallen in love and subsequently both arranged to be christened in the evening of the name Ernest to impress their ladies. Gwendolen and Cecily then question Jack and Algernon on their deception as Ernest. The ladies are satisfied with their answers and they fall into each other’s arms just as Lady Bracknell walks in. Cecily tells Lady Bracknell how she is engaged to Algernon and after much questioning gives her consent to the marriage.
After fifteen years on the road, Leroy seems like a stranger to Norma Jean, he likes to lay on the couch and smoke joints and listen to Norma Jean play the piano, this is his entertainment for being away so long. Norma Jeans doesn’t believe that Leroy or anybody for that matter understands her anymore. She started to improve her body physically and started eating healthy and enrolled in a night class. She clashes with her mother, Maybell, who still treats her like a child, and also doesn’t understand the changes going on in Norma Jean’s life. Maybell “caught” Norma Jean smoking which made Norma Jean realize that she was not a child anymore and she was a woman and she didn’t deserve to be treated like she did and realized that even before her mother caught her smoking that she was not happy.
Eleanor tries to hide from Richie, her awful step dad at Park’s house but Park’s mother doesn’t seem to accept Eleanor until she learns about her home life and from then on Park’s parents are supportive and caring to Eleanor. After an amazing first formal date together, Eleanor comes home hoping Richie doesn’t know about Park. This is her worst nightmare, Richie found out and to top that Eleanor finds out that Richie was the one writing the obscene, sexual comments on her textbooks. Scared for her life, Eleanor runs to Park’s house and he drives her to her uncle in Minnesota. Once they arrive to her uncle’s, they come to the fact that they have to say goodbye.
Not My FRIEND The piece titled “Where are you going, Where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of a fifteen year old girl named Connie on her summer break. Connie lives with her father, mother and her older sister June. “She had a quick nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors or checking other people’s faces to make sure her own was all right” (225). Her mother with age had lost her looks, She noticed Connie’s habit and scolded her for it. She picked on Connie for being pretty, “what the hell stinks?
Dorothy and her mother had a great relationship, they where always making fun of aunt Lucy and how she was the ideal mother and wife. One day, when Dorothy is a grown woman, her mother dies. Meanwhile, aunt Lucy had lost her husband and has turned 75, so she is an old lonely woman. Of gratitude for all the summer holidays Dorothy had spend at aunt Lucy’s, she invites her to stay at her place for a couple of days, so she doesn’t have to be alone while she is grieving over her sisters death. At first Dorothy can’t even recognize aunt Lucy, she has always pictured her as this kind chatty woman, but now she is cold and quiet.
In an article entitled A Summary and Analysis of How I Met My Husband by Baron, Henry J. says that Edie the protagonist of the story is both eager and innocent as she becomes aware of her blossoming womanhood with a romantic twist.. This means that Baron was saying that even though the protagonist was young she was also eager in finding a kiss or romance like that of her sister and her boyfriend. Edie the protagonist also becomes aware that Chris Watters the pilot at the fairgrounds across the street where she was working for a family as the hired help. Chris is also an important character of the story mainly because of the way he is projected at first the one Edie marries and Chris also gives her first kiss. As the story progresses it turns out that the plot in the story changes.
My brother and I stayed at my Grandpa’s house most of the time she was up there mostly only going home to sleep and get ready for school the next day, it was weird and confusing but my grandpa was good at getting our minds off of things and keeping our spirits up when he needed to. While my grandmother was in the hospital, my brother and I didn’t get to go see her, we were either too young to go in or my parents didn’t think we should see her that way, I can’t remember. When she finally came home, they said the disease was gone but she was still very sick. She looked completely different and she was very weak. They had started her on chemotherapy, and from what I understand
Well, to be accurate, they catch one another’s eyes. That same day they end up befriending one another because their friend Isaac introduces them to each other and then leaves him and her alone. She then ends up going to his house that day and meets his parents. Soon enough, she and Augustus are flirtatious friends and talk to each other about everything. Hazel shares her favorite book, An Imperial Affliction, with Augustus, and together they obsess about the unsolved ending.