Carter English 8 8 May 2012 “Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -Anonymous” Love takes us down paths of bliss or paths of sorrow, which can determine our entire fate. John Greene, author of Looking for Alaska, shows the audience how a male teenager finds love for the first time. Miles Halter, Pudge, finds love in a boarding school in Alabama. Greene brings us down Pudge’s path of falling for Alaska Young then having to deal with her death.
2.Keller starts to open up about his life and how is Jewish wife and son were killed by the Nazi's when Herr Keller used to play for Adlof Hitler personally and thought that his family would be safe because of it. 3. Pauls parents discover that Keller was taught by the famous pianist 4. Paul meets Megan and starts having normal teenage boy desires. He ends up getting punched up because of these desires.
Since Daisy was so desperate to get married, she married Tom instead of waiting for Gatsby. Gatsby and Daisy have an affair and Tom becomes suspicious. Daisy gets mad, saying that she will leave Tom for Gatsby, but when she finds out that Gatsby gets all his money from
Janie is now in search for a husband who loves her and treats her special. She then meets Joe Starks whom is a shrewd and well dressed businessman. They get married and relocate to Eatonville, Florida where he uses his charisma and gift for gab to become Mayor. Through his success, she becomes a solid partner in their marriage which leaves her unhappy. After the unfortunate death of Joe, she moves on to a relationship with Vergible Woods known as “Tea Cake”, however Tea Cake is the man of her dreams who makes her feel loved and appreciated.
The novel Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the story of the man Jay Gatsby. Gatsby was born and raised as a farm boy with the ambitions of a war hero and wealthy businessman. Along the way he encountered a young women Daisy. Daisy was born wealthy and lives in east egg while Jay recently acquired and lives in west egg. Although they are from different worlds, Gatsby falls in love with Daisy is forever mesmerized by her class and beauty.
She takes her place at Jonathan's side, giving him the Dominion Jewel, and Jonathan names her as his King's Champion, the first female Champion in history. Meanwhile, Alanna finds amusement when he falls in love with Thayet and begins to court her. Jon and Alanna agree that they were not right together, but when she looks to George to renew his romance, he treats her as nothing more than a friend. Her brother Thom is rapidly growing ill, poisoned by his own magical mystic Gift, and Alanna is helpless to stop it. Meanwhile, Alanna and Roger have a vicious encounter where they renew their old hatred, and Alanna suspects that Lady Delia and others, including her old rival Alex of Tirragen, are plotting to overthrow Jonathan and put Roger in his place.
Tom doesn’t seem to care that his affair hurts Daisy, he proves this by take Nick (Daisy cousin) to meet his mistress “I want you to meet my girl” (pg24). He seems to ignore Daisy throughout the book until he suspects Daisy is having an affair with Gatsby, and then he seems to come unglued. “I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife” (pg130). Tom’s ego takes a hit when he finds out Gatsby wants something that is
On the oppose side of the marital spectrum, Zeena regularly professes her hypochondria to her husband. However, in response to the sledding accident, she “seemed to be raised right up just when the call came to her” (Wharton 131). This ironic “miracle” proves Zeena’s addiction to martyrdom, emotionally dependent on first her illnesses, then to her vocational role. Although professedly unhappy, she relies on her marriage for a sense of purpose. In an examination of the constancies, it seems as though both wife and husband, woman and man, are reliant upon both one another and their marriage to function
The author Henry James wrote The Turn of the Screw, an intriguing ghost story novella about a governess who has just received a new job to take care of a handsome bachelor's niece and nephew. Soon after the governess moves to the bachelor's country estate, she begins to see a strange man and woman around the house grounds. The maid, Mrs. Grose, identifies the man as Peter Quint, the former valet, and the woman as Miss Jessel, the past governess for the children. Mrs. Grose also says that Quint and Miss Jessel had a relationship and that both were “too free” with the children, Quint especially with Miles, the nephew, and Miss Jessel with Flora, the niece. The governess is then convinced that the ghosts are seeking the children with the intention of corrupting them.
Euripides' use of extended descriptive sentences in the prologue allows him to portray two sides to Medea, a fragile woman and a strong-willed one. During the time in which she was still married to Jason, Euripides draws on the powerlessness of women in a marriage, evident when the Nurse says that 'to Jason [Medea] is all obedience - and... that's the saving thing, when a wife obediently accepts her husband's will.' To further emphasize on the male dominated society of Corinth, Medea, in the presence of King Creon, was immediately ordered to 'remove [herself]'. Despite being exiled due to fear, Medea adheres to the parental role in Creon, saying that '[he is] a father too', manipulating him into giving her one day to plot her revenge. This shows that