Love is a human necessity. Whether one receives it from friends or family, feeling wanted gives one reason to live their life to the fullest. In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield, a teenage boy, is desperate for true companionship without it being “phony”. He continually falls through hard times without anyone close to him helping him along, as he pushes them all away. In At a Window by Carl Sandburg, the narrator claims he would rather have hunger, poverty, and pain rather than being without love.…
Revered as the culmination of all his work, C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces is the recipient of scholars’ praise and the author’s favoritism. Scholars praise Lewis for his ability to transform a narrow classical myth into a universally applicable story. While this universality owes itself to the fictitious nature of the novel, it is also rooted in the theme of love. In order to fully elucidate the concept of love as he understood it, Lewis published The Four Loves. He first distinguishes between two base forms of love: need-love and gift-love.…
Love is an emotion of strong attraction and personal attachment toward someone thus, it’s challenging to overcome the feeling when you are isolated from the loved ones. However, the main characters, Sheila and Mr. Sikirski in “The Curlew’s Cry,” have benn living their life detached from their adored ones keeping their cold hearts inside them quietly. Throughout the story the author, J. Leslie Bell has outlined two characters in certain characteristics. Sheila and Mr. Sikirski have opposite personalities but they are both loving and caring as well.…
In Lois Lowry’s engaging novel The Giver, we meet a young boy named Jonas who lives in a restricted community where everything is planned out perfectly, when Jonas turns twelve his world is turned upside down when he receives the job, the Receiver Of Memory. As entitled Jonas receives memories and this changes his life forever, he receives memories of joy and pain, this drastic change shows Jonas what him and the community had missed out on for so long. “ Life is meaningless without memories” memories provide joy, pain, and resilience and provide individuality so life with no memories would truly be, meaningless.…
Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you had never experienced what love felt like? In the dystopian story, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas, the main character must run away from the community to find a better life, a safe place where love is expressed and told to one another. Jonas has a difficult time trying to find the place where The Giver told him to go to, a place where love existed. In the community, there are strict rules you have to follow and f you do not follow the rules, you would get thrown out of the community. Therefore being a Receiver is a punishment.…
At one training session Jonas asks the Giver what his favorite memory is. The Giver responds by showing Jonas a memory of a family at Christmas with a fire and love. “‘I liked the feeling of love,’ he confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening ‘I wish we still had that,’”(p.126). Jonas liked the feeling of love, but thought it was a dangerous way to live.…
Love remains a frequent topic in literature because of the countless opportunities to explore emotions and to delve into the human psyche to ponder what truly causes someone to love another person. Furthermore, love is multifaceted, and Hawthorne focuses on a different aspect of love within a relationship in each of his two stories. Although “The Birth-Mark” and “The Minister’s Black Veil” both contain elements of Puritan society, delineate the relationship between a man and his partner, and consider how far love can drive a person, each story examines a different kind of love that a man and a woman have for each other. Georgiana unconditionally loves Aylmer in the same way that Mr. Hooper unconditionally loves Elizabeth, but both of their respective partners, Aylmer and Elizabeth, conditionally love them and fixate upon a single, minute detail, the birthmark and the veil, which they perceive…
When we are around a person we love, we act differently than we would if we are around a stranger. Each one of the three stories mentioned above has love in them. First, we will start out with a summary, to get a better understanding of the literary piece that is being analyzed. Then discuss how love plays in all of these pieces.…
Jonas learns that the Giver and him are the only two people in the community that share emotions and feelings which greatly impacts him. Jonas thinks he has gained much respect from his community, but when his friends…
The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, is about a boy named Jonas who lives in a community happily following the rules of the community. Everything changes when Jonas is chosen as Receiver of memory in which he will be experiencing learning things that are kept well away from the citizens of the community. Lowry’s characterization of Jonas reveals the importance of freedom through her development of the rules of the community, Jonas’s time with the Giver, and Jonas’s decision to leave the community. The community’s rules emphasizes that freedom is necessary to make choices.…
As humans, we’re almost all hardwired to search for love. Love is something that is said to be one of the most sought-after things in life. Love comes in the form of lovers, family, friends, and even self-love. To some, love is the saving grace by which people can find redemption. To others, love is a prison, something that creates weaknesses in people.…
The book, Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, and the movie, The Giver, directed by Phillip Noyce, each portray the story of a community that is trying to achieve or maintain a form of utopia. Although there are many differences in the way utopia is achieved and ultimately the way it falls apart, the peace and harmony desired from the utopian world is the same. In Fahrenheit 451, firemen are the people who have the job of hunting down and burning any books found in the community. In The Giver, there is no war, no crime, and no hunger; every person has a job and a purpose that is determined by the leaders to be the most suited for them. This essay makes a critical comparison between the book, Fahrenheit 451, and the movie, The Giver.…
The Giver was written by Lois Lowry and was originally published in 1993. The book follows the story of a twelve year old boy named Jonas who lives in a dystopian world, in a place called ‘The Community’. I enjoyed reading this because there was a strong hidden message that carried on throughout the book. As a whole it was intriguing, but I found it slightly confusing because some details didn’t seem to have much of a connection to the overall story.…
The two novels, The Giver and 1984 have similarities in character settings and they are both dystopian worlds created by the authors. However, the main themes delivered by the two authors are different. Although there are many similarities in the two stories, there is also a difference. The messages the both authors want to tell the readers through the stories are different.…
In literature, love has always been a concept of great debate, although, what exactly is love? Pamela C. Regan, from Los Angeles University, explains that “…A person who experiences sexual desire for another individual, along with other emotional or psychological events, may characterize his or her state as one of ‘being in love…’” (Regan 139). However, does this sexual desire always breed emotion? When one thinks of love, thoughts of tenderness, kindness, and romance often arise with it.…