Patrick Bennett's Lopsided Love

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Everybody has fears in many circumstances, but sometimes it’s bad to hold fears for yourself instead of letting go the fears of the shoulder. The short story of Lopsided Love suggests that go where the mood take you and facing fears leads to fighting your own battles to feel worthy. The literary element of this story such as tone, character, setting, and symbol are the key to the story understanding on a necessary feature of verbal storytelling that can be found in written narrative.
The short story “Lopsided Love” was written by Patrick Bennett, who was from west Texas and published in 2000. In the story, an individual named Rudy Beck caught his eyes on a woman’s name Lulu at the diner where she works. They later meet at the art show and discover they like each other. One day Lulu found out and faced her fears to Rudy about her ex-husband Sewell then the following night Sewell came along tried to take Lulu away and hurt Rudy. Rudy Beck,
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The type of character Rudy Beck is dynamic because his attitude is changing from shallow to deep person after Lulu faces her fears about her ex-husband. He is now more caring, thoughtful, and considerate. Lulu was a waitress at Lone Star Café around the corner from the shoe shop where Rudy worked and she is also a musician with a cello. She was tall and slim with long arms and legs and she doesn’t have large brassiere even though she hardly needs bra, she is also the kind fashion magazine show a boyish charm with big brown eyes, wide mouth, and long blonde hair. She looked like someone who have a gold tooth but she doesn’t have it. According to the story Lulu has an ugly scar on her one ear where the ear is missing. Her ex-husband Sewell, chop off her ear and ate the ear back in the day when they were married. He went to jail because of what he has done to Lulu’s ear. Since then, she would be terrified of her ex-husband if he comes near

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