Analysis Of Birds And Other Things We Lived In Our Hearts

Improved Essays
Love In The 21st Century
How many people can say they are truly happy? In society today it is mostly seen that people have “everything” like a flat screen tv, an iphone, designer clothing, nice cars, and a big house, but yet they are still not happy. On the other hand there are people that do not even have all the basic necessities like food, water, shelter, and clothing, but are completely happy, or at least trying as best they can to be happy. (Insert transition sentence). In the short story “Birds And Other Things We Placed In Our Hearts” by Timmy Reed the reader can see how people in today 's day and age are only looking for material things to love and not people. Mostly in relationships. There are so many “goals” set for couples to achieve
…show more content…
This point of view can be sometimes compromising because it only shows one side of a story, and also a biased point because of the narrator 's feelings. When a writing with “I” is takes credibility away from the theme. He emphasises multiple times “I could not make you happy”, and continues to talk about how she was to blame. By what we get from his point of view the woman seems very unhappy, but if it was in a different perspective maybe the audience would know why, and be able to understand why she was in search for so many things. Reed could have elaborated on his story more if it was written in a different point of …show more content…
When reading the story there are many different emotions that come to mind, but first the reader tries to differentiate what character they are most like. They do this so that they can look at it from that perspective. Most people would want to believe that they are like the narrator, and they do not care about “things” but instead the people, but as hard as it may seem there are many people that are like the women, and it is not their fault. Growing up individuals see all the “cute” things on the internet their idea of love changes. The narrator says “You left the house each morning and wandered, looking for new items to replace your heart” (Reed) really showing how angry he was for her doing that. She wanted to love him too, but their way of looking at love was so different that they just kept hurting each other. Love although an extremely common theme can be looked at in many different perspectives, and the way the author is looking at it can really demonstrate what change there can be done in society

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Happiness is a word that is seen in a multitude of different ways by a multitude of different people. Everyone has their own idea of what happiness means to them, but it is a word that has no set definition. The author of “Happiness and Its Discontents”, Daniel Haybron views happiness as an entire emotional spectrum that is affected by several factors such as life satisfaction and being exposed to both pain and pleasure. Whereas Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener the authors of “Can Money Buy Happiness”, describe happiness as the emotion someone feels when they obtain an object they believe will improve their life and can be acquired within their means. An example of this would be the joy someone might feel when they are able to buy a car…

    • 911 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Lens Analysis: Literature Interpretation Literature can be viewed through various lenses as a way to see writing through a different viewpoint. The new historical lens is used to view writing through another time period while comparing it to the period the book was written. This lens can be interpreted as a way to “think about the retelling of history itself” (Brizee). It focuses on aspects like what language or events in the writing reflect the time period of the author (Brizee).…

    • 2420 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    We have all heard the saying, “Money can’t buy happiness.” But if this is true, why do we devote our lives to the pursuit of wealth? Psychologists, philosophers, and countless others have proposed numerous theories for what factors actually lead to happiness, and whether or not material wealth generates happiness. For example, some believe happiness comes purely from one’s mindset, while others believe behaviors and actions bring about happiness, and some believe a significant portion of happiness is genetic. Nevertheless, experts and ordinary people alike continue to debate the question of how much material wealth contributes to happiness.…

    • 1762 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Everyone has their own individual definition of happiness. Richard Taylor describes happiness as “a state of being, not a mere feeling” (Taylor, 116), but how may one come to this total state of fulfillment? Vivien Sung who wrote Five-Fold Happiness and Richard Taylor who wrote a chapter on happiness in his book An Introduction to Virtue Ethics both agree that happiness is made up of many different parts. Because happiness is made up of different components, achieving prosperity, longevity, and wealth are three elements that can lead to being fully…

    • 91 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Susan Wolfs “The Meaning in Life and Why It Matters” is a short book of Essays containing commentaries by Robert Adams and John Kothe, and Wolfs responses to their commentary. Throughout the book Wolf focuses on 3 views to talk about when thinking about life, and objectively why it matters for it to be important. Those 3 views are the Fulfillment view, the Larger-than-oneself view, and the Bipartite view. After explaining these views Wolf then gives her interpretation on her own crafted view called the Fitting Fulfillment view. After Wolf explains these views, Adams and Kothe set up counter arguments to her view and the other views.…

    • 1516 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When Reeds states “gentlemen’s children,” he provides insight into the social class of Jane’s family; he informs the reader of Jane’s low upbringing and further isolates her from her cousins. She is forced into living a life of solitude and commands. The dominance that John Reed has over Jane also helps to support Brontë’s social commentary on gender inequality. Not only is Jane secluded from the Reed family due to her low upbringing, but also obligated to surrender to John’s…

    • 112 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Happiness Through Ethos

    • 667 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Charles Spurgeon one said “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” Happiness is not something that just happens to you. It either comes from you being a giver or a taker. Either way you find happiness by giving things to others or taking things for yourself. The article “There’s More to Life Than Being Happy” uses ethos to tell us how we make ourselves happy.…

    • 667 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The unnamed wife in “A Sorrowful Woman” by Gail Godwin is a dynamic character because in her relationships throughout the story, she reveals herself as a woman is overwhelmed by the responsibility of having a family at the beginning of the story and changes into a character who is accepting to her duties at the end. Throughout the story the unnamed wife could not decide what path she wanted to take in life. The weight of starting a family started weighing down on here and it started to affect the relationship she had with her son and her husband. The biggest thing that bothered the woman was her son.…

    • 686 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    To love, means to have a deep affection for someone or something. Two people grow and develop with one another to eventually create a bond for each other that makes them one. People experience the feeling of love everyday but back in the 1800’s, slaves were not free individuals and were denied the freedom of being in or experience love firsthand. Slaves were not treated as free human beings and as a result, they were not given the same opportunities. In the narrative, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” by Harriet Jacobs, she explains her story of her struggles and experiences during her life of slavery.…

    • 1246 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Jane was left to live with her aunt mrs.reed and her 3 cousins. They showed disrespect and hatred towards her presence. All they did to jane was mistreat her, bully her and blame her for anything wrong that happens. Jane is excluded from her family. She feels isolated and different from everyone else.…

    • 453 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ever since the dawn of the first written language literature has always played a huge role in understanding why do humans behave and accomplish goals some that are very adventurous and against a human’s comfort zone. Literature reflects on human 's nature and pulls at their instinct to be adventurous and go against their comfort zone of a normal life to do something extraordinary. Two examples of pieces of literature that show off people that accept the call to adventure while other folks do not ,is the New York Times Article, “A Private Dance? Four Million Web Fans Say No” written by Charles Mcgrath. As well the poem “Sadie and Maud” written by Gwendolyn Brooks.…

    • 1030 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Happiness Vs Society

    • 793 Words
    • 4 Pages

    There’s no way everyone can be happy at the same time, therefore society 's happiness as a whole is more important than the happiness of an individual alone. We all work together to keep society functioning properly. Through happiness, sadness, anger, and despair. Everything works together in such a way that we should not have to worry about one persons’ happiness, but the majority. Most individuals are already consumed with themselves enough that in reality they do not need any more attention than they already have.…

    • 793 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    It’s safe to assume that most people strive to be happy in their life. Individual happiness can be defined in a number of ways, for many people wealth is the answer to becoming happy while others may view health as an important component to happiness. Seneca, a wealthy and notable philosopher during the Roman Imperial period, does not consider wealth nor health as essential to our own happiness. Instead, he regards virtue alone as being sufficient for happiness (Vogt 2016). Aristotle, on the other hand, does not regard happiness as a human feeling but he views it more as an objective state or an achievement (Aristotle on Eudaimonia).…

    • 971 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The short story “Disappearing”, written by Monica Wood, is about an overweight woman who falls into an addiction. Nowadays, society has been changing a lot and specially in the way people should look in the exterior. As we can see in T.V., movies or magazines models are now with perfect bodies. But people should as themselves whenever they see this, “what is really a perfect body?”. The perfect is how you feel and whatever makes you feel comfortable.…

    • 837 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Happiness What is happiness? There can be many different definitions of the word happiness. My definition of happiness is when you have a good emotion towards something. To be happy you need to work hard to get to where you want to be.…

    • 1089 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays