Bye Bye Love

1. One theme that is presented in the novel, Vanishing Act by John Feinstein is courage. In the story Symanova was kidnapped while she was walking to a match against Joanne Walsh. After she was kidnapped the main character Susan and Stevie investigate who kidnapped her. They broke rules and lied about many things to try and find out more about the kidnapping. On page 119 Susan and Stevie went undercover as Evelyn Rubin’s siblings. Stevie said he was a 13 year old and Susan acted like she was 16.…

Tzipora Wiesel - a lily amongst the weeds White lilies are known to be symbols of purity, which is something Tzipora seems embody. She is the youngest sister, and seems to be emotionally and mentally strong for her age, as she did not show sadness when the Wiesel’s were forced from their home. When Tzipora is still alive, Elie has hope that all that has happened could be a nightmare. That someone will rescue him. However, when Tzipora (and Elie’s mother) disappear (and are killed), Elie’s hope…

good friend Jane Gallaher lost her innocence. Lastly, his sister Phoebe is still young but has time to lose purity. Holden likes everything pure and perfect and nothing to ever change. He fears change and does not want to move on from the people he loves most because he cherishes relationships and fears that by growing up, he will lose the connection with them. Holden’s favorite person in the world, Allie, cannot change, so Holden views any growing in others as negative. Holden is so…

Love is like a chemical reaction, a rush of dopamine in the human brain. In Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream the psychological lens reveals how, many characters acted out in psychological distress due to a mix of love and dreams which form a potent “magic” or drug that can result in self discovery when love is blind and becomes revealed. Love is like a drug, especially in this tale of lovers. Dreams are a window to the soul and this dream could be a window into the audience's soul…

Howard’s sonnet, which embodies the aspects of courtly love such as secrecy, aristocracy, and adulterous actions, the speaker, who harbors love and does not reveal it due to the denial of his lover, declares “Sweet is the death that taketh end by love”. The speaker, who suffers through the inability to display his love, makes this observation while love resides in his heart. This observation reveals the secrecy of courtly love in the sonnet. The love precipitates the speaker’s suffering through…

In Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Leonato gives a long monologue in Act 4 Scene 1 after his daughter, Hero, faints from her fiancé’s accusations that she was seen with another man the night before their wedding. The words Shakespeare choses Leonato to say in that moment are telling about how women’s purity, trust of nobility, and honor were treated during the Elizabethan era. One of the first things to note is the way Leonato speaks about Hero recovering. He says, “Do not live, Hero, do…

seductive allure of ballet, but her love soured despite her doing everything she possibly could. So much of ballet is a paradox: it is beautiful on stage but ugly in it’s preparation, It take a lifetime of training but you must come to it nearly perfect in order to succeed long term. “Ballet is not something you can grow into” The sales woman with the messy carrot top hair and stubby fingers tells a young Nicholson who has yet to even reach puberty. Nicholson pursues a love she is told from the…

David Stafford asserts, “Whenever you feel compelled to put others first at the expense of yourself, you are denying your own reality, your own identity.” By sacrificing one’s self for others, Stafford implies that there would be a negative change in one’s physicality, mentality, or even both. This negative change could come in many different forms, but ultimately is a constraint, preventing one from reaching one’s maximum potential. Nathaniel Hawthorne expresses this theme of self-sacrifice in…

Sweetie and Perry’s daughter, Dorothy, grew up a very curious child, she always wondered how her mother died, and when she was old enough, her aunt, Grace, told her everything, including her suspicious of the affair between Perry and Jo-Ann and her belief that they killed her sister. The information disturbed Dorothy, the very thought of Jo-Ann living on her mother’s property did not sit well with her. Dorothy spoke with an attorney, but was told that there was nothing she could do, the land was…

The ability to understand and share the feelings of another, or empathy can be found while examining the play Legend by Stanisław Wyspiański. The play depicts a story of self loss , family loss, and the loss of a hero. These three forms of loss in combination with the various devices used in the play that are character, dialogue, detail, and perspective all work conjointly to evoke a feeling of empathy in the audience. Each type of loss can be associated to a specific moment in the play, these…