Love Never Dies

Chocolate a love story. But that isn’t how I interpreted it. It’s a coming of age story, the narrator focuses on the growth of Tita the protagonist from child to adulthood. In both book and film, the primary setting is the De la Garza Ranch. Nearly all of the story’s action takes place there. And where we are introduced to every important character; each of their lives revolve around the ranch. Even when they are away, their main focus is the ranch; Pedro wanting to return to it to be near his…

teenagers who come from families that have been rivals for years and years. They end up falling in love quickly but it comes with many consequences and lots of drama. Romeo and Juliet are both strongly motivated by their need for love which leads them into making decisions quickly without really thinking through the consequences of their actions, and in the way that the play turns out, you can see that true love takes time, it cannot be rushed because marriage is a huge commitment, especially…

In her memoir, H is for Hawk, Helen McDonald writes, “What the mind does after losing one’s father isn’t just to pick new fathers from the world, but pick new selves to love them with.” I didn’t read the book. My mom clipped out the book review from the New York Times and gave it to me. She tried to get through the book, but it read too slowly. The review alone, and the quote in particular, had sufficed. I read the review, I committed the quote to memory, and I wondered if this described my…

“Just because we don’t say certain things, doesn’t mean we don’t feel them”. This quote is especially relevant to the love affair that takes place in W. D. Snodgrass’s poem “Leaving the Motel”. The poem entails of the requirements that two surreptitious lovers must carry out after their secret rendezvous to sure that their relations stay hidden. As the narrator of the poem methodically runs through their responsibilities like a checklist, they establish a detached and matter-of-fact tone, which…

fifty copies to a distributor and numerous copies to libraries and editors of magazines and newspapers in St. Louis, New Orleans, Boston, and New York.” (Larrabee, Denise) At Fault takes place at a Louisiana plantation, in the novel Chopin wrote about love, obstacles, freedom and the reuniting the country. The characters in the novel, like many of the people living in Louisiana at the time, are Creoles, Acadians, African-Americans, Native Americans, and people of mixed race. Most of Chopin…

Italian man meets a maid named Ida, who falls in love with him. The man tries to look strong and brave, but he is put down by a couple at the circus in front of Ida. This, however, doesn 't affect their love for each other. In “The Tall Woman and Her Short Husband,” a tall woman marries a short and wealthy man, but the people in their neighborhood find the relationship…

“Let them love!” This was a common thought that passed through my mind when reading The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Washington Square by Henry James. An inability to love afflicts both of those books’ protagonists, Hester Prynne and Catherine Sloper, respectively. More specifically, the price they pay for their love impairs both of these characters, but the reality of their attractions differs. Hester’s consummates her passion for Arthur Dimmesdale before her story begins. And…

Naive Love Love can bring people together forever however love can also drive people apart because of societal standards. Two people can love each other but due to the options of society, they can never be together, which creates a sense of forbidden love. In Korea during the 1930s it was unusual to see a widowed woman remarry. Remarriage was seen as inappropriate and taboo by Korean society. This forbidden remarriage in Korea is what Chu Yo-sǒp focuses on in his story. He describes the love…

or was one of four angels conceived in heaven or the outer sphere of metaphysical creationist zone, I laughed out loud to myself, mumbo-jumbo, you know. I was conceived 500 years before the creation of humans. Before Adam, Lilith and Eve’s vicious love triangle. Divine Being told me the only reason he conceived us divine being was to aid him and to keep him company. He conceived Lucifer first and she was beautiful, he conceived her as an equal to him but because she was so young, she was the…

The Love Story in “The Thing They Carried” Tim O’Brien’s “The Thing They Carried” is about the war and the things they carried during the war. Moreover, the memories they made and the experiences they shared while they were doing their mission are also included in this war story. Although it is emphasized about the war and the soldiers in this book, O’Brien also shows the different kind of love in this story. After all, he calls this story was the love story because the love between friends and…