Love Story

Lilly Bell Bazin was my grandmother. I love her with my entire heart and soul. She made my life have meaning those years the Lord blessed me to know her. No one would want to get on her bad side though! Grandma was a spitfire of a woman in her youth. I could write an entire book about her alone! She raised me. I owe much to Aunt Patricia and my mother Catherine, but my true love as a child was my grandma. My mother Catherine was hurt in a terrible accident at her occupation in a steel factory…

While Luis Sepúlveda explains the book The Old Man Who Read Love Stories, it is clear that the author's message is that the citizens of El Idilio underestimate the ability of nature. The authors message first appears in chapter two, when Antonio explains, “a gringo killed the cubs and most probably wounded the father… Now the mother is prowling around crazed with grief, and it’s Man she’s hunting down”(Sepúlveda 19). Sepúlveda words prove that nature should not be messed with. As revealed in the…

We Still ‘Love’ Each Other, Right? “I have an idea, let’s roast each other!” “How about we don’t do that because it’s stupid.” “No, I think it’s great-- I love knowing what people don’t like about me.” “Me too, let’s do it!” “I think I have to leave soon.” “Then we’ll start with you, sit back down.” * * * * * * * * A few hours earlier, the clock shows that it’s six o’clock. Gabrielle and I have been hanging out since school was let out, and we still can’t decide if we want to…

Antonio Jose Bolivar, the main character in The Old Man Who Read Love Stories, had a life filled with disapproval and rejection. As an unaccepted member of the Shuar natives of the Amazon, Bolivar is thought of as a Shuar by most, but according to the Shuar he is still not one of them. Throughout his 40 year stay with the Shuar natives, which truly began when he seeked out their assistance after being injured by a venomous snake in the forest, he was thought of as “part gringo, part Shuar”, thus…

Throughout the span of this course we have read a wide variety of stories, many of them containing the theme of love. Love is feeling a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone. Everybody knows what it is like to love someone if it being a family member, a significant other, yourself, or even a pet. With most of the stories there were more than one instance where love was presented. There are so many ways to think about a situation and more times than not you can rule there is a certain…

lot of stories may differ in a lot of ways, the key components always stay the same. A writer must have a good set of characters, a good plot, a good theme, and all the things of that nature. Every person may have a different idea of what makes a particular story “interesting” to them, and keeps them wanting to go back and read the story more and more. For a person like me, I would have to say that the theme of the story can really keep interest. A theme that can truly resonate beyond the story…

2nd Essay: Responding to Poetry Poetry mainly describes love, loss, and regret. However, every writer adds his or her own twist. For example, “Last Night” by Sharon Olds and “Cherrylog Road” by James Dickey deals with the same theme but are two different pieces of writing. They explore the theme of forbidden love and use imagery to show the lust between the two characters. In this essay I will compare and contrast the two poems by presenting different examples. Titles can say a lot about a…

of writing known as realism is built around character, plot, and setting as every other tale created has been based around. In this genre, each one of these pieces in the form of a story has very important characteristics in them. The character, which is the biggest player I all stories as they rely on them for a story to actually occur, must be representative of the people that, during the time the piece was written, the general public may encounter in their lives and are able to relate to.…

Care Unit (NICU) for five months and three days. I was born at twenty-four weeks and one day, four months before my due date on January fifth. I was not alone, however. My twin brother was born on January fourteenth—we were nine days apart. See, my story is not a difficult one to tell, but it has changed slightly over the course of my seventeen years. I could go on to discuss how I’ve had sixteen extensive surgeries. How I only have one working vocal cord. Or even that I was given about a ten…

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key is a story of a young boy who suffers through his daily life fighting to keep control over his racing mind and exploding behaviors. His tragic life story began with his parents walking out, leaving him with nothing but his uncontrollable grandma. His mom soon decided to grow up and return to better her son’s life. As Joey goes through a series of mishaps, teachers begin to give up on him. He is sent from classroom, to special-ed classroom, to a special-ed center…