Love Story

In every story you read or hear about have these elements; the setting, plot, literal devices and its theme throughout stories to make a story come into depth to the audience. These elements allow the audience to connect in a real-life situations which generate the potential in the short stories. Louise Erdrich’s “Love Medicine” is a fantastic piece that represents a story analysis work in the culture of writing. Erdrich short stories are based on encouraging women to remain strong with their…

What is Love? When searching for the definition of love in the dictionary one would expect to find one simple statement that clearly defines the word; however when you look up the word “love” in the dictionary you find multiple definitions. The truth is there is not a set definition for the word love because it has a different meaning to each individual. Love is a complicated phenomenon that affects everyone differently. In the short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” it is…

Plastic: A Toxic Love Story In the words of Susan Freinkel, “Plastic has built the modern world”. In this book, Freinkel recounts plastic’s original origins dating back to 1869 when the young inventor John Wesley Hyatt created a “white material with the consistency of shoe leather but a capacity to do much more”. This began the descent into the world we now know as Plasticville, and Freinkel’s information on the backstories of the eight most used plastic products: chairs, credit cards, combs,…

embarrassment during his rages, Irene would walk the streets for hours contemplating her life. With no new love in sight, under relentless push from Wayne, she hesitantly agreed to her husband’s demands, and the loveless marriage continued. The irony of life, its karma or fate- call it what you want- about a year later, Irene met the man who became the love of her life. How ordinary this story is: both of them married, one of them cannot or will not break out of the marriage. The timeless…

In the story “Checkouts” two teens fall in love. The girl and her parents are moving to Cincinnati. The girl hated the thought of leaving the town she grew up in. For a month she spent the greater part of everyday in her room, because she missed her hometown. According to the article, the girl finally didn’t have the energy to stay in her bedroom. She liked to grocery shop, so she emerged from the beautiful house and went down to the supermarket and one she went in she fell in love with the bag…

The short story, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver, invalidates the struggles and the lives of women, especially those that have dealt with trauma and abuse. The lack of empathy for Terri, the lack of recognition of abusive relationships do nothing to prevent or provide education on domestic violence, and the absence of support marginalize women. Terri, Mel’s second wife, was in two consecutive abusive relationships. She had lived with Ed, a man that “loved her so…

Mai closed the door to her apartment with a tremble. The first rays of dawn crept out of the window and to the tip of Mai's feet. Everything seemed peaceful and serene, but it was anything but that. A tear slid down her cheek. Perhaps if she just listened for once, then things wouldn't have turned out so bad. She knew Naru was under a lot of stress-after all, four people had already died during the case, and with the resurfacing of Gene's killer he was even more tense than usual...so why…

Chapter Three I was on the plane to London; we had a couple of hours left till we arrived. Goodbye America, Hello London. I laid back; I was in the middle of Liam and Niall. I felt…safe. Niall nudged my arm, I looked at him. “Do you need something Niall?” I yawn. “Yeah actually, I need to take a selfie with you.” I smile at how stupid it sounded. “Sure, why not.” He gets his phone out and takes a picture. I do a peace sign with a face. Niall makes a weird face. I giggle. Niall looked at me…

writing, postmodernism, modernism, the elements of poetry and realism. The stories I will focus on are: “Editha”, “Mother to Son”, “Everyday Use”, “Entropy” and “The Love Story of J. Alfred Prufrock”. In “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker is a story about tension among two sisters and their mother working to bring them together. The marginalized elements of oppression, tradition and cultural tensions. The oppression in the story is how Dee treats her sister Maggie. She treats as though she is an…

their heads and they become overwhelmed with it all. They discover each other again and are reminded of why they started. They fall in love and decide to rebuild a business together featuring all-natural food and drinks. The ad concludes with a happy ending of the man and woman lying together with a child and puppy. The screen reads, “Cultivate a better world.” This story is not far off from Chipotle’s own history. Angela Natividad wrote an article in Adweek asking the question of “Is Chipotle’s…