Platonic love

shows how love can evolve from some of life 's simplest things. It shows the meaning of true love and how the little things matter the most. “After all, if there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you. I love you” (150). This quote really spoke to me because I really felt for Ira at this point. His whole life he was devoted to loving Ruth, but now she was gone. Here, he is explaining in his letter to her that no matter what happens he will always love…

relays messages of love. In light of Morrison’s indirect relation to jazz, her novel thoroughly addresses the types of love to serve as a major aspect in the plot and brilliance of her writing. Of the many ideas she conveys in Jazz, the main concepts of love throughout the story include the love and relationships between a man and a woman,…

Sacrifice comes from selflessness, compassion, and extraordinary love. This matter is demonstrated in the book Mockingjay, written by Suzanne Collins. Before the book Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen volunteers as a tribute for her sister Primrose, so that Prim will not have to go into “The Hunger Games”, a deadly war of innocent people. Soon, Katniss knows she has a job to do, once she realizes that their world is being taken over by President Snow. In Suzanne Collins’s book Mockingjay, it is…

People continue to ask me, “Why do you love books and reading so much,” and I truly believe that there can never be just one answer to that question. But if I had to answer, it would be, that Books quench my thirst for wisdom. I don’t ever want to stop learning. I’ve met people who say that they learned everything they needed to know by the time they graduated. And I have to disagree with that. I want to learn everything. I want my mind exploding with facts. I love that you can learn something…

Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston, Zora. Their Eyes were Watching God. New York: Harper & Row, 1937. Print. In Zora Neale Hurston’s famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston explores the life of a southern black woman, Janie Crawford whose three marriages of domineering control of men make her acknowledge her independence and self-satisfaction as an African-American woman. Set in the early 1900s, Hurston reveals the dominant role of men in southern society and…

influence of communism and for the purpose of serving their community. The idealized perception of life changes for Kien through his personal experiences at war. In The Sorrow of War, Bao Ninh uses women to symbolize how war destroys love and furthermore creates the inability to love…

Romeo and Juliet, a classical tragic love story depicts the forbidden love of two young individuals – Romeo and Juliet. Through the two young lovers, Shakespeare displays hate and love being the two most powerful forces in human nature. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, both belonging to the feuding families overcome the hate of their despiteful families to be with one another for they have fallen into passionate and unconditional love. Although, hate does a lot of damage and causes pain between…

read their letter and closure can be brought to the loved ones they are forced to leave behind. “I Am Writing Blindly” has examples of this. The crew on a submarine that is fully submerged and crashed are left in complete darkness, still they write love letter to their families. Writing their last thoughts down could allow the grieving process to go a little smoother and bring some closure. Prisoners in the Warsaw Ghetto didn’t have the same luxury of knowing if their loved ones were still alive…

through a stop-motion video consisting of a book of drawings. There was symbolism riddle throughout the entire video, including the lyrics, with the drawings of people, animals, and inanimate objects. The video follows the life of two bunnies that are in love and between the shots of the bunnies, there are drawings of people with writing around them, similar to a journal entry. Around the journal/book being used there is a small cup of coins, a picture of a woman and a postcard in a frame, a…

constantly searching for it in their lives. This “thing” is called love, and it is a powerful feeling that many strive to be able to experience. The United States is a powerful country, and so as a result, many are relatively well off. With money not being an issue for some people, many then try to focus on finding love in their life, and for those that are not as well of, love can be the only thing that they can cling to. For some, love is an essential part of the “American Dream”, and it…