Short Essay About Love

We all have choices in this world, to let go or to hold on. To do something good or bad. To look at what is truly there, or believe in what we cannot see. We all will fall in love in some moment of our lifetime, whether it’s when we are young or when we are old. Some of us stay in love and some of us move on because we know what is best for the people we love. It is ideal that we fall in love young and stay together until our death bed. Especially if you were brought up in the church, when it is frowned upon to get divorced or to cheat. When something happens like this, especially when you are well respected in the community, people will choose to ignore it or the truth will spread like wildfire. This reminds me of the story, Love Medicine, where Grandma Marie and Grandpa Nector Kashpaw lived with their grandson, Lipsha Marrisey. Throughout the story we find out that Grandpa Nector is having an affair with Lulu Lamatine. Grandpa Nector is a well-respected member of his community and when Lipsha finds out about the affair he keeps his mouth closed. Society automatically thinks that when someone cheats, that they are a terrible person. However, in this case Grandpa Nector is sick with Alzheimer’s so he does not remember some of his actions. We feel sorry for him with…

Every day, we come across love in our culture. We are surrounded by it. It is in our movies, novels, poems, and they all celebrate it as if it is all that we need. We have come to expect love to be the cure-all for all of our life’s problems, which often leads to our relationships suffering. The three short stories, “That Color” by Jon McGregor, “Reunion” by Edward Mullany, and “The Ache” by Elena Bossi, all tell the same story: love is not enough. There are other aspects of relationships that…

when things got bad, what I miss the most about him along with his smile, laugh, idiotic dancing, drinking competitions, crying on his shoulder, hanging out at Cronulla and just being around him made you forget everything on your mind. Before we all lost jack, I would sit there and hug him so tight and talk to him for hours each day, that 's how I know so much about depression, pain and other mental illnesses. I saw it all through my own eyes with him, all the demons inside and then I went…

Love is a common theme in many narratives, however, writers who use this theme as a tool in the progression of their stories tend to cling to it’s cliché and typical form. Howard Fast, on the other hand, in his warped account of a slave revolt in ancient Rome, titled Spartacus, uses love in a more unconventional manner. His main characters all experience and react differently to love which creates, in a sense, a spectrum of the various kinds of love. For the purposes of this paper, we will focus…

How Love Affects Us “You’ve been elected to represent the track team this year.” uttered Kelsey. “What? You’re not running this year?” Audrey, a 17 year old girl who loves running, got on the track team this year. How did she get on the track team? People say she cheated, she did “dirty” things, but most of all they said she got lucky. Audrey was not lucky. In her entire life, she has always had borderline grades. From C or D or F, she pulls out a victory always. Like running, she never…

Having arguments with your mother isn’t a rare thing, nor is living far away from her. There are many pieces of literature in which mothers and daughters don’t have the best relationship. In Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s book Arranged Marriage there are two stories that stood out to me with this particular theme. In both “The Word Love” and “The Maid Servant’s Story” uneasy relationships between mother and daughter cause distance and pain for both. In the story “The Word Love” the narrator…

Lasting Love Is Never Stagnant As time passes, the lovesickness fades. That is not to say he loves her any less than the day he married her, no, if anything he loves her more today than he did yesterday and will love her more tomorrow than he does today. But they become more comfortable, more secure with each other and the need for grand gestures of affection fades. It is enough for him that she stays up for him no matter how late into the night he works. It is almost a habit now, coming into…

What is love? This is a question that I often ask myself. Still, I don’t have a definite answer. I find that because love is just an emotion people are free to show it however they wish or to not show it at all. Love is just so complicated. Whether it’s someone’s personal issues or a simple loss in interest, things rarely really work out. Regardless, we all feel it. In David Foster Wallace’s short stories, we the readers take a look at two different scenarios involving love. In particular a love…

Death of Love or Lies T. Coraghessan Boyle, author of “The Love of My Life,” seems to have a point to get across in his short story about the unwanted being that the lovebirds have made. With the presentation of this couple in a descriptive and non-verbal way, one can see how the story seems to be intended for young adult readers who will be able to recognize the young, but powerful love that is shown. However, these loving notions are not to be seen without a conflict that seems to create…

Love is in the eyes of the beholder. This statement has been uttered throughout time and throughout the world. Love has influenced everything from art to music, even writing. Ji-Cai and Moravia used the concept of love in their short stories "Poor Fish" and "The Tall Woman and Her Short Husband" to not only reach a wide audience but to also show that love is not "skin deep". "Poor Fish" is about a less than fortunate man who became friends with a woman who can see past his insecurities. "The…