Written on the Body pulls at the heart strings with a story of a person who is in love with a woman, Louise. The narrator wants to understand the meaning of love. The first sentence of the book is “What is the measure of love lost?” (Written On the Body, 1) The narrator’s desire for the woman, Louise, is strong and complicated. The woman Louise is married to a cancer research specialist, Eglin. The narrator, at this time, is living with Jacqueline, a zoo worker who is uninterested sexually in the narrator. When Jacqueline finds out that the narrator and Louise are in love; she is enraged. She breaks the narrator’s apartment appliances and then the narrator’s personal belongings. Needless to say, Jacqueline moves out and Louise, promptly, moves in and she is divorced from Eglin. Eglin convinces Louise she has cancer and the only way that she will be saved is if she does not see the narrator anymore and comes back to him.
Eglin and Louise never remarry, he does not treat her, she is left to her own devices and Eglin goes on with another girlfriend. The narrator, after a failed love attempt to Gail; they seem to live with each other, went on to find that it is important to go get what you love, and goes searching for Louise. The narrator is not pleased with Gail. She searched for Eglin, fought him, and sent him to the hospital. After searching for several weeks, the narrator returns home to find that Gail has changed things around the house and the narrator feels sad that finding Louise, the greatest endeavor, is futile. At the last moment, Louise is seen in the kitchen; albeit weakened and visibly ill, but she is there.
The end of the book states "I don't know if this is a happy ending but here we are let loose in...
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...ught to do. Why? Why does another human need my help with door opening? I can understand opening a door for a woman pushing a stroller, or just to be kind and hold it opens for another person, but not on the basis of man or woman. I do not think that anyone should be given any special treatment for their gender.
Any type of human rights or freedoms should be given to everyone; "glass ceilings" or looking down on anyone for a job or way of life is abhorrent. For example, if a woman can lift three-hundred pounds in a fire, then she should have every right to become a firefighter and not be thought of as being "manly." Or, if a man becomes a nurse, why is he looked down upon as feminine? I would hope that soon our culture allows for more movement and gender roles break down a bit to give anyone who lives through social oppression the freedom that they deserve.
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`All's well that ends well.' Two completely different authors with two somewhat different styles of writing create two endings, which leave the audience guessing, making assumptions, but assuming that indeed, all is as well as it can possibly be, finally.
Louise is said to "not hear the story as many women have heard the same." Rather, she accepts it and goes to her room to be alone. Now the reader starts to see the world through Louise's eyes, a world full of new and pure life.
Women have been treated unequally since the beginning of time. Just recently have things began to change for the better for women and the future of our society. The increase in women’s equality rights will take time, but some day women and men will be treated equally. This cannot happen until each of us is able to look at a person and just see another individual, not a male or a female, white or black, rich or poor… a person as just a person.
The United States government should pass an Equal Rights Amendment to guarantee equality for both men and women.
Have you ever had equal rights just as much as someone who had more money than you or was in higher power than you? Most people may not believe in equal human rights, but it should happen even in the most pore places.
Love can take many shapes and forms. There are many different kinds of love between human beings. Though it is often overlooked, intentionally or not, loss comes hand in hand with love; it is the second face of love that no one wants to see or experience. With love comes the potential to lose it as well. Nicole Krauss’s book, The History of Love, is really about loss.
If I able to get the opportunity to teach on this topic to someone that is single, I would put the main focus of my teaching in the meanings of love itself that introduced in the book of Song of Songs. I am so grateful that God has given me over these past 6-7 years to get involved in the teens, youth, and young adults ministries, and one of the big problems that I found that they were facing on is: The crisis of meanings. I believe this problem exists because today we live in a culture that put out the image of love as something cheap, it is all about quick physical connection, and totally the opposite of what been explained in the book. And because of this, there's no guideline for these people to hold onto that caused confusion and disorder.
Louise has turned into a little girl that must depend on man to take care of her. Louise pleads with Brently to go to the gardens of Paris. She begs like a child begging for something that is impossible to give. Brently must lock her up in their home to protect her from her curiosity and need to see the world. The filmmakers do not give her the commonsense to realize the dangers she would face in seeing Paris and all the other places she would like to visit. Louise remains the little girl in the flashbacks and Brently has replaced her dead father as the soul keeper of her world. Brently must protect her from the world and herself. She is made to be completely dependent on him from her everyday needs to being her only window into the outside world. There are no female positions of authority in her life. Aunt Joe is left in the background and Marjorie must ultimately answer to Brently. Louise is left to see men as the only authority in her life. She herself as a woman must feel powerless to the will of men. Brently even chooses the destinations of their daily visits to far off and exotic places. These excursions are Louise's only escape. Brently is made to be her captor and savior at the same time. Her fate is completely dependent in his yet she is given no control of either.
Women Deserve the Same Rights as Men From the beginning of time, women have played a powerful role in the shaping of this world. They have stood by idly and watched as this country moved on without them, and yet they have demanded equal rights as the nation rolls along. Through the years, the common belief has been that women could not perform as well as men in anything, but over the years that belief has been proven wrong time and time again. So as time marches on, women have clawed and fought their way up the ladder to gain much needed equal respect from the opposite sex. However, after many years of pain and suffering, the battle for equal rights has not yet been won.
As we all know, women and men are different in their own distinctive ways. But together they make for a great partnership in the work field. Equality among men and women for the rights to coexist has moved our country in a new direction for women within the last century. The feminist movement was widely needed between 1848 and the 1920’s because women lacked the right to vote, among other things. Since women have been able to get to where they have been going within the movement, success for them has been greater than ever in modern times. But, there is always room for improvement in other aspects of equality. While we may never achieve perfect gender equality, there is still some injustices should not be overlooked. Women may be able to be
Despite the fact that, everyone is important, still as per the stats given by U.S. government, only 43 out of 148 countries gives equal rights to both men and women. Moreover, gender equality isn’t still achieved because of the fear of the women empowerment. Women empowerment does not means to overload women’s with some extra rights over men or make women dominate the world. It simply means giving women more hold on their personal choices and decision rather than taking permission from men. In sum, gain for women does not imply any losses for men. Men’s are more physically strong and women’s are more emotionally aware. But this is because of our biological origins. If given equal opportunities, who can say which one is better than the other?
...tedly, but instead the idea that she no longer will have her husbands will forcing her to have no self-assertion, which was common of that time. By the last 3 paragraphs of the story Louise has come to full realization of what is to come.
Gender plays a role in the way that people are viewed. It works hand in hand with other factors such as race, sexuality, class, and age and helps to construct the roles that people are confined within. These roles are limiting, no matter what group of characteristics an individual has. All of these aspects work together to create a system of privilege. Certain truths are inescapable when it comes to privilege: men are better off than women, heterosexuality is viewed as the norm, and white people have more privilege than any other race. The previous groups and the people who are in them are regarded as the default. This means that anything different is viewed as other, such as bisexuality or homosexuality. Furthermore,