Love: a four letter word that is used to convey affection. I love my parents. I love my sisters. I love my friends. I love Rockhurst. I love God. I love brotherhood. I love my morning coffee. I love rainy days. I love Harry Potter. I love breakfast for dinner, especially at IHOP. I love service. I love my Guatemalan family. I love snow days. I love Disney. I love hiking. I love life chats. I love my adventurous spirit. I love living my life. My list of loves can go on and on. They are what fuel me to roll out of bed each morning, tired from the night before, and get ready for the day. They put a smile on my face. They bring me happiness. They challenge me. My list of loves is part of who I am. I am always ready to learn something knew about myself and the world around me. Love Does by Bob Goff and a New York Time Bestseller is a nonfiction book that is filled with countless personal memoirs that vary from hysterical laughing to tear-jerking memories. The book includes stories from Goff as a high school student, his college days, meeting his wife Maria, his children, his service work in Uganda, and so many more personal …show more content…
Throughout its 31 unique chapters, Love Does displays Goff’s extreme vulnerability. Goff is not afraid to open up his own life in order to share it with others. He includes goofy stories such as the time that he created a 4ft by 8ft Valentine’s Day card for the love of his life. Or the time that he signed on to be the Ugandan consul without realizing what he signed up for. However, the book also includes moving stories such as his service in Uganda to help children fight injustice. Or the time that he helped two fighting men find peace. Story after story after story. This is Goff’s life. The reader is drawn into the book and into his life. Every person has his own story to tell. Goff challenges his readers to share their
In the book Love Does by Bob Goff, the main character and speaker in the book is Bob Goff. Goff tells about his life stories in each chapter and how each story in his life showed an example of God’s love and stories in the Bible. Bob Goff was a mediocre student, with very few friends in school. He took a test to get his high school diploma and graduated school early. Goff was just like any other young and dumb teenager that thought he knew everything there was to know.
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz covers the issue of Love and Violence thoroughly throughout the book, and shows how anger and love influence the impulsive and reckless decisions the characters made. Searching for Zion, by Emily Raboteau on the other hand shows that love comes in different forms and may be easily misunderstood. Abelard, Belicia, Lola, and Emily show love can be a devastating force if not handled carefully and, could be very dangerous. As others commonly have, Oscar confuses passion or lust with love, which in many ways can be critical when conveyed in violence. Similarly, Emily doesn’t fully understand the love that she shares with her father and it leads her to dangerous encounters.
The idea of love is very complex and can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Both “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien and “Araby” by James Joyce portray the lives of two individuals who are in love. “The Things They Carried” is about a young lieutenant named Jimmy Cross during the Vietnam War. Lieutenant Cross was incapable of focusing on the war because of his constant thoughts of the girl he loved, Martha. “Araby” is about a boy who is infatuated with a girl he has never had a conversation with. Although both protagonists in “The Things They Carried” and “Araby” eventually realize that the girls they loved didn’t feel the same way about them, Lieutenant Cross tried to move on by destroying everything he had that reminded him of Martha, while the boy in “Araby” was left disappointed.
...hor of this book does write rude and profound “rules” of love, he also shows the true side of relationships and how a man or women should love and think about their companion.
Love: a small, four-lettered word that oozes with possibility. What is the meaning of love? The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines love as “a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person.” However, can love really be defined? In the short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” by Raymond Carver, the four main characters discuss just that: what is love?
Love is when another person’s happiness is more important than your own, when you are willing to risk your safety and life for that person even though they may not give you their love. The Great Gatsby shows how love can be unfair and dishonest. Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” shows how love can be honest and fair. Both selections show how love can either be honest or not taken seriously. F.Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby and E.e. Cummings, author of Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” convey a similar theme of love through the use of tone, imagery, and symbolism.
“Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.” The main character in Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie Crawford, possesses a seemingly unquenchable thirst for affection, and does not rest until she finds the man who is able to offer her the love she desires and believes to deserve. Janie defines love as a fluid force that is different with every man, and transforms with changing circumstances. Janie does not care to be wealthy, or to have high social standing; she wishes to be submerged in a sea of tenderness and to swim through waters of passion, and to be caressed by captivating waves of lust. Her idealistic conception of love and the corresponding desire for it developed from her sixteen-year-old obsession with a bee pollinating a pear blossom in the back yard of her grandmother’s house.
Sometimes emotions are hard to recognize especially when it comes to love. This point is made throughout “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and also throughout story “Ind Aff or Out of Love in Sarajevo” by Fay Weldon. Love is not always what it seems to be in both “Ind Aff or Out of Love in Sarajevo” and “The Story of an Hour.”
Love is an amazing feeling that constantly inspires people to admire it in literature, cinema, music and other kinds of art. Many literal works are devoted to the description of this overwhelming feeling and its development. However, there is not much told about various challenges and obstacles lovers have to come across. Both the "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer and "Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare are great examples of love that is tested by various challenges and complications.
Virgil said, “Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love”. Most people have experienced the overwhelming feeling of love, thereby understanding that in the end, nothing will stand in its way. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Yzierska’s Bread Givers, and Hurston’s Their Eyes were Watching God, and dorm life show that love truly conquers all obstacles. In The Scarlet Letter, love conquers the pressures of society, while in The Great Gatsby, love overcomes the test of time. In Bread Givers, love triumphs over major differences caused by a wide generation gap and in Their Eyes were Watching God, love overpowers the forces of nature and disease.
Love is an interpersonal relationship developed, maintained, and possibly destroyed through communication, but also can be enhanced by communication. Love is often described as a feeling of closeness, caring, intimacy and commitment between two people. There are six different types of love: eros, ludus, storge, pragma, mania, and
The Definition of Love Love by definition is an emotion explored in philosophy, religion, and literature, often as either romantic love, the fraternal love of others, or the love of God based on the definition found in The Encarta Encyclopedia. As I explored the definitions through the Internet, books, and articles, I noticed the definitions changed quite a bit, but yet had the same basic understanding. The definition I found in The Encarta Encyclopedia is probably the most simple and most basic. It refers to love in the whole aspect, which is Godly, fraternal, and romantic. All of which can only be defined by one word and that is love.
The word love is usually misused or misinterpreted. There are numerous meanings and definitions to this overly used word. Not many of them make much sense to me. Love is a feeling of complete bliss. Love is something that can’t be touched or bought, but is something that is much better than money and earthly objects. I can stay here and describe love all day long and still have so much more to say about this word days later. Love isn’t a word that should be used lightly, but usually is. I believe that love is the most commonly used, but most understood word ever known
Love is the ultimate prize in life, the gift that I am most thankful for. The description of love is found in every smile, every pounding heart, and the sweet taste
What is love? Love is a very special and meaningful word to each human being. Each human being has his/her own thoughts about love to guide himself/herself to land safely and smoothly into the kingdom of Love. Without this preconceived idea of love, people would be acting like a blind person searching for the light with thousand of obstacles in front of him.