“Lysandra’s Poem”, a story about a friendship ending as if it never existed. Why was this youthful relationship ruined? Friends Lysandra and Elaine, are the main characters of this short story. They were best friends, but in the end they were nothing more than strangers. We know that Lysandra is described as awkward and shy ( Wilson 127). It is inferred that she doesn't have many friends and Elaine probably being her only friend. The main conflict between the two is the poetry contest. Both girls participated in the contest and out of the two Elaine had won. As expressed in the story, “... Lysandra was the only one to devote her entire life to it…” (Wilson 128). This contest meant a lot to Lysandra, yet Elaine won. There is no right to …show more content…
Be nice again. I don't want our friendship to be wrecked.” ( Wilson 131). Elaine wanted to continue being friends with Lysandra, yet she did not accept her apology. Instead, Lysandra held a grudge against her for years and decided to get revenge. She also hurt Elaine’s feelings, so that she understood how she felt herself. Both Elaine and Lysandra did something to betray each other, however Lysandra is the one to be deemed the true villain of this story. The reason of why I believe she is the villain is because instead of forgiving Elaine, she held a grudge and got revenge. While Elaine tried to reconcile, Lysandra would not even listen to what she had to say. To be honest, I do not have an experience that is similar to the one in the story, but I did get betrayed by one of my friends back when I was in the second grade. We were on recess break, therefore we aren't allowed to stay in classrooms. In my school, we had a cafeteria open during lunches and recesses for student I often brought money for lunches and snacks. We leave our backpacks in the classrooms and, so I would just bring enough money to buy whatever I needed. I would leave some of it in my backpack. One day that my best friend during that time stole my …show more content…
I kindly ask to accompany her, however she denied me and told me to go ahead. When the break was over,I went to check my backpack, only to find that my money had been stolen. I remembered that there was only one person I knew had gone into the classroom when nobody was around. I decided to go confront my friend about it, but she denied any allegations. Then, my youthful mind decided that taking ‘revenge’ was the way to go. My plan was simple, do exactly what she did to me. I stole her money, however I got caught by the teacher. At that moment I knew that trying to get back at my friend was not the right idea. Just like in the story, I did something to one of my precious friends. Unlike Lysandra I was not successful. But I learned that, you shouldn't try to get revenge. Not always does revenge makes us feel better. When we try to get revenge, we want to retaliate to the other person, prove to them that they did something wrong. But revenge is not the best option. There are plenty of other ways that we can communicate those feelings without having the need to hurt someone else’ feelings. Very often, revenge goes too far, causing suffering on
In the story “Lysandra's poem” Lysandra is the real villain because all she wanted was revenge. Lysandra not only stole Elaine's guy 4 years after the contest, but is also secretly sending bad messages about Elaine through her world famous poems. You can tell Lysandra was only after revenge because in the story it says “The days,the months that followed...Lysandra withdrew into a secret self and refused to speak with me.” Budge 130. Lysandra was also being a bad sport instead of being happy that her friend won she was being stubborn. This shows that Lysandra was only after vengeance. She had waited 4 years for the perfect time and not once did she try to fix their friendship. Their friendship meant nothing to Lysandra because as soon as something
While revenge may feel sweet at times, in most cases it is destructive to yourself and those around you. The article “Revenge:Will You Feel Better?” makes one contemplate this, and draws the question “is revenge really worth it?” Well, in the article, Karyn Hall suggests that “Revenge can be a strong urge, but you may not feel better if you act on it.” In fact, in a study performed by Kevin Carlsmith showed that “...the students that got revenge reported feeling worse than those who didn't…” With this, one may see that revenge is pointless, and in most cases leaves you feeling worse than the people you performed it
...was sick and dying, but because she needed to know and understand for herself why Sula betrayed her in such a manner. Armed with the information that Sula was sick and may be in need of assistance since no one else in the neighborhood was willing to help her, she visited Sula for the last time. Nevertheless, Sula had not changed, she still considered herself to be above reproach for whatever deeds she committed. Nel finally understood her friend for who she really was and realized that even though she did not like some of her way, she liked the good parts of her enough to forgive the bad. She is finally able to not only cross the chasm that was created in their friendship by Sula’s betrayal but she realized how much she really loved her as a friend, albeit a little too late since Sula was already dead. All in all Sula was a mean self-centered person whose only emotional outlet was in the person of her best friend Nel. They compliment each other in many ways and paint a myriad picture of what true friendship is all about. In friendship, one has to take the good with the bad, and the thick with the thin, and Sula and Nel were the best of friends in that respect.
For the meek, vengeance pleasures the soul; however, it is only temporal. Like an addictive drug, revenge soothes anger and tension by sedating the mind with ephemeral comfort. Despite the initial relief, pain ensues and conditions seem worse than before. Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the non-violence movement in India, stated once that “an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” There is no such thing as a sweet revenge.
Many people percieve revenge to be something that falls under justice, as they are driven by emotions, while others consider getting the police involved as serving justice. Moreover, some people find revenge to be pleasing and satisfying, but to argue the point that just because something is more satisfying does not mean it is
This is evident in the quote where Lysander says, “Athenian law cannot pursue us.” This would not of been a trial for them, but fate had something else in store. “Content with Hermia? No, I do repent The tedious minutes I with her have spent. Not Hermia, but Helena I love” (II.i ll. 118-12). Puck, a fairy, put cupid’s love juice into Lysander’s eyes. This is evident in the quote, “Night and silence! Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear. This is he my master said, despised the Athenian maid, and here the maiden, sleeping on the ground. Pretty soul, she durst not lie near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw all the power of this charm doth owe” (II.i ll. 76-85). As it states in the quote, it made him fall in love with the first person he saw, which happened to be Helena. This is proven when Lysander said, “but Helena I love”. Lysander told Hermia he was in love with Helena, not her, so the elopement was off. This is evident when he says, “I repent the minutes I spent with her.” This is difficult for Hermia because she is confused, and does not know what is going on, or why Lysander was acting this way. This is evident when she takes her
“Ding”, the bell had just come alive with a mighty ring, ending the last day of school. I began shoveling the materials from my trainwreck of a locker into my bag when a close friend of mine approached me. She began bragging about the birthday party she was planning. Her arrogance annoyed me because she did not invite me, claiming that I wouldn’t know anybody. Honestly, she probably was scared of what I would do to her reputation. All she ever thought about was herself, with no regard for others. This wasn’t the first time it happened, and this pattern began to anger me, I deserved better. And that is when I decided I didn’t need her, I left her to live her own life. I felt as free as a bird but she was left alone like Scrooge. My friend
Revenge is a fairly strong emotion; it’s wanting to retaliate towards those who wronged you. Revenge is such an uncontrollable form of retaliation that it can result in a destructive outcome or be carried out successfully. Although the results may vary, revenge sums up to one thing which is pain of some sort, affecting both parties or just one. Throughout history, we see many tales of revenge and redemption. Often revenge does leave the one carrying it out feeling victorious, but this can suddenly change as the process of karma generally begins in some tales.
Presented with many obstacles and complications to overcome, we know that Hermia is the protagonist in the play. She has relations with almost all the characters in the play. The first and most important relationship is her love, Lysander. From the very beginning we see that Hermia loves Lysander with all her heart and soul and he loved her the same. The only tragic flaw in their relationship was when Puck put the magic juice in Lysander's eyes and he fell in love with Helena. Hermia felt sad and rejected when that happened. But when Puck finally realized that he had made a mistake and corrected it, Hermia and Lysander were in their heavenly bliss of love once again.
Revenge, on the other hand, refers to an action taken by an individual as a response to an act of injustice. The principle of revenge is “an eye for an eye”…. Can revenge be justified and be as equally part of justice if they both seek retribution for a wrongdoing? The universal distinction between justice and revenge is quite distinctive, is there more beyond their differences? Revenge is retaliation by a wronged party against the person or people they see as having caused the wrong.
Revenge is such an enormous part of a being human. It is something that no matter how much you try to avoid part of you will persistently lust for it. When you are hurt in any way your natural instinct will always tell you to make the one who hurt you feel just as bad if not worse as how you felt. It is such a natural and powerful feeling, that when revenge is incorporated into a story it makes it so much stronger. Revenge will make you see so many more sides of characters and make them seem much more complex. Revenge can give fictional characters a more human quality. That is why so many writers use it as their theme.
The stoop outside of my apartment building was where my friends and I would play jacks, shoot marbles or jump rope - whatever the day’s activity. As he would pass us, Elaine’s fiancé would stop and play with us momentarily or share a funny joke. Gradually, I came to like the man. They were soon married in our neighbor’s backyard and moved into the Buckners' apartment. Before long, the whole block began to experience a different side of them, and thus starts the parellel with They All Just Went Away.
Taking revenge is a bitter sweet thing. I have always thought that people should always get what they desire, whether it be a grade, a smile and hug or in some cases, revenge. When I was in high school there seemed to be someone always trying to get me in trouble, they would say things that wouldn’t be true or do things to make me look bad. The fact that I never seemed to do anything to them would make me mad and wonder what I could do to get them back. Revenge would usually come in some sort of verbal put down or I would try to physically hurt them. It always seemed when I would get the revenge right away I would feel really good but as I thought about what I did, and what they did to me I would always feel guilty or wish I would have never done anything to them in return.
People can be motivated to take revenge on others for various reasons. While these reasons may be considered as very serious or rather trivial, they are all motives for revenge. Revenge occurs when a person has been offended or angered by an individual and in result they have the desire to pay them back. People’s opinions on revenge differ from each other, some may believe it is justified and some don’t. Mahatma Ghandi believed that revenge is not the answer and he stated that “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”. This quote portrays the opinion that if everyone gets even then there will be no one else; if we all take an eye for an eye everyone would be blind. Revenge can be learnt through real life experiences as well as fiction and can be shown as justice or unacceptable. It becomes difficult to determine when revenge can be justified but is revenge always worth it?
Revenge is an incurable disease the adds flame to the fire of violence, we must stand up and put out this fire before it is inherited by the youth to come.