Short Story Analysis Essay In the short story, “ The Cheater’s Guide to Love” by Junot Diaz, the main character, Yunior discusses his relationship with his unnamed ex - girlfriend as well as other women he called sucias before calling them by their name over the course of several years. The narrator undergoes many hardships over his ended relationship with his ex because the life he was once so accustomed to no longer exists. Diction and Syntax are used to reveal the character's true personality through his tone despite his many tactics and attempts to cover it up. Diaz uses diction to show how truly broken Yunior, the narrator feel and is. As the years begin to pass the narrator begins to “ [harbor] a lot of grievances against her” (1). This is an example of diction as the narrator admits that he has hard feeling against his ex - girlfriend. These hard feeling do not come off nicely though, they are expressed as anger. His feelings of anger cause him to act and say certain things overtime. However, throughout the next five years of his life the situations he …show more content…
undergoes always revert back to his past relationship and the effect that is continues to have on him. Although the author is upset about his breakup the way he attempted to covered up his pain is by saying as many terrible things about her as possible and trying new activities to keep himself occupied. However, due to an unforeseen health issue he must stop. His diction suggests that he is unsettled because years later she still has a negative effect on his life and some things about her can not seem to leave his mind. Whenever he comes in contact with a “sucia” thoughts of his unnamed ex come to mind and they quickly change his mood and mindset in a negative way. The fact that he openly admits that he has had hard feeling towards his unnamed ex - girlfriend shows how truly broken he is and continues to be. Yunior mentions how “ she didn’t give good h***, [he] hated the fuzz on her cheeks, [and] she never waxed her p****, [and] [that] she never cleaned up around the house apartment,etc” (1). The narrator's diction here, leads the reader to believe that he is angry at his ex because of what he considers to be her flaws. The narrator's tone here is vexed. This is heavily expressed through his diction especially on the first page of the short story. The use of syntax throughout this story plays a key role in expressing how the narrator feels about his ex - girlfriend and his new life without her in the racists city of Boston, the place the narrator said he never wanted to live or could every imagine himself living. Diaz uses short sentences with several exclamation marks to show how the narrator feels. The narrator “ [tries] every trick in the book to keep her. [he] writes her letters, [he] [drives] her to work, [he] quotes Neruda, [etc]” (1). Here despite several attempts to win her over and makes her happy again he is unsuccessful. This eventually leads to him breaking up with the unnamed female and starting over. This creates the tone because his life now has little to structure because he now does whatever he pleases with other females when he sees fit. The use of short sentences here causes the reader speed up and read faster which leads to the believe that the reader is anxious and out of breath. The tone is anxious. This is expressed through the use of many short sentences placed together. Yunior feels this way because after endless attempts to try and rekindle their relationship he is unsuccessful and they eventually break up. The narrator's feeling are still extremely rocky and his sentence structure shows this. When the sentences are short and easy for the reader to read they go quicker thus creates an anxious setting for the reader leading them to believe that the narrator or Yunior feels just the same. To continue, the main way that the tone can be depicted in the story is through the narrator’s actions after the break up.
He moves away to “ Boston [which] is really racist” (6). While in the city of Boston Yunior encounters many troubles that leave him confused and lost. The setting definitely affects the tone of the story because the Yunior does not feel completely comfortable in the city that he currently lives in which adds to his feeling of depression. Because the narrator is unhappy in his current setting he feels extremely unsettled and lead to him acting as such. These actions include attempting to sleep around, contacting his ex- girlfriend whom is still unnamed and associating with people that do not give his the best advice and lead him into making decisions that could possibly create trouble for him. Here, he has friends and meet up with several different women over the course of five
years. He struggles with health issues, weight issues and lack of sex which causes his friend to encourage him to make choices and to associate himself with women he knows are not the best for him. For example, “Noemi, [a] Dominican from Bani, she is instantly guarded, and that adds to [his] irritation”(4). Here, the narrator expands upon how he wants his needed to be addressed. This adds to the tone of being unsettled because when Yunior is without things he considered to be necessities such as sex he begins to expresses feeling of frustration and irritation. In conclusion, in the short story, “ The Cheater’s Guide to Love” by Junot Diaz the tones of the story as anger and anxious. This was heavily expressed through the author’s use to diction and syntax to show character traits and emotion.
"Love in L.A.," written by Dagoberto Gilb, is a story full of irony and multiple themes. The story is set in Hollywood during the summer time. Written in third person objective, "Love in L.A." guides the reader along through the story as opposed to an omniscient point of view.
The most preeminent quality of Sonia Sanchez “Ballad” remains the tone of the poem, which paints a didactic image. Sanchez is trying to tell this young people that we know nix about love as well as she is told old for it. In an unclear setting, the poem depicts a nameless young women and Sanchez engaged in a conversation about love. This poem dramatizes the classic conflict between old and young. Every old person believes they know more then any young person, all based on the fact that they have been here longer then all of us. The narrative voice establishes a tone of a intellectual understanding of love unraveling to the young women, what she comprehends to love is in fact not.
Common sense seems to dictate that commercials just advertise products. But in reality, advertising is a multi-headed beast that targets specific genders, races, ages, etc. In “Men’s Men & Women’s Women”, author Steve Craig focuses on one head of the beast: gender. Craig suggests that, “Advertisers . . . portray different images to men and women in order to exploit the different deep seated motivations and anxieties connected to gender identity.” In other words, advertisers manipulate consumers’ fantasies to sell their product. In this essay, I will be analyzing four different commercials that focuses on appealing to specific genders.
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Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco. After graduating from Stanford she moved east to earn a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University. Olds describes the completion of her doctorate as a transitional moment in her life: standing on the steps of the library at Columbia University, she vowed to become a poet, even if it meant giving up everything she had learned. The vow she made--to write her own poetry, no matter how bad it might be--freed her to develop her own voice. Olds has published eight volumes of poetry, includes The Dead and the Living (1984), The Wellspring (1996), The Gold Cell, (1987) etc. As in her earlier works, she has been praised for the courage and emotional power of her work which continues to witness pain, love, desire, and grief with persistent courage. "Sex Without Love," by Sharon Olds passionately describes the author's disgust for casual sex and her attitude toward loveless sex as a cold and harmful act. She brilliantly uses various poetic techniques to animate the immortality of loveless sex through her words and her great description evoke clear image in the reader mind.
All played a major role in the man and as a result, Yunior did what others told him or expected him to do, at the cost of his own ambitions. He became just like Rafa and Ramon! “Sucios of the worst kind and now it’s official: you are one, Diaz closes the book with a tragic ending with the last chapter “The Cheaters Guide to Love,” Yunior’s life and progression from young immigrant learning English from Sesame Street to a middle aged man reflecting on an empty life and deteoriating health. At this point he is on the journey from boy to man and realizes the error of his womanizing ways. Karma, has finally come back around and the pain from Yunior’s heart break sends him into depression and emotional rock bottom. “When realizing that in your lying cheater’s heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.” (Diaz, pg.
In the short story “The Cheater’s Guide to Love” by Junot Diaz, the author pinpoints on the Yunior’s life as a writer and college professor who is also struggling with his romantic relationships. The short story is filled with his experiences of using women for his beneficial needs and how it negatively affects him. It focuses on Yunior’s downfall through life after the destruction of his relationship with his fiance. The diction includes the narrator’s hateful consideration of women and a paradox of his own endeavors which prevent him from pursuing a meaningful relationship, but he grows to realize that he treats women awfully and his ex did the right thing by leaving him due to his untruthfulness.
“Without Conscience" by Robert D. Hare is one aimed towards making the general public aware of the many psychopaths that inhabit the world we live in. Throughout the book Hare exposes the reader to a number of short stories; all with an emphasis on a characteristic of psychopaths. Hare makes the claim that close monitoring of psychopathy are vital if we ever hope to gain a hold over Psychopathy- A disorder that affects not only the individual but also society itself. He also indicates one of the reasons for this book is order to correctly treat these individuals we have to be able to correctly identify who meets the criteria. His ultimate goal with the text is to alleviate some of the confusion in the increase in criminal activity by determining how my of this is a result of Psychopathy.
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In "The Rules of the Game," a short story about a young Chinese-American girl, Waverly Jong, embarks journey to become a chess master. Waverly's mother believes she is a key component during this journey. Even though the mother actually has no true role in Waverly's adventure, she continues to believe it is her as the one who is succeeding. This belief is a necessity for Waverly's mother because she has nothing for herself. Waverly's mother has to live through her daughter because of her own lack of success.
The novel “This Is How You Lose Her”, by Junot Diaz, consist of multiple short stories that connects with the main overall story and character. All of the story, except for one, is narrated by the main character, Yunior. Yunior was once a bookworm but began leading down the path of uncertainty, and multiple love affairs that many times ruined his relationships. Although the story has some focus on his family affairs, everything would always tie back to love lost. One chapter focused on his families struggle to live in the US. It exemplifies that every human being does not like being alone. Yunior definitely had a thing going with Ms. Lora. Theoretically, the relationship that Yunior had with her had put a strain in his lust for a “secret” type
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For my honors assignment, I chose the TED talk “The secret to desire in a long-term relationship” by couple’s therapist Esther Perel. As I read down the list through my options for the assignment write up, this one caught my attention right away. I feel as though this article specifically lured me in because I could relate to it the most, taking that I have been in a long-term relationship for seven years. I felt that choosing to write about this TED talk would be beneficial to me in hearing what Esther Perel had to say on the topic that may affect someone just like me, and to also connect to all that we have learned in FSHD 237 this semester.
Janice A. Radway teaches in the literature program at Duke University. Before moving to Duke, she taught in the American Civilization Department at the University of Pennsylvania. She says that her teaching and research interests include the history of books and literary production in the United States, together with the history of reading and consumer culture, particularly as they bear on the lives of women. Radway also teaches cultural studies and feminist theory. A writer for Chronicle of Higher Education described Radway as "one of the leaders in the booming interdisciplinary field of cultural studies." Her first book, Reading the Romance (1984) has sold more than 30,00 copies in two editions. Her second book, A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire appeared in October of 1997. What follows is a topic-outline of the introduction to the English version of her first book.