RAYMOND CARVER'S "WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE" Stories, be they written or on screen, usually employ setting as a backdrop and having no direct relation to the actual storyline progression. This, however, is not the case in Raymond Carver's tale "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love." ... (Carver 170) Their main point of discussion is about Terri's ex-boyfriend, Ed, and how mentally unstable he was. ... He has a tough time trying to explain the feelings he used to have for his ex-wife, asking everyone else "How do you explain that? ... The element of su...

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We know why we die and what causes death, but we do not know if anything exists after death. ... When we die we just become cold unfeeling corpses buries under mounds of dirt. ... In the second stanza her find out this other lover has died. ... Those last three words, simple as they are, show how much the narrator loved this other man. ... She is asking the question we all ask when we think we have been unfairly treated: Why? ...

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There are many other themes that Shakespeare could have used and so we have to ask several questions to identify his reason for using love, and how his presentation of this love makes this the world famous play that it is. ... How does using it make the audience feel? ... In this play Shakespeare could be showing love to be a weakness, that in this case the love was not real and yet they died for it. ... Shakespeare understood fully the importance and value of language and how it could be used to trigger any number of emotions in the audience. ... If the audience did not know they were going t...

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"When we die, you can't take it with you" (p 124) This statement by Morrie sums up the main point of materialism. ... He had died a slow, painful death from pancreatic cancer, and watching him die had made Mitch feel helpless. ... We married after a seven-year courtship. ... We are all waves in the ocean. ... Morrie left this world, having taught us all about the evil of the cycle of appetite, where to find meaning in our lives, how to love, and how to let go. ...

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Everyone that died in the movie was either thrown or fell from the top of a building. ... The audience is able to understand exactly how much Scottie loved and cared for Madeleine. ... This type of repetition shows how powerful love can be. ... As is seen in the movie, the police officer in the beginning dies, Madeleine dies, Judy dies and Scottie dreams of his death. ... Modleski brings attention to the darkness of the film and how the repetition adds to the dark tone. ...

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A family is where we learn how to love one another. We experience the most comfortable love in the family. ... True lovers will die for one another. ... In this story we learn the strong love that Thisbe and Pyramus share. ... In conclusion, we see that all of these stories have a point to prove. ...

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The Sonnet defines an old man in a relationship with a younger lady who is dying and how much he loves her. ... The plot is defined under the subject of explicit where we know he's dying and that he's leaving. ... She loves him more because he is dying and time is running out. ... This creates imagery where not only we get the story, but we can relate these events with imaginary pictures in our minds. ... He's telling his audience about him getting old and how his life is ending and how he's going to miss her. ...

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We are invited to determine culpability for characters' deeds and to decide how fitting are their punishments. ... "That when we are sick in fortune...we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity" (I.ii.99-102). ... Thus we are left here to question justice. ... Gloucester's punishment, however, may also be viewed as an enlightenment for the old man who is reunited with his son, Edgar, and realizes just how "blind" he has been to Edmund's evil ways. ... The sense we make out of the issue of justice in this subplot is comm...

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If he dies he will end all the negative things in his life. ... Hamlets father comes to him in a form of a ghost and explain how claudius killed him. ... We know that it is not because he feels bad. ... A friend is someone we share our feelings with and they are the ones who give us suggestions if we are facing any crisis .Horatio is that person to Hamlet. ... He tells Horatio everything, even how he sent Guildenstern and Rosencrantz to their death. ...

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He is not teaching math, he is not teaching how to read, and he is not teaching how the human body works, but what he is teaching is with passion. ... After graduation, Mitch's uncle, who was like a father figure for Mitch, dies of a cancer. ... I like the idea of knowing that you are about to die now that I have read this novel. I would want to know when I am going to die, so that I would be prepared. ... He thought,We are all going to die anyway, what we do while we live makes no difference so why bother.? ...

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But that is not always the case as we see sometimes. There is so much more that outsiders do not see between two people, including how sometimes one of the outsiders could actually be a person in that relationship. ... When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease-of joy that kills" (KM 73). ... One is that it was such a tragic ending because she died of the shock of seeing her husband, and some will say how that is so unfair. Another perspective is that she dies happily, because she died freely. ...

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We aren't here to make things perfect. ... We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die" (Cage, 1987). Love is not perfect, and marriage is not perfect, we will stray, and we will become withdrawn; yet we will still engage in this sanctity; hoping we will be renewed. ... Johnny leaves for Sicily for his dying mother's blessing before marring Loretta. ... The music and dialogue would change; we would see hurt, anger and maybe revenge. ...

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Come, Desdemona: I have but an hour Of love, of worldly matters and direction, To spend with thee: we must obey the time. ... The verbal irony of this passage is how Othello calls Iago "Honest Iago". ... How say you, Cassio? ... And die in music. Singing Willow, willow, willow,-- Moor, she was chaste; she loved thee, cruel Moor; So come my soul to bliss, as I speak true; So speaking as I think, I die, I die. ...

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Due to the extreme weather in Tibet, lack of oxygen, cold, rain and storm, it is easy to die on half way of the pilgrimage. ... These words will change how we behave unconsciously and we tend to do good things without even noticing. ... Because we love and care about others, we will not harm each other and because we love ourselves, we will try our best to improve our own values.  ... The second part tells the story of how Ansset became mature after experienced difficulties and problems. ... The embalmer said, "Rich folks, poor folks, winners, losers, players, workers, they dies a hundr...

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Livingstone as a good person, we get to experience with Mr. Livingstone how the trials of this world transform people. ... He pledges to murder his wife: "Dora, it is by my will that you die! ... Die "Adulteress die" (119). ... It is beneficial to see these opposing sides of these characters so that when we view those around us, we take into account that their past could have a huge effect on their personalities...

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Love can also be confused with how you treat or act around someone. ... We talked for a short time and I found out that her aunt had just died from breast cancer. She was very close to her aunt so it hit her very hard when she died. So after I got off the phone I went out to the florist got her some flowers and picked her up and we went to get ice cream and then we went back to her house and we just sat and talked and I ended up helping her relax very much and even made her smile and laugh by the end. ... I know this because when my mom was going through with her surgery in her head, Colle...

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As we began to grow older, we came to the realization that life is a lot different than any of these fairy tales, and we claim that we know things are much different in the real world. But do we? ... But after her mother died, her father remarried a horrid woman who only married Cinderella's father for his money. ... Soon, Cinderella's father died, and she was left to be the slave to her stepmother. ... He had to choose his princess soon and he had not a clue how. ...

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Act I Scene 3 shows how important reputation is and how they see each other. ... "Now I see, I see in Fulvia's death, how mine received shall be" She turns everything on its head, leaving Antony dumbstruck, not knowing what to do or say. ... Antony is taken to see his Queen one last time before he dies and even when faced with her lover's death, Cleopatra cannot not stop performing. ... And even as Antony begins his dying words of: "I am dying, Egypt, dying. ... She is able to manipulate Antony easily and her play-acting often means that one questions who the real Cleopatra is an...

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But I am having a hard time with what Aristotle is saying because his highest form of friendship is superior to the rest of life's pleasures, such as, the joy of give and take that are found in our friendships or the pleasure of what he calls "bad men- and how they help each other forget who they or we have become. . ... Socrates looked out for his state, while Crito's arguments were based on himself and how others would view him. ... I think that Crito, in loving his friend Socrates, he would die for him, meaning he was truly a virtuous person, on the other hand a virtuous person ...

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This is another example of how close the gang is. ... Once Johnny dies, it is incomprehensible to Dally. He naturally refuses to cope with it, which ends up being the reason Dally dies. ... So Winston loses it when one thing he loved dies. ... Given these three points, we can conclude that people look after their close friends and family not even thinking about themselves....

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"We sense his genuine grief but are more painfully aware of his revulsion at his mother and loathing for Claudius" (Prosser 128). ... Hamlet's secret meaning behind this in layman's terms is, "How could you fall in love with Claudius, you should be in love with me!" ... Laertes and Hamlet are fatally wounded, and Laertes dies. ... Before he dies, Hamlet forces Claudius to die the same way his mother did because he believes that Claudius is now just as responsible for her death. Claudius drinks the poison and dies, shortly there after, Hamlet speaks his final words to his good f...

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As we study each character, it is relatively easy to see that no matter how painful love can be, it is usually to one's betterment to have experienced it. ... She has no concept of what love is, how it feels or how to react to it. ... We are able to see how love can make our senses expand to others and the world around us. ... Whether is awakens newfound self pride, broadens our emotional horizons, or deepens our introspection of self worth, it forever changes how we view ourselves and the world. ... We now see how love can open one's heart and mind to wonders previously unimagin...

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I think that the reason why the author made Matias act the way he did, was because it showed how the family was falling apart, and how they had different views on many topics. ... Throughout the story you learn that her mother controls Tita's life, and until her mother dies, Tita cannot live the life that she wishes to. ... Brown teaches Tita how to make matches. ... Tita and Pedro die a happy and peaceful life. ... Many pieces of literature that we read are full of symbolism. ...

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Here we will take a look at the authoritative aspects along with the powers of perception and desire. ... From here we were introduced to the relationship between Thesius and Hippolyta. ... This is yet another example of how the power of authority can direct actions of people which they dictate. ... A second example of how the fairies possess power to transform perceptions was again through the love-juice potion. ... We first see this through the character Helena. ...

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Oh God, please don't let her die. I'll do anything for you if you won't let her die You took the baby but don't let her die. ... Catherine dies from her birth labor. ... We heard raining on the roof- (125). ... He realizes how important Catherine is to him and shows her this by bringing her with him to Switzerland. ...

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