Love story by Erich Segal

Love Story, by Erich Segal, is story of a love that in the end will turn out to be a tragic one. The main protagonists are Oliver Barret and Jennifer Cavilleri, the ones that fall in love with each other, trying to get through ever obstacle that appears in front of them. Oliver is portrayed as a child of a rich and important family for many generations. On the other hand, Jennifer is described as the only child of a widowed baker. Since the beginning we can see the differences in the social class, but the two, fall in love with one another and this seemed of a less importance to them. Even though at first, their relationship starts as a not-a-serious-relationship, from time to time both realize that their love is even much stronger that they believed to be. Oliver, being a ladies’ man, begs Jennifer not to leave him once they talk about their futures; because, Jennifer plans to continue her studies of music in Paris, what would mean that their roads would be separated. He rushes and asks her to marry him, and I think that this was a test of their love, of their seriousness.

Although, the author says that Jennifer will die at the age of 26, I still have a hope that something will change throughout the story and she lives to be happily ever after with Oliver. In the end, that is the way all of the other love stories turn out to be, why wishing for this story to be any different? 

But after all, their relationship will survive every obstacle that they may confront, except one, mortality.

Under One Small Star by Wislawa Szymborska

It is said that the hardest three words to say are "I love you," and "I am sorry." In the poem of Wislawa, Under one small star, the author asks for forgiveness repetitively, and what is interesting is that she apologizes to the things that may seem absurd to most people. She apologizes to the desert that she cannot water them, to the trees that are cut so people would built tables, to everyone that she cannot be everywhere at once.. She apologizes so beautifully to every part of our life, and hopes for forgiveness. In my opinion, the author's aim is to make us aware of what surrounds us and how careful we should be with our behavior. Wislawa puts all of the world's surroundings under one small star, and makes them seem smaller even though they are larger than life most of the time... 

I enjoyed reading every single line of her poem, and what I liked the most about the poem are these lines:

"My apologies to great questions for small answers.
Truth, please don't pay me much attention."

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"My apologies to everything that I can't be everywhere at once.
My apologies to everyone that I can't be each woman and each man.
I know I won't be justified as long as I live,
since I myself stand in my own way."

 In conclusion, all of us live our own life in our own way and our lives matter; however, we should appreciate everything even the smallest details that in appearance may seem unimportant.

Love Song by Dorothy Parker

I enjoyed reading “Love song,” because it has its irony that describes the "real" love between a couple. In my opinion, Parker wrote her poem the way she did, just to leave space for the reader to contrast the other love poems of her time with hers, because each love story has its ups and downs. She has a unique way of describing her love towards her man, and even though she wishes that she had never met him and for him to get shot, yet, she still loves him and he is all her world.

My favorite parts of the poem are:

"My own dear love, he is all my world, --
And I wish I'd never met him."

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"My own dear love, he is all my heart, --
And I wish somebody'd shoot him."

 

Susie Asado By Gertrude Stein

Even though I couldn't understand and relate any of the lines that Stein has written in her poetry "Susie Asado," I still find it quite interesting. "Susie Asado," even though I did not understand if the poetry says something about Susie Asado, or if she is sweet as tea, or that she drinks pups, makes me as the reader read it over and over again, and only then to try and picture what she is describing. Hence, Stein has left space for the reader to understand her poetry in the way they "understand" it, in the way they picture it, and shape an idea of what she is talking about. Personally, I DID NOT understand anything that she was trying to portray or describe in this poetry. The only thing I got is that the tea is sweet :)))).  But, Stein, not only was a writer, she was also well known for her art collection and her Paris salon. Thus, I guess that she was a woman with interesting ideas about life, art, and also an interesting way of portraying her thoughts in words.

Gertrude Stein

The Stranger - The grand finale

The ending of The Stranger leaves us, say, dissapotinted sice Mersault doesn't even try to defend himself during his trial. Even when the the trial ended with the decision of "chopping" his head as a punishment, he had nothing to say to noone. He took the decision like it is something irelevant for him, that is without any matter for his own life. I think that the character of Mersault portrays a person that has the courage to do and say everything that a person with senses and morals would. Hence, in my opinion, Camu created the protagonist with such a personality that is not afraid to hide it, but rather show it and not care about the comments of others. But, what can a reader add more, Mersault did this all to himself. He could've had a different life that would've had taken him towards different courses if he would've acted differently towards others, towards his own life.