Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Men in your life and Seventeen Syllables
The story Seventeen syllables starts off telling the story of a young girl and almost right away goes into talking about how her mother is persuing her writing and it has left her father and her almost lonely. The story basically describes a husband and wife falling apart, and then their young daughter falling in love for the first time. I guess, this text was a romantic narrative, although, I am not positive how I feel about that. The second text, Men in your life, I believe is a true romantic narrative. In this text the woman is talking about the man that she is going to marry, Eddie. She is telling stories of things that they have done together and she is talking about the different reasons that she loves him. It differs from the first story because in the first story the young girl was telling the story of her love life, but also the destruction that was happening to her her parents love life. Both stories dont really put all that great of an outlook on love. The first one ends with a mother asking her only daughter to promise that she will never marry, and the second one seems to just be listing different reasons to marry a man because of the things that he does for you. Neither approach love or marriage as something you do because you really love and care about another person.
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I kind of had some similar ideas about the readings. I didn't really see either of them as romantic narratives though. I more thought of them as depressing. The one about the break up of your parents marriage, that would devestate me personally. And then her mother making her promise never to marry. That was not romantic at all.
I thought the emotions that the people felt were romantic in a way even though the texts weren't typical romantic narratives. I also had similar feelings about deciding whether they were considered romantic or not.
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