Abstract
In this article, the writer discusses that Toni Morrison's novel 'Love' is far from being a simple love story. Instead, the writer claims that it is a novel that delves into several major themes related to the family. This includes issues of child abuse and neglect, issues related to families and extended families, rape and violence against women, the role of the father in a family and the role of friendship. Each of these major themes are considered, with the discussion showing how the novel deals with each theme and what Morrison is suggesting about each of the issues.

Contents:
Child Abuse and Neglect
Family and Extended Family
Rape and Violence Against Women
The Role of the Father
The Role of Friendship

From the Paper
"One of the interesting things about Cosey's family is how the family is created by Cosey's decisions, while all the members of the family have to live with his decisions. This is clearly seen in Cosey's marriage to Heed, which Christine has to cope with. Christine is Cosey's granddaughter, so she cannot escape being part of Cosey's family. When Cosey decides to marry Heed, Cosey and Heed become linked as family. This relationship is always based on conflict as both women continue to reject each other. Yet as much as they continue to reject each other, they can never escape from each other. Cosey's decisions have linked them as family whether they like it or not. This is made especially clear when Christine is described deciding to leave, with Morrison describing her as thinking "Put on your shoes, old man, and look at me good now, because you will never see me again". This is more than just a statement about not seeing Cosey. It is also a statement about leaving her family forever."

Tags:abuse, family, violence, welfare

Abstract
This paper discusses love, a universal feeling and emotion that is as old as humankind. The writer cites the famous love story of Tristan and Isolde, as one example of the extreme mentality to which love can take us. The writer suggests that the embarrassment that we as a society feel about love has been brought on by media and too many Hollywood movies about how love can go wrong. The writer provides definitions of love from several sources, and concludes that we may never know what love is exactly, but we understand the emotions that accompany loving and feeling loved and these sensations will live on until the end of time.

From the Paper
"Tristan and Isolde's love for each other is not something that is made up. Real people feel that they could and would do anything to keep the love they have found; as Campbell puts it, "Love is the meaning of life, it is the high point of life" (Campbell 238). This natural high that you can achieve from being in love is what most people crave for. Human beings want to feel care, affection, respect, and commitment because they give us a glimmer of hope that true love does exist. However, as a society we have come to fear and be embarrassed by love. Many men and women who are questioned if they are indeed in love will respond with a short handed "no." Personally, I think that people are afraid to show their true feelings because they are frightened at the reaction that they may receive."

Tags:envy, culture, individual, abuse, will, intention, self-consciousness

Abstract
This paper provides a comparison and contrast of Raymond Carver's characterization of Mel and Terri and their understanding of love versus Nick's and Laura's in the short story, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love." The different types of love discussed by the couples and what they ultimately know about love are addressed.

From the Paper
"The two couples sitting around drinking gin and discussing love in Raymond Carver's short story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" try to define love and its meaning. Nick, the narrator, and his new wife, Laura, discuss love as they drink cocktails with Mel and his second wife, Terri. As Nick tells us of Mel; "My friend Mel McGinnis was talking. Mel McGinnis is a cardiologist and sometimes that gives him the right." Ironically, despite his physical knowledge of the..."

Tags:romantic, spiritual, abuse, rejection, meaning, fulfillment, nourishment, food, alcohol, marriage

Abstract
The paper shows how the love of children expressed by Henry Esmond in Thackeray's novel reflects little evidence that he did in fact love children. The paper discusses how Henry's abuses as an orphaned child made him unable to love children, since he did not receive much love as a child within his own peer group.

Tags:thackeray, esmond, history

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The paper describes Tony Morrison's "Beloved" as an extremely challenging and often harrowing novel. It deals with monumental issues, such as slavery, sexual abuse of women, motherhood, murder, ghosts, love between adults and maternal love. The paper explains that this is challenging in itself and is made even more difficult by the complex prose style and by the interpolation of magical realism into the fact-based plot. Moreover, due to the numerous themes in the book, it can be challenging to even pin down the most important themes. However, this essay argues that the single most important theme to evaluate in this book is love, primarily maternal love.

Tags:toni, morrison, beloved

Abstract
This paper focuses on cause and effect in the story of "What's Love Got to Do with It." The paper further reveals three different causes: abandonment, rejection, and jealousy as seen in the story. The effect of the first cause is Anna Mae is determined not to leave her children and husband due to the cause of abandonment, the second cause is rejection of the public of Ike's music, and the third cause is jealousy and the effects of the second cause are drug abuse and domestic violence.

From the Paper
"A little girl, Anna Mae, is banished from singing with the choir because she can sing louder than anyone else in the church choir. Using Freytag's analysis will show that Anna Mae is the protagonist. The exposition in this story grabs the audience's attention because all the little girl wants to do is sing and to be loved. When Anna Mae goes to live with her mother, she goes with her sister to a bar where Ike Turner is singing. Different people from the audience are given the opportunity to sing so Anna Mae's sister encourages her to sing for Ike. Ike recognizes talent..."

Tags:cause, effect, freytag's pyramid

Abstract
This paper attempts to evenhandedly cover both the possibility of abuse in the relationship from both sides as well as the ability of Alice and Channing Lewis to cross sociocultural racial boundaries.

From the Paper
""Love Across the Color Lines" is a project that captures the interracial romance between Alice Hanley and Channing Lewis in the early 1900's. Horowitz, a genuine historian, shows intellectual honesty in her analysis of these letters, objectively chronicling both the ups and the downs of Channing and Alice's relationship to each other and the society that they lived in. Although their story was not without it's hurdles, the relationship is a unique and touching example of love across racial boundaries."

Tags:abuse, black, domestic, gender, history, marriage, race, relationship, sexism

Abstract
This paper reviews and compares two poems: "I Cannot Remember All the Times..." (1989) written by Jo Carson and "My Papa's Waltz" (1948) written by Theodore Roethke. Both poems explore ideas of abuse in the perspective of the person that is on the receiving side. Carson's poem talks of abuse from a boyfriend or husband while Roethke speaks of abuse of a child from a father. The paper examines how the different poetic elements such as sound, imagery, and symbolism are important to the themes of each poem and contribute to the understanding of the poems because they heighten the emotion and allow the reader to feel what the speaker is going through. The paper also looks at how one of the most relevant of these elements is the speaker/auditor relationship in each poem.

From the Paper
"In "My Papa's Waltz", the speaker appears to be a child speaking to his father and reflecting on what seems to be an abusive relationship. Although it is not universally agreed that this is a poem about child abuse, there are many images and diction choices that seem to point to that theme. There is a very simple rhyme scheme of ABAB and the poem is written in iambic trimeter so, there are important stresses on particular words that need to be followed. For example, in the first stanza, "But I hung on like death" (line 3), the word "death", the third stanza, "Was battered on one knuckle;" (10) the word "battered" and the fourth stanza, "You beat time on my head" (13) the word "beat". These words that are forced to have the stress contribute to a negative tone, especially within the rest of the context of the poem. The meter in this poem shows which words should be paid more attention to and which words have more importance."

Tags:audience, stanza, powerful

Abstract
This paper summarizes and reviews the Suzanne Britt's essay, "Love and Hate", and the point it makes about humans and the fulfillment they receive from hating others. The paper looks at Britt's idea that this need to hate supersedes the human need for love and that, while feelings of love are most often expressed in the written word, feelings of hate are most often expressed by deed.

From the Paper
"In her essay "Love and Hate", Suzanne Britt explores the human need to hate other people. Britt argues that many people receive a deep kind of fulfillment from hating others, and that hate will always supersede the quieter emotion of love. While many of her insightful comments have considerable merit, Britt's acerbic and pessimistic assertion that hate is dominant over love is debatable at best, and outright incorrect at its worst. While we disagree on many important points, I agree with Britt's final assertion that love should be shared freely."

Tags:follies, human, nature, writings, action, abuse, murder, rape, assertive, emotion

Abstract
In a relationship where the woman is constantly abused, emotions often propel her toward staying with the abuser. This paper discusses the emotional dynamics involved in these types of relationships. It questions why abused women stay with their partners and even claim to love them. The paper uses Anna Quindlen's book "Black and Blue" and Roddy Doyle's "The Women Who Walked into Doors" to explore these issues.

From the Paper
"A woman involved in an abusive relationship often grew up being abused. Therefore, she has learned how to cope with the abuse even seeing the abuse as almost "normal" or an "acceptable" part of everyday life. In Anna Quindlen's book Black and Blue, the main character, Frannie Flynn Benedetto, states, "There are ways and ways of dying, and some of them leave you walking around. I'd learned that from watching my father, and my husband, too" (Quindlen, p. 13). Frannie Flynn Benedetto makes a comparison between the behavior of her father and her abusive husband. One may infer by her statement that while growing up with her father, she learned how to live and get along in an abusive family situation."

Tags:Paula, Spencer, Frannie, Benedetto