They love us to death Pamod Alawattage
My sister had a puzzled look on her face as she examined the scar marks on my father’s shoulder. She had been at it for the past five minutes until she finally broke the silence and asked, “Papa! How did you get those marks on your shoulder?” My father with a humorous tone exclaimed how as a child he attempted to secretly ride my grandfather’s motorcycle and was beaten by a leather belt more than 40 years back at their home in India. Though he ended his story with a bass toned giggle which had no expression what so ever, I didn’t find anything funny about the story until my sister’s next statement. “Grandpa was such a cruel man.” To this my father’s reply was, “He was a man of principle, He wanted to discipline us because he loved us” I was enlightened, all the problems that seemed to have bothered me as a child vanished before my eyes. It now made sense as to why father would come home drunk every once in a while and beat my mother with a belt till she couldn’t feel her back. It wasn’t because my father was an alcoholic, or senseless enough continue doing so in front of his children. It was because he loved us too much like his father once did. I now realize It wasn’t rage that drove him. He was so passionate about my mother and our family he couldn’t find any other way to express his feelings other than to throw the television out the window. I couldn’t believe how he didn’t see himself paying 800$ for a new TV. Well, you can’t really blame the poor man. After all, love is blind.
This also explained his behaviour when I got a B+ on my report card last year. “You got B? B is for BITCH!” were the exact words that came out of his mouth. I got slapped multiple times that day before he threw my report card away. Though I was unhappy and disappointed in myself, I felt lucky at the same time. At least my parents weren’t Chinese, Chinese parents know Kung Fu. The hopes and dreams they hope to achieve through
illustrate his compassion in the idea of immortality. In Sonnet 18 Shakespeare uses personification heavily in giving objects human qualities to reflect establish mortality in his muse. Doing so, helps the reader relate to the object to life and death. The first instance of personification is in the first quatrain , Shakespeare writes, Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, meaning Winds choke the lovely buds with hands of May. By giving natural element…
the satisfaction through his death. However, Jesus had to pay this satisfaction as a man, as man owed the satisfaction, and as God, as only God could pay the needed satisfaction. Therefore, Jesus’ crucifixion was a substitutionary payment paid by Christ to God. Though some see this theory as portraying God as bloodthirsty, Anselm credits this to God’s love, mercy and compassion. Through Christ’s death, God is satisfied, his wrath is satisfied and the penalty of death is satisfied. This means that…
particular extract but the one I am going to focus on today is “love”. We can have platonic, family, or romantic love. But what is love? In the play, love is presented through Romeo and Juliet almost as a disease that makes the characters physically ill and make irrational decisions. Romeo and Juliet show romantic love for each other through their willingness to die to be with the other. After hearing the news of Juliet’s apparent death, a distraught Romeo decides he would rather die than live without…
events have to lead to their deaths, and some people make these events happen. The persons who started it all and did something that led to all the other events that caused the death of ‘’a pair of star-crossed lovers’’ (Shakespeare). The Capulet’s and Montague’s would be the most responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because if their ancestors didn’t start fighting, nothing terrible would have happened. First of all, at the beginning of the book tell us about the hate and envy between…
By her high forehead and her scarlet lip, By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh, And the demesnes that there adjacent lie, That in thy likeness thou appear to us! Later, in a long and comical speech on love, he mockingly describes love in explicitly sexual terms: ...For this drivelling love is like a great natural that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. Later in one his more famous scenes, he relentlessly mocks the Nurse by comparing her dress t…
ends, or not. It is also believed that having a capacity for love brings about all divine decisions. As an infant most humans have no concept of right and wrong. Most children are raised with some sort of religion, and with what their parents consider to be morally sound. Once we hit our teenage years, is where we start to develop our internal scales of right and wrong. It is also where we start to gain an understanding of, life and death. Most people follow the moral rules of their society, from…
“Dog’s Death” The loss of a pet is hard on most people. For many, pets become a component of the family. In “Dog’s Death” the death of a family canine is described. The author uses concrete details and events of the dog’s life and death that implicatively insinuates that this poem emanates from a personal experience. The tone of the poem is woeful, but the author mentions how the canine was just starting to learn to utilize the newspaper and even does one last time pre mortem. Unexpected deaths are…
values than death. To these young soldiers, they didn’t care about valor, courage, or bravery. It was about hiding their shame and spinelessness. All the physical things they carried served as an icon for the emotional and mental baggages each soldier would endure after the war. For instance, Lieutenant Cross blames Ted Lavender’s death on his fantasy with Martha. That emotional baggage carried by Jimmy Cross not only stayed with him throughout the war, but he also had to endure Ted’s death after the…
were gray. Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove Over tedious riddles of years ago; And some words played between us to and fro On which lost the more by our love. The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing Alive enough to have strength to die; And a grin of bitterness swept thereby Like an ominous bird a-wing…. Since then, keen lessons that love deceives, And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me Your face, and the God curst sun, and a tree,…
waited for him to proceed down the aisle. Once the volunteer ended the song, Father Chad welcomed the congregation, then told us to sit down. At my church, we sing several songs of worship with our Pastor all together. We don’t stand up and wait for the priest or in Christianity we call him a pastor, to walk in and tell us to sit down. The priest then opened his sermon by telling us what he was going to talk about during the mass, and emphasized having “Joy” over the Christmas season. Father Chad began…