Erich Segal "Love Story"

In "Love Story" Erich Segal begins telling the story by letting the audience know since the very first line in the novel that one of the main characters in the book, called Jenny, dies. It was very interesting to me the way he started the book. Usually, most of the writers whenever writing a book first tell the story and than tell the end of it (they use the chronological order). However, Erich, first told us the end of the story, that Jenny dies, and then starts explaining the story chronologically.
Oliver Barret IV, is a guy that comes from a very rich family and studies at the Harvard University. Jennifer Cavillieri comes from a poor Italian family and she was raised only with her father. They meet each other at the library where Jenny was working. What really made me laugh in these first chapters that we read was when Jenny told Oliver that he was stupid, and he asked her why she thought so. She says to him that she would never go out with him, and to that he replies that he would never ask her out. However, Jenny once again proves herself as a very smart girl and explains him that HE IS STUPID BECAUSE HE WOULDN'T ASK HER TO GO OUT!!!!
And that is where the whole romance began. They went out for a coffee, fell deeply in love with each other, and finally decided to get married.

Carlos Drummond De Andrade "Don't Kill Yourself"

In his poetry Andrade encourages us to continue living even if we face difficulties because life is not as easy as we might believe it is. Andarde even explains that life is not so easy with the contrast that he uses when he says HAPPY and SCREWED UP. I really like how he presents to the audience and to the reader the truth on life, and than does not find escaping the truth or committing suicide as a solution. He states that we should continue living the life even though we might feel hopeless at one moment. Moreover, Carlos explains how people hide their true feelings and their sadness deep within their hearts, because they are used to do so, rather than express themselves to someone and feel better. I really find my personality here, because I am the kind of the person who does not express the feelings in front of someone. 

Philip Larkin "This Be the Verse"

This poetry reminded me so much of my self when I was in my teenage ages. It perfectly explains the relationship between a teenager and his/her parent. In this poetry Philip Larkin presents the parents in the eyes of a teenager as very old-fashioned people. That is exactly what I always thought of my parents when I was 15 or 16 years old. In those ages we feel that our parents do not really understand us and they are guilty for everything that happens in our life. It is good to have someone to blame, huh???

"Love Song" by Dorothy Parker

This poetry explains exactly how a woman feels when she falls in love with a man. Sometimes, females do not want to give their-selfs to males, completely. What I mean by saying this is that they do not want to be so much related to them. However, not every female has such a strong character in order to be very independent and keep the distance with her partner. This poem presents us a case of the female that is not strong enough to resist her feelings, even though she wants to control herself, still in the end of the poem she falls so much in love with her partner because what she feels in her heart is much stronger than what her mind wants her to do.

"Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines" by Pablo Neruda

In his poem "Tonight I can write the saddest lines", Pablo Neruda, talks about his lost love. The poet writes down on a paper all his feelings for his beloved one. He remembers the days when he used to kiss her under the open sky. The fact that makes the poet really angry is that her eyes and body will now belong to someone else. The body that once was his, now will be another man's. He tries to convince himself that he does not love her any more, but yet he doubts that he does. However, what the author knows for sure is that these lines that he wrote for her would be the last ones that he will dedicate to her. Moreover, he swears that this will be the last night that he feels pain because of loosing her.
I really liked the poem very much, it was so sad and romantic. The author has expressed very well how someone feels when he brakes up with his/her girlfriend/boyfriend (the one that s/he truly loved).

These lines were the ones that I liked most in the poem:

"The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance"

"MY LOVER THE SEA" by Reinaldo Arenas

In this poem, the author Reinaldo Arenas, describes the life of the children that were abandoned, and their predicted future which is "to become criminals". In the very first lines of his poetry, Reinaldo Arenas mentions the sadness these children feel because they were left, and the shame that they have because they do not feel as part of the normal world; more precisely they feel anxious and afraid that they actually bother the other members of the society. Further, the author expresses the different phases of these children. Firsly, they feel abandoned and ashamed of the fact that they are unwanted by the other people. Secondly, they start to hate these people because of leaving them besides and considering them unworthy. Thirdly, they want to revenge to all these people that made them feel so bad; thus, finally, they become criminals. Another fact that should really make us worried is that nobody cares about these children and their life; which is so poor and full of misery. They do not even try to find a family who can take care of these children, therefore, their life ends up being prisoned and accused of various kinds of crimes. People should understand the fact that they are just "children" and they need to be loved and cared for just like every other child in the world.

The End of "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

Now I can really understand the behavior of Mersault. He just does not feel as a part of the society, also the society did not actually let him express his self and find his place in the world. He did not speak in front of the jury and the prosecutor, he did not reject what they said, he did not complain about anything. Simply, he was not given the space to express his self. Mersault believes in what happens today, what is there, what can be seen and touched. The society considers him as a "junk" and someone who does not have the right to be part of the society. Moreover, he does not take the things to seriously because he considers that life had brought them, and  it is all just momentary. Even being a few hours before the execution, he does not really care what the priest has to say, he does not want to confess. Mersault doesn't believe in God, he believes in the moment, and no matter how much the priest tries to explain to him why should he confess, Mersault, in a very smart way responds to him and continues not to regret on the things that he had done, and the life that he had lead.
And there we are, at the end of the book, waiting for Mersault to be executed, but the author never mentions and does not even speak about the execution. We only know that the early morning is arising.
"The Stranger" was one of the best books that I have read so far, even though, it was very hard to understand it, I really enjoyed every single line that I read because I could connect the Mersault's behaviour with psychology and philosophy. The book really made me go beyond only reading it.