The Power of Love to Destroy

1. The Power of Love to Destroy By: Gabby Scott

2. Cat in the Rain • Desiree’s Baby Short Stories

3. A wife “American wife” and her husband George are at a hotel on vacation in Italy. • The wife wants to go rescues this cat that she sees outside in the rain. • Her husband George doesn’t pay very much attention to her. • I believe that cat symbolizes her because she just wants someone to rescues her and she her some affection. • The wife tries everything to get George’s attention but George just say “oh, shut up and get something to read”. • The wife just wants George to pay attention to her and love her but he doesn’t care about anything but his books. Cat in the Rain

4. In Desiree’s Baby, Desiree marries Armand and at first they are happy and in love. • When Desiree gets pregnant and has her child Armand notices that the child is black. • At first Desiree doesn’t notice that her child is black, once she realizes Armand blames it on Desiree. • Desiree’s mother tells her to bring the baby and herself back home where they will help take care of the baby. • Desiree believes that she is the cause of her child being black so she commits suicide with her baby. Desiree’s Baby

5. Marks • Since There’s No Help Poems

6. In the poem, Marks the wife is talking about how her family grades her on the work she does. • She talks about how her husband gives her grade letters on things like cooking, ironing, and sex. • She son tells her she is an average mother. • Her daughter tells her that she passes as a good mother. • At the end of the poem the mother says “Wait ‘til they learn I’m dropping out”. • The mother is so fed up with everyone in her family grading her ad treating her like crap that she leaves her family. Marks

7. In the poem, Since There’s No Help, their love is dying and the husband accepts this and believes that they should just go there separate ways. • The husband believes that there is no helping this relationship that its over. • In the last lines he leaves their relationship in the hands of his wife, he believes that maybe they could fix this but he leaves it all in the hands of his wife. Since There’s No Help

8. Slam the Door Softly • Antigone Drama

9. In the play, Slam the Door Softy, Nora is leaving her husband Thaw to start her own career. • Nora starts by telling Thaw everything he will need to know while she is gone, but Thaw is too busy ignoring her that he doesn’t notice she is leaving him until she tries to walk out the door. • Thaw tries everything to keep Nora from leaving him but because Thaw never listens and ignores Nora constantly, Nora still proceeds to leave him. • Nora leaves Thaw because she wants to be more than a housewife, she wants a career, she also wants to show him that she can do other things besides being a mother and housewife. • In the end Nora leaves Thaw, Nora loves Thaw but after the way he’s treated her and belittled her, she could no longer stay with him. Slam the Door Softly

10. In the play, Antigone, Antigone is punished for burying her brother. • Creon is the King of Thebes and the uncle of Antigone, he created this law that they couldn’tbury Antigone’s brother because he fought for the other side. • Antigone went against the law and buried her brother, when Creon found out that Antigone had broken the law, he sent her away and abandoned her. • Antigone and Harmon were supposed to get married, but after Antigone had broken the law Harmon agreed with his father Creon and decided that he wouldn’t marry her “Father, I’m your son…you in your wisdom set my bearings for me—I obey you. No marriage could ever mean more to me than you, whatever good direction you may offer.” • Harmon agrees with his father and no longer wants to marry Antigone. • In the end, Antigone hangs herself because Harmon doesn’t want to be with her and she knew that she would die alone there. Antigone

11. For my modern piece I chose a scene from the movie Dear John. • In the movie, John and Savanna have been dating for a couple of months, John is away in the army and Savanna is home. John and Savanna send letters back and forth to each other to stay connected. • In this scene, John receives a letter from Savanna telling him that she can no longer be in a relationship with him, and that she found someone new and is getting married. • I choose this clip because its shows how their love has died and after receiving this letter, he takes all the letters he has saved from her and burns them all, trying to erase her from his memory. Modern