Love and Death

The reading we were required to read in chapter three talked about theme. What is theme? Throughout the next couple of pages it talked about the different kinds of theme and how it could be used in certain ways. The theme of our literature class so far is love and death. Everything we have read is about love and death.
The folk song, “Frankie and Johnny” were about lovers who ended up killing the other over jealousy. “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” was about the complexities of love and how it can even result to death. “Happy Endings” talks about that even if everyone were to take a different path, love and death will still be an absolute in our lifetime. “What They Carried” is what love can do at a time of war, how desirable and destructible it can be sometimes even leading to death.
I know that it isn’t coincidence that the theme of all of these stories is love and death. I know that there’s an answer from reading all of these stories. The answer is this... Everyone in their lifetime is going to experience love, whether it’s returned or not. Somewhere on this crazy journey that we call life, we are going to know what it feels like to love. Some are going to do crazy things for it, others will give up more than they should for it, others will never of known a better feeling and many will be left broken hearted. However, at one point in everyone’s life, Love is going to be the most amazing thing. Even though it will hurt at times, it’s still “better to of loved than to never of loved at all.” That’s the theme I picked up on from reading all of these stories, the importance of love. For love is the foundation on which we build our lives around.