Blog Fourteen

The story "Oh Darling" was written by Anton Chevok. The main character, Olga, easily fell in love. She first fell in love with her father, which I think is weird. She then falls in love with a man, but their love was always suppressed. After he died, she had an affair with another shop keeper. He eventually was reunited with his wife and son and she asks for them to move back in with her. They move back in and she falls in love with his young son. I think that this was very twisted and that Olga fell in love too easily. The little boy felt like her love was too much for him (Chevok).

Thoeau had an interesting view on love. In chapter four of Walden, he wrote " . There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hands. I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sing around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time" (Thoreau). I think that Thoreau fell in love easily as well. He wrote about how he fell in love twice. I think that Thoreau fell in love with objects and ideas, not just people like Olga. They are different in that way.

Emerson helped out during the war as a nurse. He helped all the men and got them back to good health. With the harsh conditions and the horrible sights, he must have being a very loving man. He would have to look deep in his heart to put others first and help everyone. I think that Emerson probably fell in love easily as well. In Self Reliance, Emerson wrote a lot about love. He wrote that ""What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love" (Emerson). I think that he valued love, as did Thoreau. Olga seemed to throw it around a little more in a childish way while Emerson and Thoreau seemed to take it more seriously and value it a little more.

Thoreau. "Walden - Chapter 4." The Thoreau Reader. Web. 29 Feb. 2012. .

Emerson. "Self-Reliance." Ralph Waldo Emerson Texts. Web. 29 Feb. 2012. .