A Complicated Kindness Poem Analysis
It can be said that struggles bring people together and, at the same time, break them apart. When two people realize their life situations are quite similar are controlled by fundamentalism, they tend to stay close to one another for comfort and understanding, even though they share nothing in interest. However one will eventually attempt a change, to try and manipulate their circumstances for the better or to leave. The other is inevitably left alone and desolate. Although a complicated kindness entwines many such consequences from social issues and other obstacles deep inside its storylines, it reveals its dominant theme in the conclusion: that love endures in the end. Love will make hardships tolerable, will bind people together in spirit if not in a physical sense, and will brighten the optimism in the heart.
Pain can be a deep scrape in the knee on the gravel, or a growing black rose at the base of the heart. In a sense, however, they differ by a lifetime; a wound eventually closes and smoothes out, whereas as time goes on, the depression tears the body from inside out, darkening the senses, …show more content…
Where one is lost within the world, one can always close the eyes and listen to the soft encouragements of one's family. Where one is excommunicated, and left behind in the fundamentalist town, paradoxically, one can finally be free " I would have never left [Ray] and that if I were ever to get out of that town, he would have to leave first." A fact: Love endures, and surpasses life. And due to an inevitable twist of events and changing circumstances, Nomi is finally able to mature and give this story a hopeful ending note, not destroying the black, thorny rose in her heart, but transform it into a flourishing rose made out of silken
Pain can be a deep scrape in the knee on the gravel, or a growing black rose at the base of the heart. In a sense, however, they differ by a lifetime; a wound eventually closes and smoothes out, whereas as time goes on, the depression tears the body from inside out, darkening the senses, …show more content…
Where one is lost within the world, one can always close the eyes and listen to the soft encouragements of one's family. Where one is excommunicated, and left behind in the fundamentalist town, paradoxically, one can finally be free " I would have never left [Ray] and that if I were ever to get out of that town, he would have to leave first." A fact: Love endures, and surpasses life. And due to an inevitable twist of events and changing circumstances, Nomi is finally able to mature and give this story a hopeful ending note, not destroying the black, thorny rose in her heart, but transform it into a flourishing rose made out of silken