Preview

Teenage Marriages Are Likely to End Unhappily

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
813 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Teenage Marriages Are Likely to End Unhappily
Hot wax, orange flames, pure white candles burning; foggy grey smoke as the wind repeatedly blew each one out. Sparkly rainbow glares from the magnificently detailed designs of sequence on her wedding dress, targeted the retinas of each guest. His hair combed back with a perfect waive affect as he bent down to kiss his bride. Wings fluttered, everyone smiled and was in awe, as the doves were released and flew into the clouds. The sun glistened over the venue, as rice was tossed above the bride and groom. They made their exit, leaving a great ambience of love in the air. Marriage is a beautiful thing. “Why God?”, “Why here in this small backyard?” My grandmother continuously muttered, snapping me back into reality. Sweat dripping down my face, into my eye as if I was crying. I took out a small travel sized tissue to fry my eyes. As my vision became clear I remember looking up, and in this small crowded backyard my aunt Guadalupe the bride and her groom, Roberto stood before a cheap Judge who only charged $25. Then in my head I thought to myself, while the judge rambled on about commitment and other nonsense that, “Teenage marriages are likely to end unhappily”. My aunt Guadalupe at 15 years of age was now married to her also young husband and with a child. She expressed this passionate and strong love for her husband, that she could never imagine losing. She explained to me one day that he was more of a man to her than her absent father was to her mother. Not having her father in her life as a child, made her appreciate and unconditionally care for her husband. Guadalupe also loved and cared for her toddler Miguel; who soon became ill. After nights alone in the house, as their child was in the hospital, they lay there embracing each other in bed. Comforting one another, night after night with their immaturity, the only way they knew to do this was with lust. Sweat beads rolled down their backs, heat filled the room, and an odd scent lingered in the air, as they

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    The marriage was not her idea; she is beyond thinking her way out of her situation. But her husband has suggested this marriage, and now it is happening. Like a chant, she repeats and remembers. “Proposal. Promises.”…

    • 433 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    As the music changed, a small boy of seven years old came hurried down the aisle holding a lighter. He walked right past us to the small table and lit the two lower candles. The only thing on his mind was getting his job done without burning down the house with his lighter. Following directly after him was the procession of bridesmaids. The first bridesmaid walked down the aisle, she was a friend of the bride. Right after her followed the second bridesmaid, her niece. Two more sisters followed the bridesmaid path and then, last but not least, the Maid of Honor made her way down the aisle. As the bride’s best friend finished her walk there came another small child. The ever popular flower girl of only three years old stumbled down the aisle…

    • 188 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Colin wanted to take some pictures of the llamas, so we stayed there for a while. Business was not too busy that day since it was a school day. There were two families walking about the zoo, and I was thrilled to find that one of them was interracial. The mother was a white woman and the father looked Middle Eastern. One of their three kids who was playing near where we stood had blue eyes and curly black hair. I told Colin he was the cutest kid I’d seen that day, and that was by no mean an understatement. This family was an example of exogamous marriage – a marriage in which the partners belongs to different social groups, or, in this case, ethnic groups. Exogamous partnership was not an uncommon phenomenon nowadays, especially not in the LA area, but seeing this couple here made me feel like I’ve hit the jackpot. When Colin was satisfied with his pictures, he said that he’d take me somewhere he knew I would love. So we heading out of the train station. As we walked past Hidden House Coffee, I saw a couple who were speaking Chinese, and I had a temptation to run over and hug them but of course I restrained myself. We then walked into an antique shop called The Old Barn and I immediately fell in love. The right word to describe this place would be an “antique outlet” because it was huge. The place was owned by exceptionally nice people with very strong Southern accent. After we were done shopping and I…

    • 1497 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Right Of Way Analysis

    • 846 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Imagine flying across the world for a wedding where once a first love who broke your heart was going to be. A young girl by the name of Peyton is going to her Uncle's wedding in Florida. She met a boy named Jace there last year and fell completely head over heels for him. A week before the wedding she found out he was going to be there also. She had a few doubts about not going to the wedding because of him, but her mother made her go because it was family. The Puritans would obliterate the book, right of way due to their inappropriate clothing, sinful lives and lack of family values.…

    • 846 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Cinderella Summary

    • 313 Words
    • 1 Page

    Orenstein closes the essay by bringing in the true history of the wedding. Weddings weren’t evoked by undying lust and erotic love for a partner, but rather they were established by the parents of the two families often times to settle disagreements or to spread the wealth by joining themselves…

    • 313 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Marrying Absurd Analysis

    • 857 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Whether wedding day is the highlight of one’s life or the beginning of the end, the idea that marriage is a long, cruel process that tests the integrity of a relationship is mainstream. The choosing of locations, extensive dress shopping, broad guest list, and costly gift registry are just some traditions in planning the big night. In Joan Didion’s “Marrying Absurd,” she suggests that marrying in Las Vegas diminishes the traditions of marriage, so therefore the union will not be long-lasting. Didion proposes this through diction, setting, and enumeration.…

    • 857 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Courtship LAURA

    • 399 Words
    • 1 Page

    Oh, my God! That worries me so. Suppose I think I’m in love with a man and I marry him and it turns out I’m not in love with him. What does being in love mean? I wish I didn’t think so much. I wish to heaven I didn’t. Everything bad that happens to a girl I begin to worry it will happen to me. All night I’ve been worrying. Part of the time I’ve been worrying that I’d end an old maid like Aunt Sarah, and part of the time I worry that I’ll fall in love with someone like Syd and defy Papa and run off with him and then realize I made a mistake and part of the time I worry… that what happened to Sibyl Thomas will happen to me and.. .(A pause) Could what happened to Sibyl Thomas ever happen to you? I don’t mean the dying part. I know we all have to die. I mean the other part - having a baby before she was married. How do you think it happened to her? Do you think he loved her? Do you think it was the only time she did? You know… (A pause.) Old, common, Anna Landry said in the girls’ room at school, she did it whenever she wanted to, with whomever she wanted to and nothing ever happened to her. And if it did she would get rid of it. How do women do that? I don’t trust Anna Landry and I don’t know who else to ask. Can you imagine the expression on Mama’s face, or Aunt Lucy’s or Mrs. Cookenboo’s if I asked them something like that? (A pause.) Anyway, even if I knew I would be afraid to do something like that before I got married for fear God would strike me dead. (A pause.) Aunt Sarah said that Sibyl’s baby dying was God’s punishment of her sin. Aunt Lucy said if…

    • 399 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    After watching the movie The Birdcage, starring Robin Williams, there was a direct correlation and contradiction between the book White Weddings,, by Chrys Ingraham and the movie. Although every system of inequality (racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism and ageism), are all present in the movie, as well as the book, the movie agrees and disagrees with many aspects of Chrys Ingraham's belief system about the "ideal" wedding and its components.…

    • 1170 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Mexico Personal Narrative

    • 1198 Words
    • 5 Pages

    I was nervous nonetheless; Palms sweaty, heart racing, and tear-filled eyes was how I met them. As soon as the sun set the band started playing and the people poured in. The whole neighborhood invited themselves and soon enough I was having trouble distinguishing between who was and wasn’t my family. Warmth filled the air with all the stories being told, all the long awaited laughs caressed our ears, and the love that poured out of everyone was enough to last a lifetime. My uncles if they weren’t embarrassing themselves from the lack of dancing skills they had, I could hear them singing their sorrows in tune with the mariachi band in the background. My Aunts filled me in with the town gossip of the last fourteen years, making sure not to leave any secrets out. Smiles painted across our faces, my cousins and I took to the dance floor, skipping around until our feet bore blisters and sweat drenched our clothes. My grandparents told me stories from when they were younger. They shared with me the story of how, despite disagreements from each other’s family, they fell in love and stayed together till this day. My grandfather recalled to me how he had tried numerous times to woo my grandmother with sunflowers just so she would let him walk her home. “She rejected the roses so I brought her the Sun.”, he…

    • 1198 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Love has always been a cause for pain and unhappiness in the world and how an individual handles its intricacy can determine whether we are fortunate enough to be graced by it. Ethan’s perfunctory decision in marriage is one we often see today. People marry early and young in their infatuations or for simplicity’s sake. When a major decision is taken lightly, such as marriage, it will have drastic effects for the rest of an individual’s life. In the time at which Ethan Frome takes place, divorce was simply not an option for couples. If the pair did not enjoy each other’s presence they would just bear it throughout life, such was the case with Ethan and Zenobia. Even if the two despised each other, they would not divorce and would live their lives miserably. Today marriage is undervalued and divorce is common and socially acceptable. In fact it is so common that according to a study done by Avvo, a legal advice and attorney company, in 2010 the divorce rate was nearly…

    • 1549 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    (The bride walks down the aisle towards her husband. The distance from the entrance of the church to the altar seems abnormally long. A cold drop of sweat rushes down along her spine. The flowers she is holding are visibly shaking as she slowly passes by the smiling onlookers. Her heartbeat is louder than her footsteps. She tries to breathe through her mouth to supply the now seemingly inadequate oxygen to her body. It is clear she is scared. Her mother, Mrs. Stones, realizes this and comes forth to meet her, holds her hand and squeezes it gently. Finally they arrive at the altar and her mother hands her over to her husband)…

    • 503 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    I was shocked that there were a lot of similarities between the marriage presented and traditional Catholic marriage. There were many situations that were similar like the candle ceremony, the throwing of the shoe, which could be compared to throwing a bouquet, and getting the father’s blessing. I found this significant because it proved to me that even though Colombia is on another continent, their traditions are similar to American traditions in many ways. I also thought what made the presentation interesting was the Riya and Brian got married, and both played the characters of the bride and groom perfectly. Overall, I think this presentation will affect my reading of the novel because it has given me insight on what Colombian’s value in terms of family and…

    • 983 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Monsoon Wedding

    • 628 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Marriage is an institution that has spanned time. In India it is one of their many traditions. It has changed lives for the better and for the worse. I will be looking at two different art forms that display marriage in two different sights. One will be Monsoon Wedding, a Mira Nair film, which portrays marriage, specifically arranged marriage, in a way that looks on the tradition not as a thing of the past but a foundation for a good and happy family. In the film, though there are many doubts and question marks on whether the marriage arranged by Aditi’s parents would work, if she would end her affair, or if Hermont would take her back, there is still a since that the tradition that lies in arranged marriage will work out in the end. The other will be the short story called “Giribala,” by Mahasweta Devi. This story takes a different look at the establishment of arranged marriage. Devi portrays a viewpoint of a young girl who has to go through tremendous heartache and hard times as a result of her arranged marriage and her dedication to the marriage set up by her parents. It shows the flaws in the traditional arranged marriage and how an innocent person, though there will may be strong, is nearly broken by a liar who tricked her father in to marring her away to him. These two works take two different looks at arranged marriage, taking both the pros and cons of this Indian tradition.…

    • 628 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Our Family Wedding

    • 589 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Secondly, those two engaged young people mentioned that they would like to have a simple wedding when two families discussed how to plan their wedding. However, two families all had their own mind for the wedding which caused a controversy between the two sides. The bride’s family wanted to have a traditional Mexican wedding and the groom’s family wanted to have an African descent wedding. In addition, the cost of the wedding was another big issue during their planning process because of the different customs and traditions. Finally, the young couple made a concession for their wedding (our marriage, their wedding). Their parents agreed to share the cost of the wedding.…

    • 589 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Tomorrow I get married. You looked at yourself in the mirror, wearing your veil and holding your bouquet. You were still wearing your clothes from earlier that day which made for a strange combination with the fine lace draped on your hair and the calla lilies in your hands. It was a sight to take in and, somehow, made it seem very real and frightening.…

    • 1303 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays

Related Topics