Lost Faith in Love: a response to Dianne Warren's novel, "A Reckless Moon"
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 03:22:13
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 4 pages (1053 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 4 pages (1053 words)
For many of the characters in Dianne Warren's "A Reckless Moon", love did once exist. It existed during their height of beauty and youth. As these traits inevitably deteriorated, so did their confidence in everlasting passion. The main characters throughout Warren's stories are dynamic and complex, sharing one similarity: their lives, filled with voids, drive their longing for absent connections. The common sought-after connection is of romance. Remaining unfulfilled, the characters' despair creates the sad …
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…opinion of sexual relations: "all that groping that goes on in cars... and the hallway at school is disgusting" (90). Yet, ironically, her opinion ingeniously incorporates a maturity beyond any other character in the book: "She and Moe are joined in the mind and spirit, they're not slaves to their bodies" (90); they share an undeniable connection that cannot be surpassed. Perhaps Carmen and Moe are experiencing true love, juxtaposed to the "mature" adults who are not.
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