Jonathan S-D – Story Power

Love can be Reckless

On December 17, 2025

In the song “Reckless” by Ethan Healy, released in his 2017 album, Subluxe, he brings out a summer vibe. His use of slow-paced guitar, upbeat bass sounds of the drums, and a change in tempo make a song that can be slow-paced bring a nice and catchy vibe to it. The lyrics speak of a relationship that is working out great with both parties wanting to be together more as it becomes summer.

Pool days, high tops,

With my blue face, ice pops,

Eyes on summer like cyclops,

Healy’s choice of diction to describe the summer feeling about to start happening. They are beginning to start their summer days of going to the pool for hours and eating ice pops. Healy chooses the word “cyclops” as a way to represent the sun. A cyclops is a Greek creature that is most commonly known for its one eye, so that is represented as the sun.

Yeah we fallin’ off the sidewalk.

Momma wants you home before nightfall

What I Found most intresting about this couplet is the rhyme. When approaching the lines, there seems to be no rhyme because of the ending of the words but, they do rhyme because they are known as slant rhymes. In the song, Healy doesn’t pronounce the ending sound of sidewalk so he is able to rhyme it with night fall.

Is Beloved Justified For Her Attacks?

By Jonathan S-D

On November 24, 2025

In Beloved

In the novel Beloved by Toni Morrison, Morrison uses the being Beloved as a sign of past trauma. Beloved comes out of the water to bring Sethe’s traumatic past back into her life to haunt her again. She is first very calm and peaceful, but later, as their lives go on, she suddenly has a change of attitude and starts to attack people more often, with one of the attacks being on Sethe. Beloved’s attacks on people are huge to the person she attacks because she gets them when they are alone. She first seduces and then attacks Paul D because of her abilities and her control over Sethe. This attack is not justifiable given how she does it.

An attack that Beloved had that might be justifiable could be on Sethe herself because of what she did to her when she was younger. Beloved getting her revenge on Sethe after she killed Beloved by slitting her throat would’ve been justified in her rebirth. Beloved had every right to have a grudge and to attack Sethe with deadly force. She also has serious control over Sethe and should because of how Sethe killed her.

Can People Maintain A Relationship During Difficult Times They Both Go Through?

By Jonathan S-D

On November 24, 2025

In Exit West

In the novel Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, a love story is one of the first things that we are hit with when it comes to Saeed and Nadia. They both start from becoming strangers with a complete 180-degree background when it comes to their family, to later becoming lovers. Nadia managed to finally ease up when meeting Saeed and finally showed appreciation towards him. From moving to different locations through the mysterious doors, along with others.

This begs the question of whether it’s possible to have a relationship at that time. They were both very affectionate towards each other while dealing with the huge war that was going on throughout their lives, always managing to meet back with each other and bonding time and time again, whether that would be meeting with each other or a simple check-up on the phone.

Even throughout all of the struggles that they went through, they ended things off. Which makes me think whether they were first in the relationship to protect each other during the war that was going on, or did they truly feel something for each other before it slowly went south because of all the migration to different countries. There was no known villain between them that caused their relationship to end, but a different set of views. I think this is a case where a relationship cannot work with both parties experiencing the same difficulties. Rather than fixing it, they ended it.

How Can People Change Throughout Tough Situations?

By Jonathan S-D

On November 24, 2025

In Stranger, Trust (film) - Hal Hartley

In the film Trust by Hal Hartley, we are introduced to two very complex characters. Those being Matthew, who seems to have no emotions or any desire to have any emotions, and Maria, who is going through a tough time with pregnancy and her parents. They both are shown with abusive parents, with Matthew’s showing some physical and mental abuse, and Maria’s was mainly mental after the slap that killed her father.

We first see Matthews’ life at the start, with him fixing computers. It is shown that his desires are only for himself, and he doesn’t care for any others. He quickly attacks his coworker for not listening to him, quits his job, and then leaves his house after his father yells at him. Just like Matthews, Maria’s situation is also moving fast, with her broken relationship with the football player, to the death of her dad, to getting sexually assaulted by a cashier.

How did they respond to each other when they both realised they had to change? They both realised that they had to grow up and change their life through their tough situations that they were put in. Matthew first rrealisedthat he was going to take care of Maria, so he got a job fixing televisions to provide an income to provide for Maria and her family. But that changed him. It started to become an average worker who would work throughout the day, go home, watch television, and drink, then repeat the next day. IMaria’sas scenario, she began working in a factory drilling holes in metal for hours a day, went home, then would take care of her mother and be the only person cleaning the house. These changes show how her life changed as she went through the tough situation of returning to her house to get her abortion.

The Researches Are Wrong in “Escape From SpiderHead”

By Jonathan S-D

On November 24, 2025

In Short Stories

In Escape From SpiderHead, I heavily believe that the researchers could’ve done a way better job when testing their drugs. They made a drug that would make people fall in love with each other heavily and eventually stop a war that could happen in the future. But why is the drug only being tested on 5 individuals rather than hundreds, if not more, since it’s going towards stopping a war? How do the researchers know it will work in the war?

I believe that the use of the drug is being used for the wrong purpose. The drug should be used for relationships only. Not for war. When the researchers administered the drug to the individuals, they had made love three times before the drug started to wear off. In war, what would happen after the drug wore off? Are they going to go back to war? Are they going to drug them again? If so, what could happen if they overdosed them with the drug, and would they give it to both sides of the war or only one side? We have to give credit to the scientists for creating the drug, but there are simply too many flaws that could happen with the little testing that they did. The researchers should have tested the drug on more than five people, and what other factors help the drug, and could it be improved.

I think that instead of using the love drug for the use of war. Why not use a small dosage of Darkenfloxx that only drains the enemies of their spirit? The soldiers wouldn’t want to fight in the war. I would suggest they only made a turn against their own leader with the Darkenfloxx. Since the researchers could make drugs of love, why couldn’t they make a drug that makes people scared of violence? What if they Darkenfloxxed one soldier to send a message to others? These are things the researchers could’ve thought of before wanting to use the drug for war.

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Love can be Reckless

Is Beloved Justified For Her Attacks?

Can People Maintain A Relationship During Difficult Times They Both Go Through?

How Can People Change Throughout Tough Situations?

The Researches Are Wrong in “Escape From SpiderHead”

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