Divided By Diane Ackerman Analysis

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“Love. What a small word we use for an idea so immense and powerful it was altered the flow of history, calmed monsters, kindled works of art, mad…” Stated by Diane Ackerman, which means that love is the reason for a lot of things that have occurred. An aspect of love is confusion because chaos creates different emotions such as happiness, hate, and jealousy. Love brings happiness because someone might have a connection with another person and not know they enjoy there company. Love also makes a human feel hate towards another living person or thing, for example someone may not like a certain place, food, animal, or just a person that is annoying. Another example of love is jealousy, jealousy makes someone feel scared of losing someone. For example, love brings happiness because someone might have a connection with another person and not know they love them int’ll they notice how they enjoy there company. The author stated “If you took a woman from ancient Egypt and put her in an automobile factory in Detroit, she would be understandably disoriented. Everything would be new, especially her ability to stroke the wall and make …show more content…
According to the article, “Yes, lovers are most often reduced to comparatives and quantities.”Do you love me more than her?” we ask “Will you love me less if I don’t do what you say?” We are afraid to face love head-on.” This basically means that love makes a person feel like they’re losing somebody that they love to another person. On page 166 it states that “We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred.” This proves that jealousy is a big emotion that toys with your mind that makes you more scared than cruelty, violence, and hatred. Jealousy is another feeling that love can come and makes someone of losing