Friday, November 03, 2006

Title: Cupidity
Pages: 127-182 (Total: 502)

Laura, still curious about Cupidity as Cupid and the anarchy of the most opposite people getting together, researches the topic of love, from love potions, spells, candles, fortune-telling, and the history of Cupid and Venus. After her double date with Rip, Cupidity, and Cody, Laura meets with a love psychic to finally prove her hypothesis that the arrow Cupidity owns is the one Venus, the god of love, has and that innocent people are falling in love with each other for no real meaningful desire by the shot of Cupidity's magic arrow and bow.

Laura's determination to prove what she believes in is what any one human would do. He would too go mad at the fact that no one else is seeing wrong with the two worlds colliding: the mixture of social class A and B. She earlier stated that it was either of two possibilities, that she was either crazy or the rest of the world was crazy. The character's perception here, even through present day, displays the truth that we, human beings, still live in a world where we believe we should abide where we "belong", within our social class-judging through race, sex, religion, age, looks, wealth, personality, and intellect. Laura's madness about the sudden change of stereotypical regularities, stirs up her world into actions where she is out to solve the mystery. This action of hers further implies Laura’s incapability to accept the changes of reality breaking the traditional mold, that Blacks do marry Whites and that a female has as much right as a male.

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