A_Son_and_Daughter’S_Take_on_Marriage

A Son and Daughter’s Take On Marriage In “Marriage Is a Private Affair” and “Love Must Not Be Forgotten” a son and a daughter are being pressured into getting married. The son in the story, “Marriage Is a Private Affair” is being pressured into marrying someone that his father picked out for him to marry. The daughter in the story, “Love Must Not Be Forgotten” is being pushed to get married, but is afraid that her heart will be broken. The son and daughter have similar problems but also have different issues with their culture. In the stories you can compare the situation of their parents both choosing who they wanted their kids to marry. Both children have issues and felt pressured by their parents about the choosing of who they were going to marry. Another thing you can compare in this story is the relationships with their parents. The son and daughter tried and wanted to be close to their parents but were not able to have that good of a connection with them because their parents were not willing to cooperate. I felt like in these stories that the parents were hardheaded when the topic of their kids marriage was brought up. They should have listened to what the kids wanted and tried to make it work. Also you can compare that the two kids have the same point of view on the ideas of love. Both wanted to fall in love with someone that they met, not who their parents picked out for them. They wanted to really have a good understanding what love was. You can contrast in these stories on the outcomes of what the two decided to do. The son in the story, “Marriage is a Private Affair” ended up marrying the woman he fell in love with and not the woman his parents arranged for him to marry. And the daughter in “Love Must Not Be Forgotten” ended up not getting married at all. Also you could contrast their ideas on marriage. The daughter was very nervous about the idea of marriage and the son was determined to marry the woman he would actually fall in love with, not someone his parents arranged for him to marry. The people they were suppose to marry is another thing you could contrast. The kids in the stories were both set up with an arrange marriage and both walked away from their arranged marriages. In the end, Nnaemeka, the son in the story “Marriage Is a Private Affair” marries the woman he really loves and the daughter in the story “Love Must Not Be Forgotten” decides to not get married. You can conclude from the stories, “Marriage Is a Private Affair” and “Love Must Not Be Forgotten” that the two kids were both unhappy and felt pressure about their arranged marriage. In the end the son married another woman and the daughter ended up marrying no one. The parents put extra pressure on their kids when they should have helped them with their decisions.