PHOTO ESSAY: The Book of Hearts
Left:
The black heart with the white shows how there can be good in bad, while the white heart with the gun shows that you can love someone but treat them badly (as Jimmy has to his wife.)
Right:
The blue hand represents Linda, who is trying to love him, but letting him go, while the skeletal hand is Jimmy's as he is dead but still loves his wife.
Left:
All lives are connected. When Jimmy is betrayed by Abbad, he takes it on himself to betray his wife.
Right:
Even in a world of black and white, there are many different patterns and shades of feelings, which can change depending on your point of view.
PART TWO: Relating to the PowerPoint
Linda, Jimmy's wife, after witnessing his little sexcapade with Helda, immediately goes home and throws out his stuff. She cannot focus on the happy moments when the betrayal lingers in her mindShe only thinks about the "I" because he betrayed her and he hurt her. The incident also taints all the other memories of them together, even the nice ones like their marriage and love causing her to remove all parts of it. . Furthermore, she even goes as far as threatening to kill Jimmy, in an attempt to get revenge on him, without realizing that Jimmy wants to die. Blinded by anger, she never stops to think about why Jimmy betrayed her and try to understand his side. She doesn't realize that Jimmy is hurting from Abbad's betrayal, which leads to him betraying his wife.
PART THREE: Jason and Medea
Medea was a devotee of the goddess Hecate, and one of the great sorceresses of the ancient world. She was the daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis, and the granddaughter of Helios, the sun god.
King Aeetes' most valuable possession was a golden ram's fleece. When Jason and the crew of the Argo arrived at Colchis seeking the Golden Fleece, Aeetes was unwilling to relinquish it and set Jason a series of seemingly impossible tasks as the price of obtaining it. Medea fell in love with Jason and agreed to use her magic to help him, in return for Jason's promise to marry her.
Jason fled in the Argo after obtaining the golden fleece, taking Medea and her younger brother, Absyrtis, with him. King Aeetes pursued them. In order to delay the pursuit, Medea killed her brother and cut his body into pieces, scattering the parts behind the ship. The pursuers had to stop and collect Absyrtis' dismembered body in order to give it proper burial, and so Jason, Medea and the Argonauts escaped.
After the Argo returned safely to Iolcus, Jason's home, Medea continued using her sorcery. She restored the youth of Jason's aged father, Aeson, by cutting his throat and filling his body with a magical potion. She then offered to do the same for Pelias the king of Iolcus who had usurped Aeson's throne. She tricked Pelias' daughters into killing him, but left the corpse without any youth-restoring potion.
After the murder of Pelias, Jason and Medea had to flee Iolcus; they settled next in Corinth. There Medea bore Jason two children before Jason forsook her in order to marry the daughter of Creon, the king of Corinth. Medea got revenge for Jason's desertion by killing the new bride with a poisoned robe and crown which burned the flesh from her body; King Creon died as well when he tried to embrace his dying daughter. Medea fled Corinth in a chariot, drawn by winged dragons, to isolate herself.
EXPLANATION:
The story of Medea is one of betrayal. It teaches us that "bad" causes more "bad", in a domino effect. The way Abbad betrays Jimmy, then he betrays his wife mirrors that betrayal just as how Jason betrays Medea, which leads to her betraying an array of people. Eventually both are unable to forgive themselves, leading to one isolating herself, and the other killing himself. These stories both show that people who do "bad" things are not all bad, but actually affected by happenstances in their lives which leads to them lashing out and causing more hurt.
