¶ … murkiness of love tenderness can lead?" "How many times we will kill for love." "The rare thing herself felt in her breast a warmth that might be called love. She loved that sallow explorer. If she could have talked and had told him that she loved him, he would have been puffed up with vanity." All these settings represent different definition of "love." The Smallest Woman in the World provides a poetic, at times poignant, perspective of love. Looking closely at the first quotation where the lady felt such perverse tenderness for the smallest of the African women claiming that an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure. She was upset all day, almost as if she were missing something. Here, the woman seemed to have been concerned about the vulnerability of the Little Flower. Her words points at the need for companionship for the Little Flower, and protection as a result of it. The second quotation of love refers to love as a great need that is a source of orphans who hid a dead body from the nun so as to pay with it. The other love quotation is in reference to the feeling the Little Flower had for the explorer. This love was due to the fact that he did not eat her as the Bantu tribes would do in such an instance. Instead he was tender with her and besides she marveled at this type of person she had never seen, his boots, his skin color. This is love manifested in what she admiration.
Question 5

Existentialist perception of life revolves around the fact that individual experiences form the basis of philosophical thinking and that moral and scientific thinking do not exclusively point at human existence, but "authenticity," is critical in the pursuit of understanding human existence. Therefore in Lispector's…