Week 6 Post B

For this week I decided to write about an event that has always happened to me but was never brought to my at attention until I read A Thousand Splendid Suns. The two main characters, who are in love, are watching a romantic movie together.

"On the screen, Alyona and her new husband locked lips. Watching the kiss, Laila felt strangely conspicuous all at once. She became intensely aware of her heart thumping, of the blood thudding in her ears, of the shape of Tariq beside her, tightening up, becoming still."(141)

I think that this has happened to almost everybody at one point in their life or another. Personally, this has happened to me when watching movies with my friends. Everybody knows that there has to be at least one romantic scene in a movie and when it finally comes, everybody is too afraid to make even the slightest movements. Even being the person that I am, jokes never seem appropriate during a make out scene in a movie.