I consider myself a success if I succeed in finding love and building a family. These are my goals in life and I strive to accomplish them. Being loved, knowing that there is somebody who cares about me, gives me pleasure in life. I feel appreciated; I feel I can rely on this person, and I feel that she needs me.

I believe that everybody deserves to be loved for some reason or another. People are not always beautiful and smart, rich and intelligent. It is easy to look at a person and try to find his shortcomings. What is more important and harder to achieve is to try and find even one little thing and love the person because of it.

Today, not many people believe in love. As a result of this, they are unable to maintain stable relationships or build healthy families. I can see it when I look at Sammy Glick, the main character in the book What Makes Sammy Run by Budd Schulberg. Sammy is a Jewish boy who learns to appreciate money rather that love. Sammy doesn't have any friends and he is not interested in finding somebody to be by his side. He is an individualist and all he needs

People sometimes have to move to a specific place to find love. Quoyle, the main character in The Shipping News, is one example. In Mockingburg, simple Quoyle is deprived of love and sense of sexual feeling. He falls for Petal, a girl he sees at a meeting and gives his heart to her. Unfortunately, he soon realizes that he is one of the many men she has been with. Accustomed to suffering and struggling with the world, Quoyle accepts the pain: "Quoyle believed in silent suffering, did not see that it goaded. He struggled to deaden his feelings, to behave well. A test of love."

Most people fake their emotions as if being in love is wrong. They are afraid that other people might consider them frail and weak. On the contrary, I believe that love makes me strong and helps me get over a variety of problems. I am surprised to see men who are scared to admit that they love their wives. I think it is the phony society that causes people to behave in such a way. "...we make our reputations by how much money we can publicly throw away." Everything is created on the base of image; there is nothing real.

Sammy's only goal in life is making money and self-promoting. He is unable to build a family or have a love relationship: "I wonder what would happen if Sammy used all that energy and imagination to create something - not just to devise ways of reaching the top without creating anything." He lived in a poor family and he disliked his father because he believed in something more than money and material possessions. As a result, it is impossible for Sammy to maintain a family and to care about his wife and children. He is not accustomed to that because the only person he cares about is himself.

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Stories about family and love can also be found in The Moral Compass. It is a book that takes its readers on journey of a lifetime. It teaches people love and respect toward their family. In the story "The Lion's Hair" it is the woman's det

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