“Some texts take us to different times and places. However these texts often touch on issues that are significant for all humanity.”
Examine this statement by referring to one or two texts which are set in another time or place.
While ‘The Ballad of the Sad Café’ may have not been written in Australia during the year 2002. And while we have no idea of the exact location even country or time where this tale of unrequited love took place, it is clear to see that the very same issues we face before us in this new millenium, were also apparent in the time of Miss Amelia and her amazing café. Love being the main, along with betrayal and a sense of belonging are three such issues that when combined create the story which is indeed a ballad of a sad café.
When it comes to ‘The ballad of the Sad café’ love is definitely the main issue. It is what the entire story is based around. If it wasn’t for love the café would have never come into existence and if it wasn’t for love the café would have never ended in the awful way it did either. For it was the love that Miss Amelia had for Cousin Lymon that brought the café alive. She would have done anything for him it seemed, and if he wanted to be the centre of at

These are the three types of love that are portrayed in ‘The Ballad of the Sad Café’. The love of a parent, the love of a sweetheart and the love of a sibling or friend. Each of these forms of ‘love’ are shown very strongly in this novel, and much can be learnt from the way each of the character show their feeling of love.

Betrayal, it happens all the time, and while most of us would not like to admit it, we have each been the betrayer or the betrayed during atleast some point in our life. It might not have been anything too big that we were forced to turn our back on or go against a friend for, but it is something that can break apart many relationships, and while at the time it may seem like the right thing to do, it doesn’t always turn out that way in the end.

Ever since the beginning of time love has been in existence. And while it might not always be a romantic form of love, this feeling everybody holds within them will never die and will stay with us till the end of time.

This was not the only act of betrayal that occurred in ‘The Ballad of the Sad Café’ though. Meanwhile Miss Amelia may have got what she deserved as a past of betrayal brought back bad consequences in the years that came. A man, who would have given her the stars if it were possible, once loved her. She was the light of his life and while she existed not a single other thought consumed his mind apart from her being. He changed everything he was so that he would be accepted by her, and eventually he was. But in the following ten days, she ripped his heart from his chest, and left him an unruly man. Miss Amelia abused the love Marvin Macy held for her, and when he thought he had the woman of his dreams, she quickly turned his life into a nightmare and betrayed him by stealing