Looking for My Prince Charming

Prince Charming

Analyzing a Written Argument

The general argument made by Shalmali Pal in her work Looking for My Prince Charming is that it is stressful to find a mate especially in the arranged marriages of India. More specifically Pal suggests that she should be able to have the best of the three men that she dated. She writes, “If I could take elements of my three suitors and fuse them together, maybe I would have the perfect man. I could just relax while genetic engineering caught up with my needs.” p. 545. In this passage, Pal is suggesting that finding the perfect man is too much work and she wishes she could custom make one. In conclusion, it is Pal’s belief that finding a mate is very difficult.

Planning Your Own Argument

In my view, Pal is right because it is hard to find the perfect person. For example, in the Hunger Games Katniss has a hard time finding the perfect man because she is torn between Peta and Gale. She also doesn’t want to love because she doesn’t want to raise kids in such a cruel work as that of Panem. Although Pal might object that Katniss has it easy because she has not one but two eligible men, I maintain that true love is hard to find because even though she has multiple options this still complicates the decision of who she likes. Therefore, I conclude that finding the perfect person is a difficult thing to do.