The Love Of My Life Analysis

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“The Love of My Life,” by T. Coraghessan Boyle tells the story of a couple in college who end up having a baby that they throw away out of fear (Boyle, 563). This story starts with how in love China and Jeremy were which soon takes a turn for the worst. China and Jeremy are madly in love but as they attend separate colleges they become distant, especially when China becomes pregnant (Boyle, 563). Jeremy in a panic does what a mostly unresponsive China requests of him, get rid of “it”(Boyle, 563). Learning of the horrifying crime that Jeremy and China committed leaves readers wondering one thing. What made these young adults think what they did was reasonable? Although there are no true answers one can provide, there are multiple reasons: influential hold of the media, expectations of society, and the internal conflict of right and wrong.
Through research there are characters just like China and Jeremy. For example, Anakin Skywalker from the Star Wars series, is a top notch candidate to compare to China while
The media is and always has been an issue when it comes to an individual’s moral compass. Something earlier in “The Love of My Life,” sets this warning sign that something is not right and foreshadowing the terror filled future for China and Jeremy. Earlier in the story, the couple were watching a scary movie, a slasher film, where the killer claims ,”Teens have sex and pay for it in body parts” (Boyle, 557). Now from that quote, it basically lays out the future because China and Jeremy do have sex and that resulted in the beginning of this nightmarish story (Boyle, 557). It turns out that serial killer in that movie were right as well about the body parts too, China had her baby (Boyle, 562-563). The baby was a part of China that whole nine months and so in the end she did pay in body

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