The Love Of My Life By Tc Boyle

In T. Coraghessan Boyle’s story “The Love of My Life,” it centers around the teenage relationship of Jeremy and China who claim to be in love with one another and nothing else matters to them.  Their relationship; however, is centered around what a relationship is like in movies and based of the physical attraction to each other as well as being naive to what real love is as this is their first real relationship with a significant other.  The relationship between the two is great until they encounter their first real obstacle in the relationship when China becomes pregnant.  The egocentric nature of both characters takes over and there begins to be cracks within the relationship. Now they face the reality of becoming parents and they blame

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In T. Coraghessan Boyle’s story “The Love of My Life,” it centers around the teenage relationship of Jeremy and China who claim to be in love with each other.  Their relationship; however, is centered around what a relationship is like in movies and based off of physical attraction to each other as well as being naive to what real love is.  The relationship between the two is great until they encounter their first real obstacle in the relationship when China becomes pregnant.  The egocentric nature of both characters takes over and there begins to be cracks within the relationship. Now they face the reality of becoming parents and they blame each other for the mistake instead of accepting their role in the situation.  The love between the two

Finding the Love of Your Life was written by Neil Clark Warren, PH.D., and in this book he explains his ten basic principles of finding the right mate to spend your life with. He teaches people how to understand the two different types of love: passionate love and companionate love. He states that many do not get past the passionate love portion which is why many people go from relationship to relationship when the passion wears off.

In the story “On the Oxcart” Xiao Hong has a young girl recount a conversation she heard while on the way to town. The two other people in the cart with her were Sister Wuyun and the carter; all the while the girl pretended to sleep. Sister Wuyun was telling the story of the moment they told her her husband was coming back from war because he became a deserter. She went to the river wharf with her baby to greet him before he received his punishment and a very peculiar and random event happened. While she was waiting for the ship to arrive, Sister Wuyun had thoughts about leaving her baby behind and commit suicide. She explained how at that moment she “felt like putting Little Baldy down on the riverbank and jumping straight to the bottom [of the river]. Just leave that one little life behind; as soon as he started crying, someone would surely come and take him away” (222). To do so she had to make him sleep , but looking at the baby reminded her of her husband who had to arrive at any moment. The second Sister Wuyun set her baby down a “sailing boat came around the riverbed, and when [she] heard

Thirdly, the story also proposes the demonstration of fragility of Jeremy and China’s love. After Jeremy knows that China is pregnant, things have taken a bad turn as “they wrangled and fought and debated, and it was no pleasure [for Jeremy] to see her” (Boyle 141). He also starts debasing her image by thinking that “[s]he was pigheaded, stubborn, irrational” (Boyle 141). After they get carried out of the courthouse, “the last thing he said to her… [was] nothing that had... even the hint of love: ‘you told me to get rid of it’ (Boyle 149). Jeremy’s reactions to China being pregnant are nothing to be expected from a couple who seems to love each other a lot. The arguments between them and Jeremy’s unhappiness when seeing her have shown that their love is now replaced with hatred. Jeremy’s personality also