My work I choose to type about was “The Love Of My Life” by T.C. Boyle. I choose this reading due to the strong imagery of how just one move can ruin your life. The two passages I have chosen are when T.C. Boyle writes that China “... willl never , never be like those breeders that bring their puffed-up squalling little red-faced babies to class … Breeders overpopulating an overpopulated world and ruining their own lives in the process.” , and the other quote from page 83 , where it states “ He would be there for her no matter what , but why did she have to be so stupid?”. I think these quotes foreshadow the eventual turning points of the story , multiple climaxes if you will , and also underline and bring forth the drastic change of Jeremy’s
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I believe it shows in this story by T.C. Boyle in the fact that these couples relationship was destroyed by the baby they had murdered. This led them to build an illusion of past love , and not continuing to build a deep , meaningful relationship. At the end China reminisces about their relationship in the past , and how everything in life was so vivid. This ties into another text , “River Of Names” by Dorothy Allison. In the second to last paragraph of the story , she wrote that “ All the things I just could not tell her , the shame , the self-hatred,the fear; all of that hangs between us now - a wall that cannot tear down”. Her relationship is one of love and hate , and she is in what is supposed to be the pure relationship of love , but also hates her as well. An illusion to the lovers partner was common in most of the writings in this unit. In “We Wear The Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar , he even mentions how “This debt we pay with Human guile ; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile , and mouth with myriad subtleties”. This shows the illusion that is slaves showering their masters an illusion of themselves to avoid trouble. The last writing , “ The Lost DImension in Religion” talks about the loss of depth , and the horizontal progress of
I believe it shows in this story by T.C. Boyle in the fact that these couples relationship was destroyed by the baby they had murdered. This led them to build an illusion of past love , and not continuing to build a deep , meaningful relationship. At the end China reminisces about their relationship in the past , and how everything in life was so vivid. This ties into another text , “River Of Names” by Dorothy Allison. In the second to last paragraph of the story , she wrote that “ All the things I just could not tell her , the shame , the self-hatred,the fear; all of that hangs between us now - a wall that cannot tear down”. Her relationship is one of love and hate , and she is in what is supposed to be the pure relationship of love , but also hates her as well. An illusion to the lovers partner was common in most of the writings in this unit. In “We Wear The Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar , he even mentions how “This debt we pay with Human guile ; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile , and mouth with myriad subtleties”. This shows the illusion that is slaves showering their masters an illusion of themselves to avoid trouble. The last writing , “ The Lost DImension in Religion” talks about the loss of depth , and the horizontal progress of