The Love of My Life
Mohammed Abujarad
The love of my life
Love is one of the most powerful words. We always hear that love can achieve the impossible. However, despite the many positive aspects of love, it also has a darker side to tithe Literature is filled with examples of how love often causes tragedies. Boyle’s short story “The Love of My Life” is an example of how a love story does not always have a happy ending. Jeremy and China, the two main characters of the story, are deeply in love. Although sexually active, they are adamant that they will never bring an unwanted child into the world and hinder the bright future they both have ahead of them. However, as fate would have it, China becomes pregnant after an unprotected sexual encounter. The latter decides to bring her pregnancy to term despite her lover’s strong objections. However, after giving birth, she asks Jeremy to dispose of the baby, which he does without a second thought. Slowly, their relationship begins to crumble, which ultimately leads to the final blow: China’s betrayal of Jeremy. A psychoanalytic criticism of this text offers a unique understanding of it because it demonstrates how an idea deeply rooted in the subconscious can be used to justify even the most heinous crime – infanticide.
The first thing there are interior facets that cue many effects that improvement of the story for example feminist, and psychoanalytic criticism. All of the aspects take to go some place in the story and originate to obstruct to confound the life of the protagonists. Jeremy and China were so positive that they would never make the same mistake as other teenagers. That have a baby when they are in high school, and they always think about that and how the society will look about them, and also they will have to afford the baby if she gets pregnant. Jeremy and China was the most successful student in high school. Both of them always say this will never happen because we are not like other teenagers. Also they Bothe have a very naïve idea of what love is, i.e. kissing whenever they saw each other, not bringing rod, etc. the idea of sacrifice is mentioned, where ultimately how love is measured. Once the sacrifice is required, their relationship deteriorates showing how their love was never as high as they imagined it to do. However, in the end the love becomes nothing when theta happens.
The second, China the leading eccentric. There is an anxiety person because Chin has to contract thru her feelings and excitements afterward she knows that she is pregnant. Jeremy, who strapped to get rid of the baby, In facts are sited in the story, such us, her authority that her goals will not happen if she get the baby and she cant do what she want, also she want to live her live like normal age that don’t have to thing about family in this age when she is young. Indeed, in this story what she was thinking about is very psychoanalytic matter where the difference between genders is concomitant, her boyfriend Jeremy push her to have the thought his sure that will never happen. China says, “I will never, never be like those breeders that bring their puffed-up squalling little red-faced babies to class” (pg567) which explains why she asks Jeremy to get rid of the baby once she delivers it. That is was mean she don’t want to feel guilty and she was thinking what the people or the society will speck about her, also how she was good and she believe that this not good to have baby this age.
The psychoanalytic criticism in this story considerate China and Jeremy thinking. This mean remorseful wish affects the actions and the psychoanalytic condition of the main characters. China and Jeremy integrity, and the idea of commotion, feelings and actions that both involve and effect the love relative of both the characters. Domination sensual needs, intellect of mistiest that cooperate with the encounter and, also how they development of the love. Jeremy sided ‘’teens have sex’’. (Pg.559) That everyone do any girl and boy love etches other they will have sex even the Adult actions are related to their early sexual involvements. The impact of the self-aware or young people affects in China comportment. China argues, ‘’I am scared ‘’. (Pg561) The rain scene (imagery) is also important. The couple was supposed to enjoy a whole five days of sunshine, with no interruptions to their plans. However, the rain came and disturbed the sunshine. This is telling because it is during this unfaithful trip that China conceives the baby, thus disrupting the couple’s life.
There is also evidence that media consumption is related to actual sexual behaviors. When adolescents are not sure where to turn to get their questions answered about their sexuality, it seems many girls turn to the media as a “sexual super peer” (Brown, Halpern, & Engle, 2005).
The feminist is criticism of the love of my life my Boyle. China was the woman that have the tuple when she was not to thing to do something that is not in her mined to have a baby on her age that, she do not have the power to do and how she will feel about that other girl in the same age that don’t have baby since she is good in school. Also how her live will be looked like when she go to the school and she is picante. That play a big role in her live and also she can be focus, and her feeling will be bad all her life. The live in well world of there own imagination and are unable to cope with a highly competitive, commercial society. It is interesting to point out that right after mentioning their unprotected sexual encounter; the author goes to explain that the couple is separated because they are going to two different colleges. Of course this distance is not only physical, but is also emotional.It is also striking that at the same time girls are receiving strong cultural pressures about how they should look and act, they are also undergoing major physical and psychosocial developmental changes during the transition through adolescence (Belsky et al., 2007; Steinberg & Silk, 2002; Weisz & Hawley, 2002). Simultaneously, they are also experiencing dramatic upheavals in their relationships with par- nets and peers, their family structure, their academic experiences, heir overall school environment (Laser & Nicotera, 2011; Straus, 2006). Counselors who work with adolescent girls, therefore, also need grounding in developmental literature to understand these seismic changes in girls’ development. (Brown, Halpern, & Engle, 2005)