The Love Of My Life Analysis

The short story “The Love of My Life,” written by T. Coraghessan Boyle, is based on true events previous to the publication of this story. “The Love of My Life” primarily discusses a couple that decides to rid themselves of their newborn baby. Boyle introduces the pair, named Jeremy and China, participating in a blur of romantic highschool affection, lacking any care in the world. The relationship mimicked a fairy tale in their eyes, especially to China. After a while, among later college and adult years, challenging complications uncovered, unwanted pregnancy, and left Jeremy and China to make a load of life-changing decisions. In the end, these two young adults made many unintelligent decisions, ultimately leading to them murdering their

Essentially, their children’s morals and decision-making suffered because of their lack of communication with their parents. This is a common occurrence in current times and can even be dated back the seventeenth century’s “Little Red Riding Hood.” This version of “Little Red Riding Hood,” written by Charles Perrault, basically follows the traditional storyline. Perrault’s version consists of a spoiled, beautiful girl bringing some food to her sick grandmother who lives in the woods. On the way Red meets a wolf who she naively converses; the wolf eats Red’s grandmother, pretends to be her, and then he eats Red as well (Perrault 1079-1081). In the short story, Red’s mother is never recorded to warn her daughter of any outside atrocities. The mother simply sends Red off with the food. In “The Love of My Life,” China’s parents failed at the same task, to talk personally with China or give her any advice for the future. Red would have benefitted by being warned about the possibilities of her future, just as China would have. In both texts, the parents’ inability to guide their children in the correct direction, by their lack of conversation, was a key factor in proving why their children made the choices they