The short story The Love of My Life, written by T. Coraghessan Boyle, is about a high school couple in love and they did everything together while having good relationships with each other’s parents. The couple, China and Jeremy, were always together living a movie relationship as the perfect couple. For the spring break of their senior year they decided it was a good idea to go up the mountains by themselves, not knowing the consequences they were going to have to face later on. Throughout the story, the narrator talks about John Donne being China’s favorite poet and includes the line “more than moon,” which is taken from the poem A Valediction: of Weeping. This poem is about a couple being in a state of distress because they were separated. Boyle includes this poem specifically in his narrative as a metaphor as well as way of showing the pain China and Jeremy were going through due to their detachment. …show more content…
Although her stomach was swelling, her parents had not noticed what big secret she was hiding. She would always wear black in order to make herself look slimmer in addition to constantly wearing baggy shirts and sweaters until she went away for college as well as Jeremy. Boyle used the line “more than moon” as a metaphor when he was hinting that China became impregnated during the couple's adventure in the mountains together. He states that Jeremy had called her the moon because of her white skin and the fact that China was getting bigger in size everyday as a result of her