The+Love+of+My+Life

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__**Summary:**__ In "The Love of My Life" the two main characters are high school sweethearts, who have been in love since their junior year of high school. They are described as "inseparable" and they do just about everything together! Both of these teenagers have bright futures ahead of them. They end up deciding to go to separate college's, and just make the long distant relationship work. In the spring before their freshman year of college, they accidentally conceive a baby. The mother of the infant, China, talks her boyfriend into keeping the baby, but hiding the pregnancy, even from medical professionals. She goes her whole pregnancy in big sweat shirts and loose clothing to hide that she is pregnant. The night she went into labor, her boyfriend, Jeremy, got a hotel room and she delivered the baby girl in the room of the hotel. She told Jeremy to just "get rid of it.". He put the baby in a plastic bag and threw it out in the dumpster. Both these teenagers end up going to jail for their crime, and their fairy tale relationship crumbles apart.

__**Topics:**__ There are plenty of topics in this story... the main one's include Love, Mistakes, Consequences, Death, and Grieving.

__**Evaluation:**__ T. Coraghessan Boyle used extremely good imagery in "The Love of My Life". He definitely goes into depth with detail. "The Love of My Life' is a story that can certainly keep your attention, although it is a long story, you are quite aware as to what is going on through the entire story. It's an easy read, and is simple to interpret. He really does portray that accidents are so easy to happen, and actions have consequences. Boyle's story opens the eyes of the reader that getting pregnant can happen to anyone, it doesn't have to be planned.

I really don't know how to feel about this story. It honestly made me sick and angry how two human beings could be so ignorant. However, the story was a good story, until they threw their baby in the dumpster. I don't know if I should be judging this entire story because I don't like how it turned out. Nevertheless, there are so many other solutions to this problem. They could have literally left their baby on a doorstep and it would have a better outcome, and they'd be in less trouble. I just really cannot wrap my mind around how stupid they acted towards this problem. I mean, what they did was so stupid, I'm having a hard time sympathizing with them. But, then again, I am incredibly worked up and upset about this story, so technically the author did his job correctly. He made his audience feel emotion, and literally try and relate with his story.

__**Citation:**__ // Boyle, Coraghessan T " The Love of My Life". Literature and the Writing Process, // Ed. Elizabeth McMahan, Susan X. Day, Robert Funk, Linda Coleman. Tenth Edition. Pearson, 2014. 345-356. Print.

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Internet Resource- Information on T.C. Boyle [|T.C. Boyle] tcboyle.com is a very informative website with lots of helpful tools to learn more about the author, T.C. Boyle. This website is incredibly cool. It has a tab where you can see all of T.C. Boyle's books in order from newest to oldest. By clicking on any of his book links, it will b ring you to a page that gives the summary of the book you selected, and also the reviews for that book. Also, on this website, there is an "About The Author" tab, where you can read a summary on T.C. Boyle, along with all the awards and honors he has received as well as his literary and film agent. Using this website, you can also go back and read some of the interviews T.C. Boyle has had on his "About the Author" tab. This is a very helpful site when finding information on T.C. Boyle and all of his work.
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The Biography "T(homas) Coraghesson Boyle" is a biography of T.C. Boyle. This biography includes a list of all the books he has written and also includes a table of contents of his biography. This biography is very in depth and explains T.C. Boyle's life and all of his great accomplishments that came with it! What I found that was interesting is this biography not only talked about his past life, but some of his works and the reasoning behind them as well! This biography does give away some crucial information on how T.C. Boyle writes "There are no true heroes in Boyle's short fiction." (Hennessy). This is very important in T.C. Boyle's work, because he never has a hero.

Hennessy, Denis. "T(homas) Coraghessan Boyle." //American Short-Story Writers Since World War II //: //Second Series //. Ed. Patrick Meanor and Gwen Crane. Detroit: Gale, 2000. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 218. //Literature Resource Center //. Web. 1 Apr. 2015.