Love Story By Segal: What Is Love

Part I of Essay
"What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?" If a person asked Oliver Barett IV this question he would reply that she taught him, a boy who graduated third in his class from Harvard, how to love. In Erich Segal’s novel, Love Story, love is the emotion t ....

Part II of Essay
.... this novel was not very wordy, Segal manages to "Go into great detail about the character’s personalities and feelings towards one another." (J.Leavitt) Segal’s original style of writing allowed readers to laugh as well as cry with the characters as though they were along with them. Erich Segal begins his novel by informing the readers of the tragic death of a "twenty-five year old girl", who by the second page, readers can identify as Jenny Cavilleri, a "wisecracking Radcliffe music major". Even though well aware of the ill-fated des ....