Book Review1-6 Love Story

The Love Story by Erich Segal is one of the most famous books written and features in just about every book lovers list of favorites. The story primarily revolves around two central characters from two contrastingly different financial backgrounds. One was the hero himself Oliver Barret or ollie hailing from the extremely rich Barret family and upon whom fate had without his consent dumped the great expectations which came as part and parcel of being a Barret descendant. On the other end is Jenny who hails from a mediocre family and whose passion in life is music and whose aim is to learn music.Contrasingly their relationship with their respective father's is also extremely different. Jenny is extremely attached to her father where as Mr. Oliver Barret often looks upon his father with contempt and refuses to either take his advice or his help in any matter. When these two people, existing in two different universes meet each other it starts of one of the greatest love stories of our times. They fall in love and get married even though they have to struggle to make ends meet initially .But with Oliver's education completed and a good job achieved their financial woes begin to ease out and the only thing missing in their seemingly perfect lives is a baby. But with no positive results investigations deliver the most devastating news this couple could imagine. Jenny is diagnosed with cancer and the predictions are grim, giving her only a few more days to live. It is in this time of trauma that Oliver looks to his father for financial help to carry out the treatment, but before he could come Jenny had already breathed her last at the tender age of 24 with millions of dreams unrealized. The emotions portrayed in the book are so real and so raw that it makes one connect to the characters almost instantaneously. Though both the Barret finally connect with one another on an emotional level ones mind cannot help but stray to the memories of jenny whose candle of life had been snuffed out so abruptly. (351wards)