Part one of term paper
"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 that all the characters are experiencing in this heartfelt story. Wh ...

Part two of term paper
... Oliver as they face many different encounters in love and life. One reader really captured the feeling as he states: "Not just a story—Love Story is an experience. The reader who responds to this little book will feel less like a reader than an unwritten Segal Character, living it all out from the inside…In this "love story" you are not just an observer." (Christian Science Monitor) Although this novel was not very wordy, Segal manages to "Go into great detail about the character’s persona ...