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Segal, Erich: Love Story
Love Story
Erich Segal was born 1937 in New York as the son of a
rabbi. He was a graduate of Harvard and wrote texts for musicals. Today he lives
in New Haven and is a professor for literature in New York.
When the "Love Story" was published it became a Number 1
bestseller. The film with Ali Mac Graw and Ryan O' Neil tempted more than three
million people into the cinemas.
The main Characters z
Oliver Barett IV. û a student at Harvard
University and one of the best players in the ice hockey team. His family is
rich and noble, but Oliver doesn't like his family's richness and he hates his
father, because he suppresses him.
Jenny Cavilleri û a student at Radcliff University
and she is of Italian descent. Her family is very different from Oliver's, they
are neither rich nor noble.
Jenny and Oliver first meet in the library at Radcliff
University and it seems that they hate each other, but they arrange a meeting.
While they drink coffee they get to know each other and Oliver invites her to
his next ice hockey game. Jenny comes and Oliver doesn't even look in her
direction, but he thinks that she believes he glances to her. While Oliver has
to sit on the penalty bench, Jenny comes to him and speaks with him, but he
ignores her and spurs on his friends, but still he talks with Jenny. Then she
disappears and Oliver loses sight of her. After the game they go for a walk and
Oliver brings her to her hall of residence. They talk on the phone for hours and
they meet every day. One day Oliver confesses her that he loves her.
Some months later they visit Oliver's parents. Jenny is
very nervous, because it all seems so luxurious and she is afraid of the first
meeting with Oliver's parents but there are no problems. At dinner Oliver and
his father start a discussion and as usual it ends up in a quarrel. At the next
date with his father they talk about Jenny and their marriage plans. His father
says Oliver should postpone the marriage, but Oliver replies that he will not
wait and so Oliver walks out of his father's life and starts his own.
One Saturday they visit Jenny's father Phil and he
receives Oliver friendly. At dinner they talk about the marriage, because he and
Jenny are not religious but Jenny's father is. A chaplain from the university
will marry them after both award their degrees.
A single word can describe Jenny and Oliver's daily life
during the first years best, it is "scrounge". Every waking moment they
concentrate on how they could get enough money to get by and there's nothing
romantic about it.
After Oliver has finished the Harvard Law School they
have to move to New York, because Oliver gets a new job in a prestigious office.
Oliver earns a lot of money and so they have no financial problems. They also
think about having a baby and they try hard to make one, but they are not
successful. Therefore they consult an expert and they are examined quite often.
Some days later the doctor calls Oliver and says that he wants to see him in his
office. Oliver is sure that Jenny can't have a baby and that's right, but it
isn't only that. Jenny has a form of leukemia and she will die. The doctor says
that Jenny doesn't know it and tells him to act as normal as possible. Oliver
starts to think about God and religion and he thanks God for every moment with
Jenny. But one evening he comes home from work and Jenny is ineffably sad.
Oliver knows that the doctor has told her the truth. They enjoy each day and try
to live normal.
One month later, right after dinner, Oliver cleans up
while Jenny plays on the piano. Suddenly she stops and Oliver looks in her
direction. She is just sitting there and asks him if he is rich enough to pay
her a taxi. Oliver knows that this is the end. Jenny will walk out of the
apartment and will never come back. In the hospital Jenny's arrival is not
unexpected. She is supervised by doctor Ackerman, a leukemia specialist. He
explains Oliver the situation and Oliver tells him he should do what he can to
make it not hurt.
Jenny dies in Oliver's arms some days later. Her father
is very sad, but Oliver helps him to get through this hard time. Oliver's father
comes on Jenny's day of death to console Oliver and he says he is sorry about
what has happened. Oliver answers what he has learned from a beautiful girl
which is dead now. " Love means not ever to say you're sorry." Then he does what
he has never done in his father's presence, much less in his arms. Oliver
cries.
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