Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Erich Segal "Love Story"

Olly and Jenny decide to get married. Therefore, they decide to meet each others parents. It is interesting how Ollies and Jennies parents differ in personality from one another. Olivers father does not want to accept Jenny as Oliver's wife because of her heritage. However, Oliver does not listen to the opinion of his father, he still insists in marrying Jenny, even though that means that he would have to give up all of his family wealth. Jenny's father is totally different from Olivers, he accepts Oliver just the way he is, a guy without a penny in his pocket. He is happy because his daughter found happiness with Oliver, and to him nothing else seems to be more important than his daughter's happiness.
Oliver and Jenny get married, Jenny finds a job and Oliver finishes the Law School but their living conditions are not as good because they have started building their future from zero!
Jenny still feels guilty because Oliver does not speak to his father anymore. Jenny is the one that always tries to convince Oliver to talk to his father, however, Oliver does not listen to her and gets angry whenever she mentions that topic.
Soon after, Oliver gets a good job, their life improves and they start planing to have a child. But, when everything seems to go in its best way possible, something very bad ruins the lovers happiness. Oliver finds out that Jennifer suffers from Leukemia, however, knowing that she is living the last moments of her life Oliver does not want to tell Jenny that she is sick. After a while, Jenny discovers that she is sick from Leukemia, but she does not want to tell Oliver because she is afraid he will suffer a lot if he gets to know that. This is really true love, both of them are trying to protect one-another from being hurt.
Oliver finally forgets the formalities and the fight that he had with his father, and asks him for money in order to safe Jennifer's life, but it is too late, Jenny is living her last minutes in this world. Unfortunately, Jennifer is taking the last breaths of her life, and Oliver is still there, near the bed in the hospital. Jenny dies, and the one that Oliver turn's to cry on is his father's shoulder..

I really loved the story and at the same time it made me very sad. Something that I will always remember whenever I hear the Erich Segal or the "Love Story" name, will be the quote "Love means never having to say you're sorry".

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