reading BLOG ENTRY 1

For the past two weeks, I've been reading the book, Love Story by Erich Segal. This book was written a long time ago, sometime around the 1960's and was immensely popular. Since the novel was so short and only 187 pages with very easy language, I finished it within 2 weeks. While I was reading through the book, I was quite pleased with it but didn't regard it as my favorite. There were very interesting, attractive parts about Oliver and Jenny (the two main characters). I especially liked the beginning in which they first saw each other and were having a fight in the library about how they didn't like each other but eventually went to coffee together. It was so cute. Opposites definitely attract to each other.

After finishing the novel, I was touched. So touched that I knew this book would remain as my favorite in my whole life. It was the ending that made me feel like this. The main theme or quote of the novel was "Love means never having to say you're sorry." Jenny used this quote to Oliver when he apologized his inappropriate behavior to her. However, after Jenny, the love of his life, died, Oliver finally met his dad, whom he ended contact with for a long time. When his dad said sorry for her death, Oliver replied, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." and surprisingly unlike himself, cried in his dad's arms. This was how the novel ended. It was so sweet, I can't explain how much it struck me.