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Plot Summary of Love Story
"Man meets woman. They fall in love. They marry. His parents disapprove and disown him. They live and scrounge to survive. He graduates from college. He gets a good job. They move. They try to have kids. They seek profressional help. He finds out she has leukemia. She gets sicker and sicker. She finally dies and he reunites with his dad."
Amanda , Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of Love Story
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Plot
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Time/era of story - 1960's-1970's
Family, struggle with Yes
Struggle with: - Father (or standin)
Family, caring for ill Yes
Who is sick? - wife
because he/she is - physically ill
Internal struggle/realization? Yes
Struggle over - dying
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Coping with loss of loved one(s) Yes
Loss of... - wife/girlfriend/squeeze

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - a lawyer creature
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Physique - very athletic

Main Adversary
Identity: - Female
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - teacher
Eccentric/Smart/Dumb: Yes
Eccentric: - obsessed - eccentric
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Physique - healthy but a geeky weakling

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 7 (a good amount)
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
City? Yes
City: - Boston
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee - hostile, like Gomer Pyle on steroids
Misc setting - fancy mansion

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references - descript of kissing - impregnation/reproduction
Lot of foul language? Yes
Unusual Style: - a lot of play on words - a lot of flashback and forwards - a lot of stream of consciousness - written like a journal/diary/letters
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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