The Lover by Marguerite Duras pages 75-117

Further in the book the French girl and the Chinese man met three years later, as soon as he saw her he went to talk to her but he was nervous as usual. To hide the nervousness he started smoking and asks her to come to his place. For some reason the French girl knew that this man that she love wasn’t only committed to one girl, he had many more. She was still a virgin at the time. She decided that she wanted to do something that she knew her mother was going to find out. At the time the man was thirty and she was eighteen but she didn’t really care he had everything that she was looking for in a man and plus he liked for who she was. After they had sex they realized that they didn’t really know each other. They started asking each other question. As the French girl started telling her story she quickly noticed the pity that he had for her and her family. She turned the question to the man and asks him. He explained to her his father’s fortune. Although they were falling in love the French girl knew that her mother and he elder brother wasn’t going to accept the fact that she is not in love with a white man. But in her mind what her mother didn’t know wouldn’t hurt her. They kept on seeing each other until she decided to tell her mother about him. She did everything that she could for her mother to like him. She made him look for the most popular restaurant so that the mother can see that he’s a rich man. Her mother didn’t care about the, she was disgusted by her daughter’s choice. She didn’t want her to see him anymore, so she checked her every day. Years later the Chinese man came to Paris and called him, nothing had changed between them.
"He still loved her, he could never stop loving her, that he'd love her until death."(Duras 117)
I like this quote because it show what kid of relation that the french girl had with the Chinese man. although her mother didn't support her decision he was still an important person in her life. she was never going to forget him; her first love' or he was never going to forget her.

The Lover by Marguerite Duras pages 1-75

The lover is about a French girl leaving with her single mother and her two brothers. She had an elder brother she hated and a little brother that she treated as if it was her child. She hated her mother because of the fact she didn’t have any say when it comes to her elder son. Since her mother was a single parent of three kids, her son was the only one that was giving her money. They were poor and were moving from door to door. The French girl was pressured to work hard in school to become something in life. That was what was expected of her and especially because her mother was a music teacher. She realizes that her life depended on her mother and her elder brother. Her mother and she always had conflicts about everything. It wasn’t long that she noticed that her mother was born mad; also she couldn’t understand why her mother was so frustrated with everything. She knew that her mother had friends from her childhood. She wanted a way to escape from her mother’s drama so she decided to look for a man that was going to love her for who she is. She also needed a man that was going to help her with her family. As soon as she saw the man she felt something, although she was fifteen at the time. They introduced themselves to each other.
"Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but i want to tell you i think you're more beautiful now than then." (Duras 1)
I like this quote because it already makes the reader interested in the book because it was one of the first sentence in the first place. it also reminded me of Things Fall Apart because the styling. It talk about the pass and changes to the Present.