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.
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