A Story Of Love

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A story of love The word”love” meansmany things. You love people differently, depending on which kind of relationship you have to them. Love stories can therefore be told in many ways. They can be told by using insignificant objects, which message is relevant for the story, by telling unfinished stories there make you reflect and sometimes you don’t even have to say more than two words to emphasize the point. A love story doesn’t always have to be a happy or wonderful story. The topic could also be something like unrequited love, the fear about losing an important person and so on. The short story “a story of love” written by Ali Smith, is about 2 people, “I” and “you”, who lives together and tell each other stories. Love stories in any conceivable way. There are two characters in the story, “I” and “you”, but the main character is the first person narrator “I”. As readers we hear about “I”s feelings and thoughts, actually it’s like we are inside “I”, and that makes us closer to the narrator. We really don’t get any specific information about the gender, look, personality etc. and the same with “you”. They are surely lovers and live together.The gender is not mentioned directly, possibly because it isn’t important when “true love stories are always interchangeable”. Even so are there still signs there indicate “I” being a girl and “you” a boy. An example could be that “I”, in the first story about the boy having a dog,wants the main character to be a girl: “Can’t it be a girl?”Another example could be that “I thought about how I cycled round these days wearing a shirt you used to wear ten years ago when I first knew you”. It is very unusual that a boy is hanging around, wearing a girly-shirt and somehow almost impossible that it will fits. The narrative technique makes us as readers closer into the characters, and as mentioned before, is almost like we are into
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