Comparison Of Love In Desiree's Baby And The Love Of My Life

While many people may argue that love is a very special and extraordinary feeling that we humans have towards a specific person, love can also be a very dangerous and indefinite feeling that could lead to various amounts of disasters. For Example, The prominent theme in both the stories, “Desiree’s Baby” and in “The Love of my Life”, is the concept of love, which is a very controversial issue even in today’s society. In my opinion, I believe that love is a very general ground for what an individual's does towards another human being that he finds and is willing to sacrifice their life towards. Through the plethora of examples I’m about to provide, I will elaborate upon what I believe is the concept of love as compared to what is the noticeable theme within the stories. In the story of Desiree’s Baby, the story is centered around a girl named Desiree. Desiree is an orphan who’s found by a monsieur named Vlamonde who adopts her under his family with open arms. With this story, Desiree finds a Paris man named Armand and gets married to him around the age of 18. Within the begging in of the story, a sense of mystery to Desiree’s identity is what sets the rising action of the story, as the family that took her in were still trying to find her true origin before they married her off to Armand. Desiree, even with this theme of mystery of origin, the couple get married and raise a child together. Within 3 months of the baby’s growth, the Armand begins to become cold and heartless towards both Desiree and the baby as he finds out ironically that Desiree is a mixed individual consisting of both black and white origin. With this major shock to Desiree’s Origin, Desiree decides to flee the premises of her husband back to the comfort …show more content…
The Story is centered on two Teenagers named Jeremey and China. Jeremy and China are high school sweethearts who have very good futures set out for them. Within the story of events, they both accidently conceive a child around the freshman year in college. With this sudden change of events, it sets a mood of happiness and then completely throws the reader through a blunder after the ending. In the ending, Jeremey and China both rent out a hotel room and deliver the baby in the hotel. After the delivery, the couple concludes that they should just "get rid of it."(Boyle 159). It’s prominent that the love that these individuals had was just towards each other and not any other human, even their very own offspring. In Conclusion they end up going to jail and the author achieves what he wanted from the beginning, to work up people and invest the reader in the story and completely bewilder the …show more content…
While Desiree committed neonaticide as an ultimatum as she had nowhere to go that could stop her child from going through the same racial path she was determined by her DNA, she decided to end the child’s life with her too to end all possible chances of suffering. As compared to Desiree’s situation, 138 years later, Jeremey and China had the chance of growing a child of their own, but to insure their chances of being together they made the sacrifice and ultimatum of killing a baby through the love of one another, making love look obsessive and desperate when it came down to