Love Letters and War

The first couple weeks of class we read all kinds of short stories, poems and folk songs that always had an underlying theme of love and death. Ever y book I have read has always had some sort of love story in it for example, I read Atonement and this is what the book is all about… love and death. This novel is based around World War II a time where death and love was inevitable. Every story that is based in the time period of World War II always has the same kind of storyline. Girl and Boy fall in love. Boy leaves for war and only relies on the letters from his Girl. Boy ends up dying in war. In the story Cecilia and Robbie fall in love. She was the rich girl and he was her landscaper. There love comes across as forbidden considering the different kinds of classes there in. Yet, when they finally reveal their feelings for each other, Cecilia’s little sister catches the two together and from there the plot begins. She lies to her entire family about Robbie and for that Robbie is thrown in prison for years. Everyone believes her except for Cecilia who stands up for Robbie. Throughout the course of the next couple of years she writes him letters promising her love to him. After he is let out of prison, he is sent right to the battlefield. It is here that he sees the horror and brutality of war. However, he still finds a way to get through it only because of Cecilia’s letters. These kinds of stories that involve letters and war just break my heart. You know that stories like these will always end badly which is horrible because you become immersed with the characters and their love letters. I’m not going ruin the end of the story but considering the way every war story goes we can figure it out…