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They were inseparable, ""I love you," he told her, because he did, because there was no feeling like this, no triumph, no high--it was like being immortal and unconquerable, like gloating. And a hundred times a day she said it too. (613)" the two decide to take a trip and go camping after graduation. At this point in the story we are focusing on Jeremy and China's relationship and how strong it seems. We do however notice their naivety in there actions, particularly after they run out of condoms and still choose to have unprotected sex without thinking of what may lie ahead. These actions and words show that the two characters aren't thinking when they make
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The two would meet in a motel room in between both schools to spend time together. They kept the pregnancy a secret, because this is what China wanted. She would were baggy clothes and a girdle to hide the fact that she was pregnant. Even though Jeremy wants her too, China refuses to get an abortion and believes by ignoring the problem it will go away. "You've got to get rid of it," He told her in the motel room that had become a prison. "Go to a clinic." He told her for the hundredth time. (617)" China calls Jeremy up one night when her water breaks and meets him at the motel where he delivers the baby. Jeremy then disposes of it in a dumpster. They are both arrested shortly after with neither of them feeling remorse for killing there baby but for not being with each …show more content…
China began to put on weight and was afraid of what was going to happen to her, "Jeremy was different. He'd lost everything--he looked like a refugee, like a ghost. (621). The two characters give a sense of despair by their appearances. Yet in the passage above the reader is made aware that their immense agony is only for themselves and not for what they have done. Jeremy would ask, "And what had he done to deserve it? He still couldn't understand. That thing in the Dumpster--and he refused to call it human, let alone a baby. (622-623)" Jeremy had formed the opinion in his psyche that he had done the right thing by getting rid of his child, he began to make justifications for his action in saying that it was just another unwanted child in an overpopulated world. These rationalizations seem to only give Jeremy and China more reasons to not see what they had done as
The two would meet in a motel room in between both schools to spend time together. They kept the pregnancy a secret, because this is what China wanted. She would were baggy clothes and a girdle to hide the fact that she was pregnant. Even though Jeremy wants her too, China refuses to get an abortion and believes by ignoring the problem it will go away. "You've got to get rid of it," He told her in the motel room that had become a prison. "Go to a clinic." He told her for the hundredth time. (617)" China calls Jeremy up one night when her water breaks and meets him at the motel where he delivers the baby. Jeremy then disposes of it in a dumpster. They are both arrested shortly after with neither of them feeling remorse for killing there baby but for not being with each …show more content…
China began to put on weight and was afraid of what was going to happen to her, "Jeremy was different. He'd lost everything--he looked like a refugee, like a ghost. (621). The two characters give a sense of despair by their appearances. Yet in the passage above the reader is made aware that their immense agony is only for themselves and not for what they have done. Jeremy would ask, "And what had he done to deserve it? He still couldn't understand. That thing in the Dumpster--and he refused to call it human, let alone a baby. (622-623)" Jeremy had formed the opinion in his psyche that he had done the right thing by getting rid of his child, he began to make justifications for his action in saying that it was just another unwanted child in an overpopulated world. These rationalizations seem to only give Jeremy and China more reasons to not see what they had done as