Eleanor and Park Pre-Reading Post

Thinking about all areas of your life, write a thorough explanation of the difference between "like" and "love."

They're both a warm and caring feeling for someone or something . I feel that there are distinct differences between the two as well. It is sometimes hard to tell which is which however one is a lot stronger than the other.

 In life I have liked a boy. I could've sworn it was true love. In my life (so far) I have loved a selected few.What is love really though? The dictionary version defines it as "An intense feeling of deep affection." My definition of love to me would be having care and compassion. Love is everything and nothing at all. When you love something it is blurry and clear at the same time and is never tainted no matter what. And what I mean by that is that when you love, what you love has always been there and is apart of you. Love is blurry because you can never see any wrong in anything the person does "love is blind." Love never fades.

 Like is the feeling you get before love. I feel that like is not as deep as love. When you like something or someone you approve of it you see something in it that you find beautiful and intoxicating. Like is the feeling that you get just when you start falling into the bottomless black hole that we call love. For example I have friends that I've made over the years. At first it was the stage of like. I liked the way that they carried themselves and their personality. As time has progressed I find myself actually loving them for who they are and for their compassion towards me.

 In the novel Eleanor and Park I believe we will see a lot of love and like play out. It is a love story and so far there is not any connections I see in them yet. That's the amazing part about love it's almost like fate. I believe that in the novel the two main characters will have an amazing "star crossed lovers" story.

 "There's a thin line between love and hate" -Anonymous