1. Lesson of Love
The Analysis
By Christina, Yuki, Julia and Deborah

2. Plot

3. Conflicts Person Vs. Self
“I believed myself still invisible to him in my “nothing” status as I looked upon my beloved.” pg. 184

4. Conflicts Person Vs. Person
“It would be long weeks of confusion and pain before I realized that the kiss was nothing but a little trophy for his ego.” pg. 185

5. Main Characters Actions
“Later, much later, after what seemed like an eternity of dragging the weight of unrequited love around with me, I learned to make myself visible and to relish the little battles required to win the greatest prize of all.” pg. 185

6. Main Characters Thoughts
“…(and that is why I felt free to stare at him – I was invisible). He could not see me because I was a skinny Puerto Rican girl, a freshman who did not belong to any group he associated with.” pg. 182

7. Main Character Description
The main girl in the story is a skinny Puerto Rican girl who is a freshman in high school. She is deeply in love with a boy who barely notices her.

8. Secondary Character Descriptions
Mother
Married to a person in the Navy
Smokes
Caring and Concerned
Boy that the girl loves
Rich, attractive and Italian
a senior at the same high school
He parties a lot
very desirable by many people.

9. Literary Devices
“I felt like a pilgrim waiting for a glimpse of Mecca.” pg. 181
Simile
“I saw other roman ladies emerging from their parents cars looking authentic in sheets of materials that folded over their bodies like garments on a statue by Michelangelo.” pg. 183
“My cells were tuning up like musicians in an orchestra.” pg. 184

10. Literary Devices
“My father left me to my mother, who impassively packed while I explained over and over that I was at a crucial time in my studies and that if I left my entire life would be ruined.” pg. 185
Hyperbole
“…(and that is why I felt free to stare at him – I was invisible). pg. 182

11. Literary Devices
“I fell in love, or my hormones awakened from their long slumber in my body and suddenly the goal of my days was focused on one thing: to catch a glimpse of my secret love.” pg. 181
Personification

12. “I thought I kept my lonely romance a secret.” pg. 182
Literary Devices
Foreshadowing
“I thought I kept my lonely romance a secret.” pg. 182

13. Narrative Point of View
First Person Narraration
“I thought I kept my lonely romance a secret.” pg. 182

14. Significance of the Title

15. “If love were easy, life would be too simple.”
Themes
“Love is like war: easy to start and hard to end.”
“If love were easy, life would be too simple.”

16. Our Echo is a song called ‘Jar of Hearts’ by Christina Perri

17. Citations http://www.frontiernet.net/~mblow/harris_burdick.htm