East London love story

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

112 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

08/03/2009

Category :

Philosophy & literature

Sub category :

Literature

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Summary :

Introduction
The people who dreamed of a better life
1963: The coldest February in London
Joe De Milo: Musician and pianist
1. A gentle scholarly man
2. His inscrutable God
3. The accident that killed his parents
4. His hunger and his pride
Eric: The son of Joe De Milo
1. His dislike for education
2. The translucent innocence about the child
3. School and home: Two separated entities
Dusty Switcher
1. Dusty and Aunty Cookie
2. His mothers illness and her recovery
Cookie's pride in Eric
The life of Nellie Donovan
The Queen's coronation anniversary
The romance between Eric and Helena
The New Year
De Milo's trip to the London Pictorial Magazine
Eric's declaration of his marriage to his mother
The cold journey to Russell Street
Helena's attempts to hide her marriage from the staff of T and H
Joe's accident
Eric's promotion to the main photographer for the magazine
The war troubles
Eric's enrolment in the armed forces
His stay at the retreating camp
Conclusion

Abstract

They were both children of poverty, born into the dark slums of east london. Yet their worlds could hardly have been more different. Eric De Milo blessed with a loving Italian family and an artistic gift that gave him a chance for a better life. On the other hand, Helena Whitman who knew little of love or kindness, her gift was for survival. Then astonishingly, love blossoms between them, and for a while, it seems that nothing can tear them apart.

However, can their love endure when it separates Eric from the world he cherishes?

This is the story of a love that yearns to flower despite every obstacle, the kind of love that endures the hardships of the east london slums. The first time he saw her she was in a gallery, standing right in front of one of his pictures. To Eric De Milo, a young artist in london, she was the most beautiful creature he had ever seen. Her name he learnt was Helena, and she came from a world that was very different from his. Then love blossomed between them, and where love is concerned, the differences never seem to matter. In the streets of east london, England, where the dark alleys and the narrow streets hold the secrets of the salty sweat of hard labor, the despair of families living in the tiny rooms of the little terrace houses, big enough to hold families with their children all under one roof.

These are the places, which barely sustain the life of immigrants through the ages. The people who dreamed of a better life, in a civilized European country, the Empire the storytellers spoke about in the corners of their muddy market places, where the streets of london are paved with gold. This is the infamous east end side of the notorious square mile of the City of london, where the rich get richer by the minute and the newcomers of the third world tighten their belts even more, in the hope that they will feel the hunger less.

This is the new generation of the new arrival of yet another race. It is like the gigantic rotating wheel in the local fun fair, where every one of its sitting buckets is holding a different group of nationals. It started with the Yiddish Jews, as they are remembered, rushing in to avoid the European persecution.