How would you describe china and Jeremy at the beginning of the story and at the end?

Answer 1

Short story about a love affair between high school students Jeremy and China, which ends in tragedy when the girl gives birth in a motel room and the couple abandon their baby to die in a dumpster... Tells about a rainy night they spent together watching slasher movies, when her mother was away, and an idyllic camping trip the following spring... In the fall-or the end of August, actually-they packed their cars separately and left for college, he to Providence and she to Binghamton....On the day they left, she told him she was pregnant... Baggy clothes, that was the key, all in black, cargo pants, flowing dresses, a jacket even in summer. They went to a store in the city where nobody knew them and she got a girdle, and then she went away to school in Binghamton and he went to Providence... She refused to have an abortion... On the night her water broke... she'd been having tense rasping sotto-voce debates with Jeremy on the phone-arguments, fights-and she told him that she would die, creep out Into the Woods like some animal and bleed to death, before she'd go to a hospital... He threw the baby in the dumpster after she gave birth in the motel, and drove her back to her dorm... He was woken in his dorm room by a policeman who arrested him... Only then did he think of that thing in the garbage sack and the sound it had made-its body had made-when he flung it into the dumpster like a sack of flour and the lid slammed down on it. China was taken into custody as soon as she was released from the hospital... All she wanted-and she didn't care what they did to her, beat her, torture her, drag her weeping through the streets in a dirty white dress with "Baby Killer" stitched over her breast in scarlet letters-was to see Jeremy. Just that. Because what really mattered was what he was thinking... He was no longer a freshman at Brown, not officially, but he had his books and his course notes and he tried to keep up as best he could... And what had he done to deserve it? He still couldn't understand. He learns that she is going to testify against him in court... Under house arrest, she daydreams of him... He was Jeremy. He was the love of her life. And she closed her eyes and clung to him as if that were all that mattered.