LOVE IS A FALLACY (REACTION)

The story, "Love is a Fallacy" was a full of hopes and funny story. The story tells about the hope of the narrator to change Polly Epsy into an intelligent girl whom she want to go steady with. At first, Polly Epsy was dumb before the narrator taught her a little bit of his knowledge. The narrator had a very difficult time before Polly Epsy was good enough for his satisfaction. I really like the patience of the narrator. Though there is a time that he wanted to give up, but still, he continue teaching Polly Espy to make her his perfect wife to be and he really did a great job but he never win a date with Polly because he is already with Petey Bellows just because he had a racoon coat which he asked the narrator in exchange to date Polly Epsy.It was also very funny that Polly chose Petey,who was very dumb than the narrator who is intellegent and most of all who really give her the knowledge to know about the different fallacies.

The different fallacies were explained very well in there. The sequence of the story is really organize. At first reading, I did not understand some of the lines because it uses deep English words but when I read it for the second time, I already understand especially the sequences of the scenes. During the first part of the story, the characters are well defined. The narrator was defined as an intellegent guy and he really is because he taught Polly Epsy the different fallacies like Dicto Simpliciter, Hasty Generalization, Post Hoc, Contradictory Premises, Poisoning the Well and many more. He is also a rich man because he was able to give Peter Bellows a racoon coat.

I felt really sad about the narrator because he did his best to teach Polly the different fallacies and he was really very patient in teaching her and in the end, Polly did not choose him just because he had no racoon coat. He was also very confident that he will be the one chosen by Polly and that Petey will never be interested with Polly because he had given him a racoon coat. In the end, the narrator realized about his mistake and it was good for the other people. He made Polly Epsy an inteligent girl. He also made Polly and Petey to be close because only of that racoon coat.

In this story "Love is a Fallacy" by Max Schulman, I learned many things especially about loving others. First, we should not be very confident enough because in the end we will never know what will happen. I also learned that we should not be slave in loving others. We should not let our personal affection affect overpower us that we will do anything just for the one we love. Sometimes it is not good to do that because we sometimes realize that we are hurting others' feelings. It is also good for others especially positively thinking because we may find our inspiration in that kind of relationship.