THE ANALYSIS OF
JEFFRY ARCHER
OLD LOVE
By
Vina Qurrota’ Akyuningrum
Summary
Everyone has someone that he loves, but not with William Hatchard. He does not like anyone and he hates Philippa Jameson. Both of them are clever and famous, but they hate each other and have been rivals since the first tutorial of their freshman term. They have spent three years together in many competitions and became rivals. But in the third year, they will prove who is the best by following higher competitions. Charles Oldham, they are competing to win that race.
After giving their essay, William walked down the beach and found a girl under a tree. He sees the girl clearly, she's the enemy. Philippa! She cried out in tears because Philippa's father died that morning. And William had learned that Philippa's mother had died even when Philippa had not remembered her. They walked home holding hands, even though William didn't know why he did it. The next day, William escorted Philippa's home town, accompanying Philippa to his father's funeral. He had even heard the sorrowful story of his enemies all along. On the way back, William told Phillippa that the car he used with Phillippa today is actually very special. William's father told him if William may not spend his night with a girl like now in the car who was given by his father.
He said “If I go in the night with a barmaid then I should simply order an extra pint of beer, but if I draw the night with the vicar's daughter, I would have to marry her." Said William.
Phillippa laughed and said that she couldn't marry someone that she never liked. William smiled and said, "If I win the Charles oldam competition, you should marry me. After they arrived back at college, William got out of the car and said that he had begun to love phillipa. Philippa told him to go home and forget what William said today and hope that she would never see him again.
When it’s time for the announcement of Charles Oldham, Philippa heard the winner was her, she was very happy. But at the same time, she is sad because she has fallen in love with William and has a plan to say that she wants to marry him.
Philippa can see that William was also sad about that announcement. It's not because of the prize, mark of popularity. It is about how he said that he can't marry Philippa. Philippa decided to say that she loved William too.
For several times William was happy, but it's like he wanted. He wants to become a winner and said that this winner is for Philippa. When someone came to them, that boy said to William that William was the winner. William and Philippa ran together to the board announcement. They can't know the winner because the judges are confused about who will become the winner. William smiled at Philippa, and asked Philippa for the second time to marry him. Phillippa says yes. Both of them are married in Philippa's hometown.
After they married, they still became rivals outside, but inside, they lived with each other. Philippa can not give William children, but William still loves Philippa. Every morning they will have breakfast and every night they will sleep together. Both of them are never far away for a long time until they are old.
One day, suddenly a doctor came to William's room when William wanted to surprise Philippa. The doctor said that Philippa had died and that fact made William very sad. William ran to the hospital and met his wife. He can see that Philippa had died. William cried and went down. He closed his eyes and stood up. He hugged his wife for the last time. He can not imagine life without Philippa. He decided to kill himself in his room after the Philippa ceremony. All the staff are very shocked when they know the fact. Their story is done, but their story will still make all people remember the beautiful love of William and Philippa.
Plot
The title of the story is Old Love by Jeffrey Archer. It is a progressive plot. This story talks about the situation, introduction, rising, conflict, climax and resolution.
Old love, this story takes on a romantic theme. The story line is an advanced row. The author told the story by falling from two strangers to each other, until they fell in love. Each moment it creates an advanced plot.In the opening the author talks about William's behaviour. William is the person who did not love at first sight. He hates Philippa and both of them hate each other.
Some people, it is said, fall in love at first sight, but that was notwhat happened to William Hatchard and Philippa Jameson. Theyhated each other from the moment they met. This mutual loathing commenced at the first tutorial of their freshman term. Both had arrived in the early thirties with major scholarships to read English language and literature, William at Merton, Philippa at Somerville. Each had been reliably assured by their schoolteachers that they would be the star pupil of their year.
At the Olympics, they began to feel that they should keep their distance and be rivals. Her finances are starting to show signs that they won't get along for very long. Both wanted to be stars in front of each other's teachers.
Each had been reliably assured by their schoolteachers that they would be the star pupil of their year.
Both of them compete with each other. Once they had to compete with a good essay in order to get straight A from their college professors. For months, years of tofu changes, and they continue to compete. Even during the holidays they spend their time writing essays. But unfortunately, despite all their efforts, their results will still be the same.
During the long vacation both worked to a grueling timetable, always imagining the other would be doing a little more. They stripped bare Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, and went to bed only with Keats. When they returned for the second year, they found that absence had made the heart grow even more hostile; and when they were both awarded A-plus for their essays on Beowulf, it didn’t help.
One day when the two had just finished the essay for the race. That everything began to change. Flowers on the banks of the river, Philippa paw alone. William was walking there and accidentally heard Philippa's cries. He approached the Philippines and asked. Who knew that the ever-mocking Phiippa had just been crying for the loss of his father.
They both handed in their twenty-five-thousand-word essays to the collector’s office in the Examination Schools and left without further word, returning to their respective colleges impatiently to await the result.
“She died when I was three. I don’t even remember her. My father is—” she paused “—was a parish priest and brought me up, sacrificing everything he had to get me to Oxford, even the family silver. I wanted so much to win the Charles Oldham for him.”
Philipa went home the next day with William to attend his father's funeral. Since then, both have been very close. Until one day, problems arose. William proposes Philipa to be his wife, but sadly, Philipa will only marry William if he succeeds in defeating his essay.
“What do you think I’m doing, you silly woman? I am going to ask you to marry me.”
“An invitation I am happy to decline, William. If I accepted such a proposal I might end up spending the rest of my life stranded on the road between Oxford and Stratford.”
Both marry after falling in love even though the race is a series. They have been married for several years, but still have no children. Outside the two are the same, competitive, but at home the two are so romantic and can never be apart for long. Until one day, when Philippa had grown old, he died, and that made William very sad in his room. Though both were gone, their love story would remain with all the days of those around them for loving one another until old age and never part until death.
The only sadness in their lives was that Philippa could bear William no children, but if anything it drew the two closer together.
The old man lay motionless on the wooden floor in a pool of blood, a small pistol by his side. The two men walked in and stared down. In his right hand, William was holding The Collected Works of John Skelton. The book was opened at “The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng,” And the word why wham was underlined.
POV
POV In this story it takes a third point of view. The author as the point of view tells about William and Philippa. The author makes it clear in the first paragraph that it's the third point of view. We can see in the first paragraph how the author talks about William.
Some people, it is said, fall in love at first sight, but that was not what happened to William Hatchard and Philippa Jameson. They hated each other from the moment they met. This mutual loathing commenced at the first tutorial of their freshman term. Both had arrived in the early thirties with major scholarships to read English language and literature, William at Merton, Philippa at Somerville. Each had been reliably assured by their schoolteachers that they would be the star pupil of their year.
The author tells about him (William) and her (Philippa) in the story, how they hate each other until they fall in love. It takes plural he, she, and them.
On Monday night after a resplendent dinner with the warden of Merton, he decided to take a walk along the banks of the Cherwell to clear his head before going to bed. The May evening was still light as he made his way down through the narrow confines of Merton Wall, across the meadows to the banks of the Cherwell. As he strolled along the winding path, he thought he spied his rival ahead of him under a tree, reading. He considered turning back but decided she might already have spotted him, so he kept on walking.
This story can't say it's first or second point of view because the story is told by the author, not the character. It's not used by me or you, it uses him, she and them. From the characteristics above we can take conclusions that it's a third point of view.
At the beginning of their third year they both, on Simon Jakes’s advice, applied for the Charles Oldham Shakespeare prize along with every other student in the year who was considered likely to gain a first. The Charles Oldham was awarded for an essay on a set aspect of Shakespeare’s work, and Philippa and William both realized that this would be the only time in their academic lives that they would be tested against each other in closed competition. Surreptitiously, they worked their separate ways through the entire Shakespearean canon, from Henry VI to Henry VIII, and kept Jakes well beyond his appointed tutorial hours, demanding more and more refined discussion of more and more obscure points.
From the story we can draw conclusions about its progressive plot and tell the reader about the detailed story of Old Love by Jeffrey Archer. This story is also a third point of view that is explained and told by the author. The moral values that we can learn from the story are that we may not hate to much with someone because maybe that hate will become love. Even though we don't have children, we should still love each other until the end. Last but not least, if someone leaves us, please be patient and do not kill ourselves like William.
References
Jeffrey, Archer. (1980). Old Love. The Entire Original Jaffery Archer Short Stories.
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