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  • Essay / The Story of Lolita' - 660

    3) Humbert Humbert, who had a rather happy childhood, falls in love with a girl named Annabel Leigh. She and he started out as friends which eventually escalated into a sexual relationship but never came to fruition due to her death at the age of 13 from typhus. This traumatizes Humbert Humbert and strangely triggers an attraction to young girls for the rest of his life. To adapt to his loneliness, he ends up marrying a woman who has childish characteristics so that he can lead a more or less normal life. After his uncle dies, he is left with an inheritance, but only if he takes an interest in his uncle's business. When he tells his wife that he has to travel to America, she admits that she had an affair with another man, a taxi driver. He travels alone to America and joins the household of a widow, Charlotte Haze, and her twelve-year-old daughter, Dolores Haze, who is called Lolita. Instantly, he realizes that he has found the one who will make Annabel a person from the past and deliberately leave him trying to find a way to be with Lolita without her mother knowing. When Charlotte sends Lolita to summer camp, she confronts Humbert Humbert, informing him of her feelings for him. She suggests that they get married or that he find another place to live. Through panicked thoughts, he decides to marry Charlotte in order to stay close to Lolita. When Charlotte discovers Humbert's diary Humbert confessing his hatred towards Charlotte and his infatuation with his daughter, she runs out of the house, threatening to leave and expose her but dies instantly after being hit by a car. He arrives at Lolita's summer camp to pick her up and spend the night at the Enchanted Hunter...... middle of paper ....... During his incarceration, he learns that Lolita died during childbirth and he ends up dying. also because of heart failure.4) Lolita is unique. There is absolutely no book I have read in my life so far that can compare to such magnificent and complex diction. Throughout Lolita, Vladimir lists rhymes, allusions, metaphors, anything and everything to mask actions that his readers might find obscene and repugnant so as not to be completely direct and blunt. As I read the book, I felt like a juror, like it was my decision whether to let this man go free, be charged with rape, or convict him of murder and rape. Although I began to feel sympathy for Humbert at times, I always remembered how manipulative he was towards certain characters from start to finish and wondered if he did the same to me..