Love Story by Segal: What Is Love "What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?" If a person asked Oliver Barett IV this question he would reply that she taught him, a boy who graduated third in his class from Harvard, how to love. In Erich Segal’s novel, Love Story, love is the emotion that all the characters are experiencing in this heartfelt story. Whether its was the love between a young couple, or the bond between a father and his child, this book tells the tale of the bond that holds all relationships together. Segal’s lack of specific details in the novel allows readers to be able to place themse