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Annotation In Lolita

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The story of Lolita is centered around Humbert Humbert’s relationship and love for Lolita. Since the story is focused on love rather than obscene topics such as rape and pedophilia, Lolita is not obscene. The book starts out with describing Humbert’s romantic relationship with Annabel when he is thirteen years old. Humbert portrays himself and Annabel as being, “madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other” (12). Humbert Humbert’s love for Annabel is cut short, however, when she dies a few month later. The story then transitions from looking at Humbert Humbert’s love story with Annabel to Humbert Humbert’s love for Lolita. Throughout the story, Humbert Humbert expresses his love of Lolita’s physical nymphet appearance.

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