This paper should discuss the similarities and the differences between the relationships posed in “the lover” and “The Book of Salt”. The main similarity is how both relationships started off for the wrong reasons, but grew into something that actually meant something. Please include quotes and page numbers from both stories that attest to these similarities or differences. (Also when referring to characters in the lover, do not refer to them by name. Just the girl and the chinese man will do. In the paper before, my teacher said that we don’t really know the identities of the characters in the lover).