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Analyzing Robert Munsch's 'Love You Forever'
Love You Forever

Intro to Social Psychology
For: Professor Suzan McGirl

October 15, 2010

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LOVE YOU FOREVER

The title is says it all “LOVE YOU FOREVER”, written by Robert Munsch in 1984. The children’s book is often given to a new mother when they have their first child. This story is about a young mother and her baby boy, and how they both grow together. A mother’s unconditional love, understanding, belief and forever presence in a child’s life; is it her heart, job or her gender.
Every night the young woman would sing the following lullaby: I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be. The baby went through all the stages of childhood from toddler, to teenager,

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