C.E. Morgan's 'All the Living' focuses on the young love of Orren and Aloma. Morgan shows us love is both simple and complicated at the same time. One pattern that I noticed when reading is that Orren and Aloma were both looking for love but didn't have an emotional connection. The story's climax arises when Orren and Aloma's relationship take a turn in the end when Aloma comes to the realization of what it is they are missing. Great communication is needed to have a happy and healthy relationship and that was something their relationship lacked. Through the good, bad, and ugly Orren and Aloma try to find a way to make their relationship work. Aloma is confused because she is not receiving the emotional connection from Orren that she wants so she searches for it with Bell. Aloma wants an emotional connection and she has to learn she has to communicate that with Orren. The everlasting question Aloma is faced with is, whether she should fight for her freedom to live out her dreams or to give in to to love.
             On the surface, All the Living is a novel about a young girl name Aloma and a young man name Orren. Aloma was raised in a boarding school where she found her love for playing the piano. She also found the soon to be love of her life Orren. When they met they couldn't stay away from each other, "He did come back, and he came back every other day after that. When classes were over in the afternoon and he was freed from work on the college farm, he showered, combed his wet hair, and tore through the three counties that separated them."(pg.19) Orren is a young boy whose family has died in a car accident leaving him in charge of the family farm. Orren doesn't have any other family and he takes care of the farm for a living. Things turn around for Aloma when she meets the love of her life Orren. Although everything is not perfect with them she continues to stay by his side and support him through...