![]() Both their parents’ marriages are plagued by physical and/or verbal abuse, and Callum’s older sister Lynette’s interracial relationship ended tragically when she and her boyfriend were beaten almost to death. Sephy and Callum’s relationship isn’t the only romance in the novel to be tinged with violence. Through their relationship, Noughts & Crosses presents love (and especially that between people of different skin colors) not as something sweet and pleasant, but as something intimately and confusingly interwoven with violence, fear, and danger. ![]() Particularly for Callum, who becomes progressively angrier over the course of the novel’s span of three and a half years, it’s nearly impossible to separate his love for Sephy from his desire to hurt or kill her-and everyone else who looks like her. But their romance is forbidden because they’re of two different races, and their relationship grows increasingly passionate and violent as racism and segregation reshape their lives and start to pull them apart. The romance between privileged Cross Sephy and nought Callum starts off innocently enough: as young teenagers and best friends spending an idyllic afternoon on the beach, Callum asks to kiss Sephy just to see what it’s like. Noughts & Crosses is very concerned with love and romance. ![]()
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