Which statement best expresses a theme of "First Love" by Judith Ortiz Cofer? Love does not come easy.

Love can last a lifetime.

Love arrives when one least expects it.

Love is not for everyone

✔️Love does not come easy.

Explanation:

The statement that best expresses a theme of "First Love" by Judith Ortiz Cofer is "Love does not come easy."

The author tells the story of how she fell in love with a boy in her neighborhood at the age of 14. She was naive and wrapped in the love. The boy worked in the supermarket near their block. So, in order to always look at the boy, she wants to be the one that goes for errand.

But it never looked like the boy loved her back. She said her beloved took her to be his "adorer".

She becomes saddened when her dad informed the family that they will be going to stay with her mom's mother (her grandmother). She knew she will never see her beloved again.

The theme of the story portrayed that love does not come easy. It comes heavily on you and can consume your own mind just as it did to the author.

Below is an excerpt from the story:

"But this is too cynical a view to sustain in the face that overwhelming rush of emotion that is first love. And in thinking back about my own experience with it, I can be objective only to the point where I recall how sweet the anguish was, how caught up in the moment I felt, and how every nerve in my body was involved in this salute to life."