A Temporary Form Of Insanity In 'The Kite Runner'

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Love is a temporary form of insanity
In the novel The Kite Runner and the play Antigone Love can be a destructive force such as betrayal, which occurs when one betrays a loved one. An example in Antigone would be when Antigone broke Creon’s law to go bury her beloved brother this questions us to think will people do wrong to help and be with their loved ones and is love a destructive force. In the Dictionary Love is a strong feeling of affection. The readers should be pretty sure that love is a strong feeling of affection the readers has felt it. Readers feel it everyday with family, friends and girls. Readers know that love can sometimes be a destructive force such as divorce, which rips a family apart; having a fight with your best friend …show more content…

But did this loyalty and love make him get into a wrong situation and yes it did after the kite tournament Hassan was determined to run and get Amir the winning kite but along the way he got caught by bullies which then got him into a scary rape scene. Now the only person that could help Hassan was Amir. “I stopped watching, turned away from the alley. Something warm was running down my wrist. I blinked; saw I was still biting down on my fist, hard enough to draw blood from the knuckles. I realized something else. I was weeping. From just around the corner, I could hear Asset’s quick, rhythmic grunts. I had one last chance to make a decision. One final opportunity to decide who I was going to be. I could step into that alley, stand up for Hassan – the way he'd stood up for me all those times in the past – and accept whatever would happen to me. Or I could run. In the end, I ran.”(Hosseini 139). Love let Hassan to run for the winning kite but in end did Hassan get the loved he deserved in return. No he did not get the love therefore love is a destructive force if only one side or one person loves but not the other thing or …show more content…

Creon the king of Thebes had put out a law that no one will bury Antigone’s Brother. But she loved him and she wanted to bury him with honor and pride. But then she had to break society’s law for love. Her brothers “who fought as bravely and died as miserably,” one of theme need a proper burial and she we will provide them one. Antigone knew that this would put her life in danger, this is for her and her family and family was really important to her. Hence this quote “This death of mine/Is of no importance; but if I had left my brother/Lying in death unburied, I should have suffered” (Sophocles 208). Similarly in TKR Amir had spent his entire childhood to get his father's attention and go past what he really loved Hassan. He was so desperate for the love he broke his brothers heart. He went past love and did

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