Loss Of Love Theme

“People say you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. Truth is, you knew what you had, you just never thought you’d lose it.” -Anonymous”. In other words, people know what they have, but they just don’t seem to have it in mind that they will lose it someday. People don’t realize that they can lose someone so close to them as they believe that special someone will forever exist. Reality is nothings lasts forever, the only thing that's left behind are only memories. Without any loss, there is no love. The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, is a dystopian novel where the theme is loss of love. Loss of love is both demonstrated in the novel and as well it is presented in the real world. Loss of love occurs in The Brief and Frightening Reign

Phil did not grow up with his father, but he did grow up with his mom. His father out of nowhere just abandoned him, where he never heard anything about him ever again. In his book, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, George Saunders maintains that “Then he remembered the dark days after his father left, when suddenly there was more room to get the refrigerator open but no reason to open it, since there was never anything inside. Why had Dad left? Phil knew very well why”( Saunders 105). Saunders’s point is that Phil’s dad had left him and he felt hopeless on opening the fridge, but Phil knows why his father left. In this case, Phil knew exactly for why his father left him. Another reason for why Phil does not like the Inner Hornerites is because he blames them for why his dad left him because the Inner Hornerites humiliating his dad. When in a real life situation kids are only growing up with one parent. There are plenty kids that are growing up with only one of their parents. Even famous people like Alicia Keys only grew up with one parent, she only grew up with her mom. According to Chrissy Iley, “Alicia grew up an only child with her hard-working Irish-Italian mother Teresa Augello, who was an actress and legal secretary. Her father Craig Cook, a former flight attendant turned masseur, left her mother when Alicia was two, and she spent many years having no relationship with him at all” (N.p). Iley’s point is that Alicia was abandoned by her father that he did not only leave her mother when she was the age of two, but her as well. Alicia was abandoned by her father just like Phil, whom his father left him. Both Phil loses his dad and Alicia loses her father is a demonstration of loss of