Love can be hard to understand, love changes people in numerous ways leading to many writers expressing change from love in their works. From Plato’s views that love completes us to the Buddha’s thoughts that love is just a terrestrial desire that leads to suffering. (Cleary) Many famous writers and philosophers have differing views on love and have written as such. However, despite the differences in opinion, many wrighers would agree that love can change a person immensely.
Foer uses repetition extensively by repeating the words “I” or “You” at the start of sentences or after punctuation, “I was ... You were ... I was.” (Foer 3) This literary device appears at the beginning of the passage and sets up the two people the story focuses on. The pattern of “I...You” also appears in the majority of the middle of the passage “I was… You were… You were… I was,” (Foer 5) “I couldn’t… You didn’t… I wouldn’t… You spent,” (Foer 6) “I was… You were… I was… I just… You were.” (Foer 8) Repetition
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The idea that people change when in love is shown in the repeated use of “I” and “You.” The repetition in the passage is used to show the traits and Idiocracies of the characters and the repetition repeating throughout the passage at different points represents traits at different points in time. The recurrence therefore shows how the lovers have changed. Another use of repetition to demonstrate how people change when in love is shown when Eliot repeats questions of doubt to show how the character is changing his mind about love. The use of repetition first appears when the character thinks “‘Do I dare?’ and, ‘Do I dare?’” (Eliot 38) and once again when the author writes “Do I dare?” (Eliot 50) The reaction shows how the character has begun to question his quest for love and begins