Love in The English Patient

Love is definitely a major theme in the book, The English Patient and many forms of it is shown throughout the story. These include both romantic and friendship love. For example, romantic love occurs between Kip and Hana and while friendship love occurs between Hana and the English patient. Since each of these people have just been through a war, they all react to love differently. I think this is significant because we, the students who are reading this book, are going to begin experiencing romantic love in the future. Thus, It is very important that we are able to distinguish between them. Furthermore by seeing how the characters in the book cope with the implications of love, we may better prepare ourselves for what is yet to come.