Love Song By John Kolvenbach - 1239 Words

Illusions I seek things that makes sense to me; it could be a person, it could be a feeling, or sometimes it could be a fantasy that I made up in my head. Everyone has these urges, these impulses to find what they are looking for; even if they do not know quite yet what that may be. Our minds, have a way of helping us cope with thoughts or feelings that seem inexorable to understand; by creating pictures in our heads, such as in the play Love Song by John Kolvenbach. The play follows a man name Beane, Beane is unorthodox and lives a desolate life. Besides his sister, Joan, and her husband, Harry, he has no one. Beane uses his mind to create a relationship with a woman named Molly, Beane falls in love with his illusion of Molly, and creates a light in his heart that before was absent. Beane used his illusion that his mind created to make sense of being companionless, Molly helped Bean cope with being alone, she guided him and made him feel important. The play exemplifies how it an ins tinct to seek things that make sense to us, such as Beane with Molly. Through Beane’s perception of love, the illusion in his mind of Molly, and allowing his apparition of Molly create true love in his heart, he was able to make sense of the person he is. Beane’s perception of love is built based on the foundation of Joan and Harry. Beane watches them, and sees how it is satisfying having another person to call theirs. He is lost in the idea of love, and why he can not achieve that feeling.