The book Being by Kevin Brooks demonstrates the theme the dangers of love, by having one make immediate criminal decisions to help another, falling in love for the first time, and dying for the one you love. Robert Smith and Eddi Ray meet under the circumstances of Robert needing Eddi’s help, and her having a misinterpretation of him. As they both learn the reality about each other, they create a bong of dependency and being reliant on each other, but with a lack of trust. As they could possibly both be a threat to one another, building a friendship is difficult enough, but making decisions that are against the law, including murder, makes it even more difficult. They have to learn to cope with each others faults, personality, lifestyle, bad personality traits and habits, as they feel they are forced to live with each other for a period of time. With having seen each other at their lowest, they create a new high for themselves, falling in love.
Robert and Eddi tangle themselves in a very bad situation, including kidnap and murder. Robert goes back to his hometown with Eddi, with only knowing her for a few days, to find someone to help him explain to her what he was, including himself. He is still left with the trouble and thoughts of if he is a human, and if he is, the thought of what was in his stomach that was like metal. Robert knowing that him and Eddi are two different people and have different perspectives, he assumes she would not understand the truth about himself and his insides. In the town, while waiting outside the hospital which he recently escaped, they were confronted by a man named Morris, at gunpoint. Morris was a man that was in the operating room when Robert was paralyzed but conscious, that said “”Christ. What is that? What the hell is that?”” (Brooks, 8) referring to the metal plate that surrounded and covered Roberts’ stomach. At the hospital, Morris knew exactly who Robert was, and helped the others in the room that Robert escaped...