Anton And Echo's Relationship Analysis

Anton and both his parents’ relationships are total opposites from Anton and Echo’s relationship. Between tough love and an addiction that follows Anton everywhere is making him feel worthless. Being addicted to a heavy drug like heroin, takes over a person life mentally and physically. Throughout the whole play John Waters has been trying to give Anton tough love. In the first act after Anton gets kicked out of the Courage Center for not staying clean, John wants to make Anton sleep in the car for four days and if he can do that, then he can come back and sleep in his own bed. When John said, “There will be no relapsing. You’re done now. Or you’re out of the house.” Is a clear example of tough love that he wants his son to get clean and not end up dead like most heroin addicts. With heroin addicts in my opinion tough love is the way to handle someone. My cousin was a heroin addict and once my parents let him in and give him a place to stay, he quickly turned us down by stealing money and the car to get that high he has been craving for. Therefore …show more content…
He is the addiction. Echo controls Anton’s every move, as much as Anton tries fighting it and wants to get clean Echo convinces him to keep getting high over and over again. He always tries to guilt Anton in getting high when Echo said “You know, technically if you wring those out, It’s not like you’re really using dope…” he guilt’s Anton by trying to find the positive in things of doing dope. So with Echo by Anton’s side all the time making his every move and decision there is no hope for him. But the only thing that did work is when John had the gun pointed at his head which finally opened Anton’s eyes, that in reality he really is actually worth something and wants to do something good in his life. After Anton let’s go of Echo he stood by the gravedigger knowing that he is going to die without Anton and that he finally beat the