Analysis Of What Are Friends For By Marion Winik

A friend is a companion who is there throughout the many hardships life throws at us. They are supportive of all the decisions you make and they can always be depended on, but most importantly a friend is someone who accepts you for who you are in all of your forms. Friends play a big role in life because they are always there for you. Without friends we would feel lonely. Loneliness is a major theme portrayed throughout this novel as Walton, Victor and the creature are all very lonely. In Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, the creature is a friend, not a foe.

It is important to choose the right friends, good friends can take you wherever you want to go in life, and the wrong friends can be a disastrous decision. A quote from The Pact sums this up nicely, “Friendship can lift you up, strengthen and empower you, or break you down, weaken and defeat you.” (32) This is why it is so important to surround yourself with positive people, and

Helen Keller once stated that “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” Friendship can be defined in many different ways. For example a four year old might say that a friend is the other boy that gave him a cookie. While an adult says someone to talk and relate to when they need it. They are also formed in a plethora of ways. For instance, the two four year olds could grow up staying friends, or you meet some random person in the supermarket and start talking, or even through another friend. Friends are part of what makes life fun, being able to enjoy the joyous times with another person, and lean on them in the challenging times.

to talk to when their in need of one. I would define friends as people whom you can have several

Friends can help people in multiple ways, but the main way is it gives people life skills.

In Bryce Courtenay’s the Power of One Peekay learns about the importance of friendship through many people such as Doc, Geel Piet, Hoppie and Granpa Chook. In chapter nine Peekay says “It had been a long day and a good one. The loneliness birds had flown away and I had grown up and made a new friend called Doc and had learned several new things” (Courtenay 148). In my opinion friendship is one of the most important things in life it helps shape people into who they are and who they will become.

A friend is someone who you experience life with and bond through the prosperous times and also the hardships. A friend is someone who truly understands the person you are, there the person that understands the emotions you express, they don’t give up on you no matter the struggles you face. That, is a true friend. There are many things that shape a man and the character he has. In Mark Twains masterpiece The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn there are many subjects exploited, three are explored in friendship, emotions, and individualism and conformity.

Friends is a very relatable book for young children as it is about two best friends and what happens when one moves far away. Eric Carle wrote this book because he experienced this as a child and often wondered what would happen if he would have seen his friend again. I think children will possibly view this book as a mirror text, and enjoy following along on the boys journey as he searches for his best friend. I would have this book in my class library and it might be a good book to read to the class if you know a student is about move away.

Friends play an important role in a person's life. They encourage when someone is sad, they entertain when someone is lonely, and they listen when someone has problems. There are varieties of friends. Co-workers, social workers, schoolmates, and much more. Each type of friends is helpful in one way or the other. Co-workers could help solve problems and let the workplace be less stressful. Friends from the community could widen someone's prospective by introducing them to new people from different areas. Friends that grew up together would share the happiness and sadness someone might has. It

Friendship is an entity that has been in our history since the beginning of time. This seemingly unbreakable bond has been ingrained in us since before we were able to speak and really understand the value of friendship. Television has even promoted this relationship throughout the years with shows such as Sesame Street featuring Bert and Ernie, the 90’s mega hit simply entitled Friends all the way to the wildly popular cartoon Spongebob and his faithful best friend and sidekick Patrick. Friendships can carry strong or limited emotions so there may be highs and lows, but at the end of the day friendships have been proven to be beneficial for individuals, groups and society as a whole.

Viorst described eight types of friends that women have in their lives, and it widened my understanding of variety types of friends. Also, she encouraged us to make friends and be happy. As old saying goes, “A friend is what the heart needs all the time”, it means that friends are very important to us. Why friends are important? Here are the benefits of making friends.

Friends, the ones that make life better. They are everywhere from the rich to poor they are out their. Julius Caesar even had his own friends that he told everything. Yes this old ruler of Rome even has friends. Mark Anthony was this beloved trusted friend of Caesar’s.

Friends come in all types of personalities, some of which to be aware. There are shy friends, rude friends, giving friends, taking friends, busy friends, always free friends, best friends, and of course frenemies. Not all may appeal to everyone but everyone plays a role as some type of friend. A friend could not only be a person, but a pet. In some cases a person’s only friend is an animal or pet of some kind. Belongings such as dolls or figurines can also be considered someone’s friend. Friends come in all different forms. For most a friend is considered an acquaintance of some sort. There are different ways of meeting them and different time lengths of when they become considered friends.

Therefore, friends are probably the biggest influence during my life right now and they can change you completely. A true friend is someone who brings out the best in you. And That is why friends matter.

When you were still in the kindergarten, friends were the people who romped about with you, played mischievous tricks upon everyone. When you were getting bigger, perhaps at primary school, friends were the people who helped you in your homework, who sung with you at the school choir. Had you forgotten them? Had you betrayed them? Are you a good friend to your friends? A true friend would always tell you the truth, be you best partner when you need him, most of all, support you.