Analysis of a Friendship

In the personal essay “Modern Friendships,” essayist, editor, and novelist Phillip Lopate reflects on the fluid nature of the definition of friendship. Lopate uses chronology several times within the text to accurately convey on the constantly changing perception of friendship throughout history and throughout the span of his life with comparisons consistent comparisons to romantic and familial relationships. Throughout the text, there is a heavy reliance on both ethos, appealing to the relatively intelligent, intended audience, and pathos, to establish a connection to the audience. To refine the definition of friendship, Lopate uses comparison and contrast between family, romantic relationships, and friendships throughout the text. Paragraphs

Aldous Huxley exceptionally brings forth to readers the nature of friendship; this is viewed through the relationships of the characters introduced in his novel “Brave New World”. The relationships share commonalities beyond the general surface. Each character partakes a role of establishing a lack of emotional attachment and empathy towards the other in the friendship. There is also the subtle reoccurrence of character’s inducing comfort in others who share unorthodox values of the society. The reinforcement of the nature of these relationships alludes to through the social conformity between Lenina, Henry, Bernard, John, and Linda.

In middle school I met a girl who quickly became my best friend. After we met, we did nearly everything together. We were simply incepreable. We continued to be very close all the way up into junior year of high school. This is when she met and started dating one of the senior boys from our school. She had always had a thing for "bad boys" and this boy was a picture perfect representation of one. After she started seeing him more, I started seeing her less and less. The boy she was dating apparently disliked me; a lot. He began to take control of everything in her life. When she came to lunch everyday at school, she would sit with me and a group of my friends and tell us how he would hit

When we were still friends she was really mean to one of my future best friends, let's call her Karen. At the time me and Karen weren't friends. Tammy would talk about Karen behind her back, because of how she acted, who she was friends with and even for her weight. Me being who I was at the time, didn’t find anything wrong with this. Until one day she started being mean to me, calling me mean names, not talking to me for no reason. It was then, that I started seeing her as the person she really was. While this was happening I started to become good friends with Karen. Me and Karen would do group projects together and text each other a lot. Then about several weeks after this Tammy wanted to be friends again. Seeing this thru a new perspective and how she treated Karen, I said

Lennie and George, the inseparable pair, are always travelling together. Some people living in 1930’s California find this fact a little bit odd, but to George and Lennie, it is second nature. In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the traditional views of friendship are challenged when the reader meets the main characters, one of whom is suffering from a disability that prohibits him from being able to learn and comprehend basic concepts such as remembering facts or following directions. The other friend, George Milton, grows increasingly frustrated with having to deal with the disability, and continually complains about it; regardless of that, Lennie Small and his lifelong friend George

Sampson, George, and Rameck could have easily followed their childhood friends into drug dealing, gangs, and prison. Like their peers, they came from poor, single parent homes in urban neighborhoods where survival, not scholastic success, has the priority. When the three boys met in a magnet high school in Newark they recognized each other as kindred spirits that wanted to overcome the incredible odds against them and reach for opportunity. They made a friendship pact, deciding together to take on the biggest challenge of their lives: attending college and then medical and dental schools. Along the way they made mistakes and faced disappointments.

I wish I would have done things different with Dorothy. I realize now me saying that I was busy all them times bought serious setbacks for Dorothy and my friendship. I feel by now we could really have a stronger friendship. The more that I told Dorothy that I was busy for her. The more she felt low priority in my life. I should have never made her feel like this. I received a dose of my own medicine the other day I try to call and she was too busy for me. I felt what she has been feeling all these year. I should have communicant to her and explain to her the things that were going in my life. I should have set back time for her, so we could go and do things. I should have not let it get this far. But now I have realized what my mistakes were and hopefully I can get our friendship back on track and it will grow in to a stronger friendship.

Four years ago I met a girl! That is what a teenage guy is supposed to do, right? Kelly (not her real name) and I have been friends for several years now, and I am proud of the relationship we have built. However, when I first met her, she was not in high school. Her mother had taken her out of high school for a year, because she was being severely bullied by other girls at school. When Kelly first shared her bullying experience with me I felt her pain deeply. I told her that I had been bullied too, when I was ten-years-old. Though Kelly never divulged to me the actual details of her experience, I was nonetheless willing to try and help her by sharing what I went through. I relived for her, my days in fifth grade, as I waited in line for recess. Two of my classmates made it their daily ritual to pull my hoodie off as proof that they could do whatever they wanted to me. Their intimidation tactics were regularly followed up with promises of things they might do to me once we reached the playground. Unobservable by teachers and staff at that point, I believed them.

amelia really wanted me to and send this to you: I know what I did can't be forgiven, but I really want to get an education and I want to clear the air. I don't want this to be an issue in the future. We don't have to be friends if you don't want, but I'd really like to be civil with you and move on from our issues. I think the only way this will work out is if we both vow to be okay with each other. Maybe a broken bone can be healed with the right methods, and maybe a sore heart can be mended with a reborn friend. I'm so sorry for the pain I've caused you. I hope we can both be mature and move on.

8th grade was the best summer I’ve ever had. I was so happy because I was able to finally had a group of friends. It all started in Alpena, in May. My friend Breanna and I had gotten into numerous altercations and stopped being friends for a long time. Breanna messaged me and I decided that we should go get some ice cream. It turns out she wanted to say sorry for how she was acting. To this day, I consider her my best friend. Breanna and I reconciled in May and haven’t stopped being friends since. Earlier that year, I had met my friend Alyssa. She was basically like me, loud, crazy, cool, and didn’t care about others opinions on her. This is what basically bonded us. Breanna and I and Alyssa had hung out for a month, and we became the bestest

The article, “Girl Friendship Drama: When it’s Time to Stop Perseverating, and Let it Go.” by Rachel Simmons presents very credible information about girls’ friendship. The great message presented here is masked aggressiveness and selfishness in girls which is mostly shown once they are angered by their friends. I agree with Simmons that girls should be taught a lot of things especially on how to handle their attitudes towards their colleagues. Despite the fact that girls have problems dealing with friendships, a lot of pressure is put by the community, parents and peers that make these girls unable to comply with or match their personal interests and those that they are demanded to meet. Most of the pressure on the girls demand

I chose to be a better person, although me and Breeanna did probably had 10 fights the whole year. We got to hang out more and went to math help together. I decided to bring her to church, It was 5th grade our last year in this school. Then I found out, about half way through the school year, I was moving, not to another house not even anywhere near by. I was moving to Hawaii. I told Breeanna and we decided to be pen-pals. We decided a great deal of things. None of them happened and things fell apart, She was still my best friend. The last time I saw her was at her baptism she gave me a necklace that said “A true friend reaches for your hand a touches your heart.”

In “Friend of My Youth” it is told from the Narrator's mother's point of view who became very fond of her teaching friend as a young woman who was a hell-bent Cameronian. Which is meaning they “forbid engines or electricity or any inventions of that sort” (Munro 152). In this story there are many alternative endings which not all of the ending are what the author intended. Maybe she did not want Robert, or she was secretly insane. Additionally, it could be that Robert was not the one for her. In the short story told, Flora is a timid saint of a woman, her story ends with being stable and healthy but her world is not what it seems when she faces the crippling loss of her lover, the loss of her sister, and the loss of her home.

When I was in kindergarten, I met my best friend. She was very shy at first and nothing about her seemed malicious. However, as the years went by, she became very imperious and unwilling to share anything, including friends. She wouldn’t allow me to befriend any other people without putting up a fight. However, she was allowed all the friends she pleased. Over the years she began to push everyone apart so that she was the common area between a bunch of enemies. Eventually, she and I began to argue over petty things and she would always make me feel as if I did something wrong. A massive argument then arose and I began to lose hope for our friendship because even though she was using me, I was oblivious at the time. The fight did separate us, and I was quite somber about the situation. However, this was when I realized all the things she had been doing wrong; all the things that I was better off without. The ending of our friendship for this period of time allowed me to reach this epiphany that I was my own person able to have my own friends, able to make my own decisions, able to be happy about my accomplishments. This sudden realization lifted the doleful weight from my shoulders, allowing me to become a much happier person with a new outlook on my life. Like I stated before, sometimes it takes us until we reach our lowest point to realize the journey that awaits, to regain the hope and strength that was lost

Imagine your sole confidante, childhood playmate, personal comedian and physiologist disclosing your secrets to a stranger. Unfortunately, this stranger happens to be the person who enforce a form of punishment for the actions that were once a secret. Furthermore, this confidante is considered your friend. Does an instance of this friend disclosing your secret of immoral activities to a person of authority violate the success of the friendship? In fact, this act is not a violation of the laws of friendship. The ideas of friendship are subjective, and thus where you might think your friend’s actions are unjust, your friend is actually looking out for your best interest and security. Also, a good friend would not desire