Family And Friendship In A Family

The second struggle in Bruno 's and Shmuel’s friendship is their need to overcome their differences in the family background. One day, Bruno decided to talk about how they came to be in Auschwitz. When Shmuel starts talking about how he got here.He said that, “The train was horrible," said Shmuel. There were too many of us in the carriages for one thing. And there was no air to breathe.” “That 's because you all crowded onto one train,”said Bruno.... “When we came here, there was another one on the other side of the platform, but no one seemed to see it. That was the one we got.” (129-130). When Bruno talks about

I value family and friends and consider them to be a priority in my life. I have many acquaintances but only have a handful of true friends. I consider myself to be a great friend. If I can help, I assist my friends and family with their problems even if I must sacrifice personal interests.

Family will be there for you when no one else is. Friends will be there when family is away. If you have many friends and keep your family close, your life will be much better. An example of family and friends would be in the book, “Of Mice and Men”. George and Lenny were friends and went everywhere together. No matter who talked down to Lenny, George was always there to comfort him and stand up for him. This is why having friends is a good thing and makes your life much better. Another example would be in the book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”. After Henrietta’s cells were taken, and her family got mad and started disliking the science community, her whole family kind of grouped together and hated the science community as a group. They stuck together and were there for each other after that. They became closer, and shared their feelings and opinions, while bonding and helping one another out. This shows that family is there for you when no one else may

Friendship is a basic human need, especially for nine year old boys living their childhood. For Bruno who is lonely, bored out of his mind and could not find friends his age to play with and Shmuel a Jewish boy entrapped in a brutal concentration camp, their friendship is one of the only things that can spark a little happiness and lighten up their spirit. The boys meet in the least possible place – the periphery of Auschwitz concentration camp, where one is imprisoned and the other is the son of the Nazi commandant in charge. Although they are meant to see each other as enemies as a Jew and Nazi, there is no hatred between Bruno and Shmuel. They simply see each other as another kid to talk to out of the loneliness of Auschwitz. As the book

Bruno is an 8 year old boy, whose determination and courage is one of the numerous things that makes him one of the most dependable charters within the novel. Bruno is shown to be particularly vulnerable of his surroundings and what was going on throughout this time. His connection and willpower to be able to make a friend in the most unlikely area and conditions, he sees an opportunity and turns it into an improbable and prohibited friendship that has many twists and turns and uncontrolled concecuences. After meeting Shmuel a young 8 year old boy, who appears to have a matching birthday to Bruno, they form a tight and loving friendship. Shmuel is undernourished and appears to be extremely pale, bringing the readers to understand the vulnerability of the

Friendship, a form of love or companionship between two mutual parties, is exactly what the character Bruno and Shmuel have. Bruno and Shumel forge a meaningful relationship full of trust despite them two living in two completely different worlds. With this in mind, When Bruno and Shumel are herded into the gas chamber together through use of diegetic sound of the dog barking created a sense of suspense and tension however this midst of terror is where their friendship achieves their greatest significance. In the end both boys actually die in one another's arms, with only the comfort of the other to offset the terror of death in the gas chamber. Their trust carries both boys beyond the fear of a lonely death in the Holocaust.

Bruno and Shmuel’s friendship can represent hope for the future, since it cuts through religious distinctions, social differences and historical conditions. Their friendship is an unmistakable portrayal that differences do not divide. Although Bruno and Shmuel were raised to be enemies, they became ‘best friend(s) for life’. This quote was at the end of the novel, when fear and terror overcame them both, but is a reminder to how real their friendship was. Both these boys feel a mutual desire for companionship and thus forgives each other, when one has made a mistake. An example of this is when Bruno caused Shmuel to be punished but knew that he was forgiven when Shmuel simply ‘smiled and nodded’ immediately after Bruno’s sincere apology. This occurred because Shmuel didn't want to lose his only friend, during the difficult and lonely time. Another display of their friendship is meeting at the fence every day, showing commitment. Even with the limited time together, they shared one of the strongest bonds and ultimately, marched to death, hand in hand. However the novel, instead of focusing on the atrocities of the Holocaust itself, it focuses on the intimate relationship between Bruno and Shmuel, making the message at the end more

You can choose your friends but you cannot choose your family members. Friendships are like voluntary relationships that are usually created to have an escape from family. Friends are a way of having someone you can relate to without having to be around them every day. Family on the other hand are forever; till death do you part. Family members may get on your nerves from time to time but they are always there when you need them at the end of the day. Though friendships and family are on different relationship levels they require the same amount of attention.

Even though their friendship ultimately leads to their demise, it teaches Bruno’s father not to make the same mistake. Bruno and Shmuel dub themselves as ‘best friends for life’ despite their racial differences in their current circumstances, where Germans deemed Jews as inhuman and punished them.

Today in our lives, we are surrounded by many people. Some of these people we are surrounded by are either people we do not care for, or they are the people that we cannot spend enough time with. These people we enjoy the most of, are either our family or our closest friends. You may think that friends and family are just a like, but they do differ from each other, and without either of them our life would feel incomplete.

This is my first essay in college, and my mind went completely blanked when I was told to write a paper on what means a lot to me or what doesn’t mean anything to me. I feel like it is a given to say family and friends mean a lot to people, though they really do mean a lot to me. I asked some of my friends for suggestions as to what I can write about that means a lot to me, and eventually a good friend of mine, who we’ll call Hena, gave me a brilliant idea. She told me to write about the adventures we went on, and so I did it in a way where the topics, adventures and friendship, coincides with each other, due to the fact I tend to ramble off connecting one topic to another.

If we talk about Christianity point of view Holy bible lays down “Wives submit yourself into your own husbands as unto the Lord.”

There are so many reasons why friendships would be included in a chapter about family. First of all, friends can become family in so many ways. Some examples are that when someone starts talking to another individual they create a bond by having things in common. After frequent interaction with one another they create a friendship and soon introduce friends to their family members. Therefore, their family members start to get to know them and start involving them to more family events. Soon, those friendships turn into family-friends because the family has developed a friendship with that person. Another reason why, friends are included into this chapter is because friends are a second family when an individual is away from home.

The book “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” explores the beauty of a child’s innocence in a time of the horror from war, the essential desire for friendship in a lonely time and what can happen if you are being sheltered from the reality. It is made clear in this book that Bruno’s death is punishment towards his family. To his father for his position in the Nazi concentration camps and to his mother and sister for not telling Bruno what was really going on. This information could have prevented Bruno’s death. The book also tells us that many Germans didn’t know, like Bruno, what the Holocaust did to their prisoners due to the leadership they had back then. Being sheltered can be good to an extend, but it can also lead to bad things, in this novel it lead to the ultimatum -

My family happens to be deeply religious, conservative and often closed minded about certain aspects of life. In other words, everything that they tend to support and believe in as a family unit, tends to be something I can not personally agree with. As anyone can imagine, this has deeply affected my interpersonal relationship with my family in a negative impact. As an adult, I have come to my own conclusions about my personal beliefs about life and what those entail for myself. These beliefs are usually the exact opposite of what I grew up with, much to the disappointment of my family which has created a deep divide between us. This has probably affected my relationship with my father the most, as he has always been the most outspoken about his disappointment.