Friendship

Bigelow and La Gaipa (1975) observed children’s friendships by asking a number of children to write an essay about their best friend using the approach called “content analysis”. William Corsaro however dictates that in order to study children you must study them in the context of their own peer culture, he used the “ethnographic approach”. In this essay I shall attempt to compare and contrast the approach used by Bigelow and La Gaipa (1975) and that taken by William Corsaro (2006).

I met my best friend when I moved from the back of the room to the front to escape one of my former friend’s negativity in Mr. Stockwell’s AP Literature and Composition. I always heard rumors about Brooke being a bully or unpleasant, and I believed it at first because she gave me a dirty side-eye the first week I sat next to her. Then when I pulled out my lanyard to put my key back on it, she gasped and started up a conversation on the anime Attack on Titan. We were alike in more ways than one, which was one more than we both previously believed. My upbringing taught me how to judge someone before actually meeting them, and there I was, thinking I had my friendships laid out properly to the point of being set for life. After hanging out with

I've known Zee my entire life, we grew up together in Odum, Georgia although we had our ups and downs, I still considered her to be one of my closest friends. Zee was an African American female who always wore bright colored or printed clothes; you could spot her from a mile away. She was one who always spoke her mind , and never cared for the opinion of others. Whenever I'd go to her house, we'd talk about anything and everything sometimes we'd talk about the games that we had played as kids and sometimes we'd talk about what kind of lives we wanted to have in the future. Even though there were good times, there were still times that I felt she didn't appreciate my friendship. For example, there were some girls, that had come down for the summer to stay with their aunt she had instantly befriended them and managed to forget all about me and no matter how much I yearned

We had my cousin drive the four of us down there. We had the alcohol, the weed, and even some Adderall, that was the “perfect” combination for a great night, or so we thought. When we got to the house, the doors were all locked, so we found a window that we were able to open. Since I was the smallest of the four, they lifted me into the window. It was dark in the garage, the only light I had was my phone, and there was stuff everywhere. I finally got to the door and unlocked it to let my friends in. We went to the upstairs bedroom thinking that was the best place to be since we weren’t suppose to be there anyway. We ended up getting so drunk that we threw up, not to mention we were geeking from the Adderall. The room was filled with smoke, I could hardly breathe. I don’t remember much after I threw up besides feeling like I had been hit by a truck. Until my uncle showed up to finish putting locks on the doors. I faintly remember him in the doorway asking if I was okay, I replied yeah I’m fine, which I’m sure was slurred. He left and next thing I know my mom is there, and of course, she was irate!! I had never seen my mom so mad and hurt. She jerked me up off the bed, and the room was just spinning. I couldn’t even stand up straight. She was yelling at everyone and threatening to call the cops. The sun was bright and I could hardly see, my head was pounding, and my stomach felt like it had been ripped out. Then I felt her hand strike across my face, she had never slapped me so hard. At that moment, I knew I had messed up big time. She told us all to get in the car, and took my “friends” back home. That was the longest and quietest car ride of my life. When we got home she didn’t even say anything for a few hours. She was so disappointed, I could see it on her face. She took my phone, and I had to sit in the living room with her all day. When she

Marlene Dietrich once said, “It is the friends that you can call at four a.m. that matter.” There are many different types of friendships. Casual friendships, opposite-sex friendships, and long term friendships are all examples of the different and common types of friendships used today. Casual friends are those you can text and hangout with every once in a while, without any sort of attachment. Friends of the opposite sex are those who help you with your relationships when you are having problems, and also friends who can give you a different outlook and perspective on not just relationships but also life. Long term friends are those who have been the most dependable, and friends who you have ideally created the most memories with. These types of friendships have various benefits and include lifelong experiences.

It was the summer before 9th-grade year that I was no longer alone, I made a new friend. She is possessive and controlling. I thought we’d part ways before the two months would end, but she had other plans. Our friendship grew and we became friends with benefits;

Brizia is probably now one of my closest friends, but it wasn’t always that way. We met a couple of days before we started middle school; she was new and I was her first friend. At the beginning of our friendship, I let her take control of our relationship and she manipulated me. She was always popular and used that to her advantage. Because of the vast group of people that wanted to be friends with her, I strived to stay close to her and I would basically do anything that she asked of me. Because of her need of control we drifted apart until a couple of years ago. We have both grown and matured since then.

Let’s fast forward to our last week of 8th grade, she was moving back where she used to live, and we weren’t still talking. She was the type of girl who didn’t care what anyone thought of her, and when comments got to her, she’d try her best to not let anyone know what she was feeling. She was stubborn like that. But she was my best friend,

Friendship is a relationship that all the individuals can create by themselves. Though it is not a god gifted relationship like that of the relationship of a mother, father, sister, brother or any of the other family but still it is one of the best relations an individual can possess. People who have true friends consider themselves as the luckiest individuals on earth.

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

Friend’s are the people in my life who made me who I am today. They are the people that I can always count on to make me smile, even on my darkest days. When I talk about friends, one name always comes to mind and that’s Sydney. I met Sydney in second grade and she was the kind of friend that as soon as we met we became instant best friends. For as long as I can remember we never really got into fights because we just didn’t have that type of relationship. Whenever we would hang out, unlike a lot of kids, we never talked crap about people. We always try to keep everything we say very positive which in our case helped us have an even better of a time because we were never serious. And so like birds, time flew. Time landed us in the most

At school the next day I overheard MMM talking to my friends about my house and how it was “crappy” and how i was “poor”. I felt like an unbalanced rock on my driveway, like I was the smallest rock, that always made everything unstable. I couldn't believe my ears, Amanda, the girl I thought was so nice and fun turned out to be a snob. I went home and cried for hours on hours. From then on, i was ashamed of myself, I never wanted anyone to come to my house again, and see my rock driveway.

The purest of the friendships is the complete friendship. This type of friendship is rare, as friends like these are uncommon. The parties share like-minded views and wish good on the other. Each of the people care for the character of the other, and they share both pleasure and pain. It continues if the good and virtue of the friendship survives (168). The main component in the longevity of the complete friendship is firm foundation in trust (169). Trust is the basis for genuinely closeness. Utility is not the priority in complete friendships, and the reciprocation of loyalty and admiration make complete friendships so rare.

Do you ever feel so proud of yourself when you could make your friend laugh so much that they cried? Well, I did with my one friend, Monica, who always found my jokes extremely hilarious. Like me, she was a student, had a love for anime (i.e. Japanese animation), and shared many of the same friends. She was exceptionally talented at art, and she didn’t have to work hard to achieve good grades. As a result of her great thinking skills, she would often assist me with homework whenever I asked and would just always be there by my side. She was one of those friendly faces I could talk to outside whenever we passed by each other. We shared a healthy relationship like this for years, until one summer day when our relationship came to a sudden

The main and important quality of a friend is to give support. One of my friends that I’ve been friends with for the longest time, Courtney, have been supportive from the beginning. She wouldn’t judge me by the decisions I had chosen. Instead of judging, she stood by my side through Adams Elementary, the school that we knew each other from, till this day. When I was eight years old, she experienced the greedy, bratty, and a mean little girl that matured through the adolescence stage. Courtney was the first person to give me encouragement that I needed in order to have a serious conversation with my mom, that owns a business of nine years, about deciding to pursue my own