If I Ever Get Out Of Here Lewis Analysis

“Friends are the family you get to choose for yourself.” (Mia Sheridan). People get to choose their friends by their likes and dislikes, but they don’t get to choose their family. In the book, The Pigman, John, Lorraine, and Mr. Pignati demonstrate how friends can change the way their friends think, feel, and act. Many of the characters’ parents show the way one's family can influence bad habits in one’s life. The friends we choose help us make the best memories; John and Lorraine make the best memories with their friend Mr. Pignati more than their family. Sometimes, the closest families are not related to each other.

In the novel “The Outsiders” by S.E Hinton an important theme is family and friendship. This theme is interesting because it shows us how when you’re family you come together to look after each other no matter what. The theme of friendship is also interesting because when your friends you support each other through everything and anything no matter what the consequences are. In “The Outsiders” the theme of friendship is also a main interest because despite peoples differences they can come together through a common interest or factor, which is what happens in “The Outsiders”.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery’s Fantasy story, “Le Petit Prince,” takes place in five different settings: The asteroid that he lives on, asteroid B-612, the Sahara desert, an unknown city, a field where its location is unknown, and the other asteroids that the Little Prince explores in the cosmos of space. In all of these settings the author introduces characters that deliver metaphorical life lessons to the reader. The author didn’t write this book to deliver a story, he wrote this book to deliver different life lessons and themes that the reader is supposed to learn from. In this book the theme of friendship is found consistently throughout the book. This is the theme statement that I had pulled out from the theme of friendship: Friendships help you succeed, and they can help you learn different life lessons, this is why you need to enjoy friendships to their full potential for what they can offer because, they don’t last life times.

The book mainly focused on a very interesting kind of friendship. Clements might be telling us that even though someone may encounter disabilities through life, friendship is not a something that can be taken away.

In both the novella, ‘Of Mice and Men’ and the short story, ‘Flowers for Algernon’ friendship has a major impact on those who are isolated from society. Both of the texts demonstrate the effects of having a mutual companionship and the pursuit of friendship. This is especially highlighted in Lennie and George’s friendship from ‘Of Mice and Men’ which also contrasts with the effects of isolation and loneliness. Those that suffer from loneliness often exhibit an attribute that differentiates them from society. This attribute often causes prejudice. The concept of superiority is also another factor that contributes to isolation. The character, Curly, displays this, he isolates himself by believing that he surpasses everyone else. Frank and Joe

The theme of friendship is explored within this novel by showing how having someone there for you is important. For example on page 35 George says “It’s a lot nicer to go around with a guy you know.” This proves that having a friend who’s there for you can make a difference.

If you were to meet a friend after not seeing them for twenty years, would you recognize them? Do you think they might have changed from when you last met? In the short story “After Twenty Years” by O. Henry, this very concept is tested. Two best friends had moved apart, one moving to the west as the other stayed in New York. Both men, true to their word, showed up at ten o‟clock at the restaurant where Bob and Jimmy had last seen each other. Although one of the two didn‟t reveal who he truly was until the end of the story, there is a twist. When you, or anyone in general, are faced with a certain decision where you could lose a friendship, being loyal isn‟t always the proper choice. Making the right decisions, even through our better judgments,

According to Lewis, we usually think true humility is a certain opinion of our own talents and character, and it always is a low opinion. No doubt our talents are in fact less value than believe, but it’s not the point. The point is we also make our value an opinion for some quality other than truth, thus introducing an element of dishonesty and make-believe into the heart of what otherwise threatens to become a virtue. Owing to this way, tens of thousands of people have been brought to think that humility means pretty beautiful women to persuade themselves they are ugly, and clever men trying to believe that they are fools. But these are nonsence.

'A tale of the innocence of youth and the disastrous consequences of a friendship across a divide '

A utopian idea exists of the unbreakable and unfailing bond between close friends. Such is the case in the tale of Damon and Pythias by Aristoxenus. These men had a strong bond, and they trusted each other, even in the face of death. Their example caused the idea of true friendship to be emulated, encompassed, and engineered by this tale. True friendship is a priceless treasure; true friendship is unconditional.

Around the age of four, I was deposited on the doorstep of Somerset Primary’s Infant Block for my first day in kindergarten. In what can only be described as fate, I found my best friend among that sea of little children. From across the room, our eyes met. At that moment I just knew. Like recognizes like. Her name was Kianna and although neither of us had realized it yet we would be together for the rest of our lives. Through the years, I have been able to compose my own definition of what friendship truly is. It is difficult to describe Kianna in simple terms, like my confidante or comforter. In essence, she is self-sufficient, hard-working, and deeply wise, all traits that have allowed me to establish the type of person I want to be. In fact, she is someone that I cannot help but look up to. I find it admirable that Kianna is the epitome of independence.

Experience shared with other people provided important knowledge that helps people find their place in the world. The novel, Microserfs by Douglas Coupland displays these traits by having reader follow the diary of Daniel Underwood as he starts to wonder if life has more meaning than just working. Firstly, love helps a person understand to improve oneself, that they always have a person to talk too and that love can make people cherish each other. Secondly, Loss can impact people by having them deny about the loss, accept the loss and remember the loss. Finally, friendships help people understand that there is more to life than work, friends are always there to help that friends can provide a comfortable environment. The experience people go through with each others helps people to figure out where they belong.

The story has a remarkable way to portray a different image of friendship, love and commitment. It shows how uniquely different people juggle with the struggles of daily life silently like a ghost. As it is said, the true essence of friendship is tested during adversity and not prosperity which is rightly

C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien’s writings are bursting with stories of friendships that warm our hearts as readers and offer us an invitation into the narrative. Friendship played an important role in Lewis and Tolkien’s works, and can be seen as an invitation to participate in their stories. I would like to propose in this paper that friendship in myth is a vision of the ‘already, but not yet’ age that we live in and that Lewis and Tolkien’s stories can impact how we live out our own friendships.

Friendships exist in different ways: best friends, close friends, friends who have just met, and even bad friends. Depending on how someone gets along with someone else, their friendship can strengthen or they can drift apart and never become great friends. Of course, in some instances, one has no choice but to be friends with someone else, but that does not need to be a bad thing. For example, nobody really has the choice but to love their family and have a certain level of friendship between themselves. Throughout Chaim Potok’s novel, The Chosen, many different friendships develop and grow. Reuven Malter often displays one factor of the two person relationships in these friendships. Potok put Reuven through many challenges and situations throughout the story that caused him to make different friends. His relationship with his baseball players, with his hospital friends, and Danny Saunders all exemplify different levels of the friendships in Reuven’s life.