A Separate Peace and Of Mice and Men - Real Friendship

Friendship is not something you look divulge in school. But if you havent versed the meaning of friendship, you really havent knowing anything. - Muhammad Ali. \n\nFriendships come in umpteen forms. They bring out emotions in people that they did not have. They athletics a vital billet on the way we sway and how we come to realize who we are. The impertinents A Separate Peace, by ass Knowles, and Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, both takes us through and through the voyage of friendship. This journey takes us through the emotions and demands that comes with a friendship. Jealousy is an emotion that has the ability to break relationships. This cast out emotion can be found in the story A Separate Peace. factor is very jealous of Finny. That is the master(prenominal) reason he jounced the arm that Finny was on, he wanted to be the person that Finny was. In the novel gene states,I never forgot, and that evening I commit on his cordovan shoes, his pants, and I looked for and eventually found his pink shirt...But when I looked into the mirror it was no away aristocrat I had become, no character out of daydreams. I was Phineas, Phineas to the life (Knowles 62). When gene does this, he lets himself escape the guilt that he got from bouncing the limb and fashioning Finny shatter his legs. When he looked in the mirror and saw Finny, it showed that he was becoming what he envied. He wanted to be Finny and putt on Finnys robes made him feel handle he was a shout closer to achieving that goal. Because Finny was also gamy after falling out of the tree, it also let gave Gene the sense that he was on the same level as Finny or even better. \nIn contrast, in the novel, Of Mice and Men, jealousy work outs no role in Lennie and Georges friendship. They both travel unneurotic and are friends because they want to and they get by for each other. Friends rely on each other. When Finnys legs where shattered, he was not able to play sports anymore. So, h e made Gene play them for hi...