Stand By Me Questions 'Stand By Me ' is about the friendship between a group of boys and in particular two of them, Gordie and Chris. What do you think it is that binds the four of them together? At times they seem to hate each other, throwing insults around whilst later making it up. Try to give some reasons for them being friends.
I think that their home lives, their support from one another, and their common goal binds them together. In the movie, all the friends have different things going on in their home life. For example, Gordie is as if he is invisible at home. He is never recognized, nor loved. However, with his friends he feels that he is more visible and cared about, which makes his friendship
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I think their friendship gives a realistic picture of friendships because they were always true to one another and wanted the best for each other. The four boys always supported each other through hard times. For example, Chris was very discouraged because the people of the town predicted that he would be a lowlife in the future just like his father. However, Gordie did not let that put down Chris, instead he encouraged Chris to also take college-level course to become something high and prove the public wrong. Female friendships are very similar to this. The only difference is that females sometime lose control over their emotions, which is a good thing and a bad thing. It is a good thing because it can make it easier for friends to express their feelings. However, it is a bad thing because it can create arguments between …show more content…
I would say that from that group, I currently only talk to two of them. I guess this is a good thing because I finally found myself and the type of people I wanted to be around. I found the true friends that were there for me since the first day we met. Over the years, nothing extraordinary happened between me and my friends, other than fact that we slowly drifted away. I did not expect us to fall apart as we used to say that we would go a long way, however, this is life. Some friends come and go, while the real ones stay. I remember in middle school, my friends and I used to play sports, go out to the movies, spend time at the park, and stay in during recess and decorate the library. Those were some good times. However, now it is so hard to take some time out of our busy lives to spend quality times with friends. I realized that as we get older, we get more independent. We all get too busy and focused with education that we barely have time to catch up with our friends. One thing that I would say that is different about my friendship today is that it is a lot more serious. Before, my friendship was more about playing and having fun with each other, however, now it is learning from each other and supporting each other during tough
Both of the main characters have inner battles they struggle to make peace with throughout the novel. The boys also must come to terms with how these battles impact their friendship. One boy lets jealousy and resentment guide his decisions and the other is in denial of the reality of the friendship as well as the world around him. Once the walls of the Devon School stop protecting the boys from their personal battles each boy is able to attain some type of peace with whom they have become and the path they chose to reach this
In the end, deception gets the best of one of the characters, leading to his demise. Although friendship is a partnership created in order to have understanding built upon trust and honesty,
The characters undergo numerous psychological difficulties and they let those obstacles get in the way of their friendship. Through all of this, the common thing that happens between both
“ A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself” (Friendship). Friends love each other and have the patience to love the person you are; following are two great example stories of this kind of friendship. Huckleberry Finn is a story of an orphan that wishes to be free from society; while a slave runs away and they both join together to achieve their dream of freedom. Of Mice and Men is based on two men that are trying to find work and survive; sadly many mistakes are made by one that causes many problems. We will compare and analysis who had the stronger relationships between Huck and Jim, and that of George and Lennie.
There are many valuable things in life, and one of the most significant is friendship. To live a life deprived of the experience of friendship is simply a life without living. Throughout our lives we are always meeting new people and forming relationships that may or, may not grow into anything more serious than a casual conversation. Throughout the novel, The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, friendships develop into a very serious form of brotherhood. Friendship, as well as “brotherhood” are essential parts of the novel.
A book and a movie can be both the same and different. In The Outsiders there are many similarities and differences with the book and movie. They were the same because Johnny kills a man, they cut their, there was the movie scene, and Johnny and Ponyboy went to the church. Some of the differences is when Darry slaps Ponyboy but in the movie he pushes him, Johnny doesn't bring a lot of food in the book but does in the movie he does, when Johnny killed the man it was more described but it wasn't in the movie, and Johnny says he wants to kill himself in the movie. In The Outsiders one of the themes is “friendship”
Although researchers have tried to defined friendship simply focused on the differences between friends and non-friends, Willard Hartup (1996) cited in Brownlow (2012, p. 239) argues that a whole range of relationship is possible from best friend to good friend to occasional friend to non-friend. Therefore, it is far more complex than just a definition between friends and non-friends. Now that friendship is defined it is essential to define and understand qualitative approach. Unlike a quantitative data, qualitative method or approach involves the analysis of talk, interview material and written text such as transcripts, newspaper diaries or articles and it does not use any measurements nor is in numerical form.
Thus, friendships must be considered a crucial relationship among people. Moreover, one of the interviewees went as far to say, "They become outcasts and incredibly depressed to the point of suicide making it necessary to make close friends. " This means
During the Vietnam war soldiers took many sacrifices, including leaving their families and being outkast’s in society. But during the war they made really good friendships. The Vietnam war made people lose their lives, friends, and families. Many people didn 't support the war so they protested, and when the soldiers came back from war they were treated like outcasts. In the novel “The Things They Carried,” by Tim O’Brien, the book shows the themes friendship and sacrifice through key details like when someone dies they still remain friends even though they had a sacrifice.
From what I've read so far, it is clear that Stacey Logan, Jeremy Simms, and TJ Avery, characters in the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, have very different beliefs about friendship. First, Stacey Logan believes that friendship should mean something. For example, Stacey took a whipping for TJ because he was cheating. Next, Jeremy Simms shows the reader they don't have to be the same race to be friends. He would go walk with the Logan's than ride the bus.
One example of when they need each other is when Kevin and Max are running from the Tony D and his gang. One quote that shows an example of this idea is “... they never knew it was Freak who rescued me or his genius brain and my big dumb body” (Philbrick, Page 41). this quote shows that Max may not think much of his part of Freak the Mighty, but his body combined with Freak’s big brain. They are stronger together than apart. They need each other to complete each other.
Through all of the problems the boys have faced they still maintain a friendship. Friendship is a combination of things but it is always built on a foundation of trust, and wanting the best for one
All of the main characters fight for friendship even if they do so in different ways and for different reasons. All of them feel in need of someone to talk to if it is about science, about what horrible things one has done or about being different and alone. Another feature is the loss of friendship in all cases. Victor loses his friends to death, and so does Walton while the creature never really “fulfilled his dream of being anyone’s true friend” (Jeray 69). This way the novel not only shows the importance of friendship and having companions but also the possible consequences of either being rejected by everyone or of losing beloved people partly even due to own
The need for friendship manifests itself throughout all civilizations of humanity, because humans are social creatures that learn and grow from interactions between each other. Throughout the beginning portion of the novel, Kirsten and August share a special friendship whether it be through looting abandoned houses together or sharing secrets (Mandel 39). For example, when the conductor tells Kirsten what the prophet had said to her and asks her to “keep it to herself,” Kirsten asks to share it with her friend August (64). Additionally, friendship provides companions to enjoy the highlights of life and commiserate through the valleys of life with. August also provides this latter component of friendship towards the end of the book when August and Kirsten are separated from the rest of the symphony.
According to Webster’s Dictionary, friendship is “the mutual trust between two people.” Friendship is a key factor in truly analyzing and understanding these two novels. It shows that even if the two books have different storylines or characters, these two stories will always remain bound to the idea of friendship. Although there are many themes to choose from in order to juxtapose these two novels, friendship is a very unique and important one to choose because it truly shows the reader the thought processes of the characters. In terms of juxtaposition, friendship is a theme that is filled with depth, as it is like the bridge connecting two separate ideas