Reaction About Friendship

Friends are important. They are always good to have around and they can be everything to you. But what does really happen when complications come? Can you overcome them and stay friends?

The composition of the story is after the traditional plot structure. This story has an exposition, a ris-ing action, a climax, a falling action, and a resolution.

The exposition of the story is found in the beginning, where you get introduced to Mischa and Clara, who are the two main characters. Clara talks about how she first went up to Mischa and how their friendship began. After that in the middle part of the story, you find the rising action, where you look more into the friendship between Mischa and Clara. It’s here where you get some information about

There is also the secondary character Renaude. The reason that she is important is that of the interest she puts in the two friends. The story is built around the friendship between Mischa and Clara. The text does not contain anything else than the way Clara and Mischa get along with each other. Howev-er, Renaude brings a new aspect to their friendship. All of a sudden, it 's not only the two of them. For some time it’s all three of them together, but then at the end of the story, it 's just Clara and Mischa again.

Clara is the narrator of the story. She is a first-person narrator and she is subjective to the way she sees things. Clara as a narrator has a limited point of view about the events that have happened to her. She does not know what Mischa is feeling or thinking or that they will have to go through a bit of a challenge. The outer characterization of Clara tells that she is living with her mother, and she is a teen-ager, who is in the last year of high school, and that she is a lesbian. Clara 's father is only men-tioned shortly in the story (p. 11, 1l. 114-115), this could mean that her mother most likely is a bigger part of Clara 's life than her father is. When you look at the inner characterization of Clara, she is very friendly and open-minded. This is shown by the way, that Clara is the one who makes the first step in their friendship by going up to Mischa: “After class, I found him in the

Renaude only emerges halfway through the story and here Clara and Mischa both find themselves drawn to her. Although both Clara and Mischa are a bit in love with Renaude, she really only functions as a reminder that the friendship between them is more important than anything else. This leads to the main theme, which is friendship and freedom. Mischa and Clara think that their friendship is very important, and they are trying to avoid doing anything that would threaten it. The message that the author is trying to get through with the use of this theme could be that teenagers these days discover themselves and adjust to the world that’s around them by trying out their limits and freedom and through their