Seika Murase
Mr. Todd
Language and Literature, E-10, Comparing Theme and Worldview
10 January 2018
Writing to Compare Theme and Worldview In my opinion,“Two Friends” presents friendship more realistically than “Damon and Pythias”. “Two Friends”, written by Guy de Maupassant, is a story of two friends, M. Morissot and M. Sauvage, who go fishing outside the city of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War. This story is more realistic because the background of the story is an actual event that happened in history. Even though the story is fiction, something similar could have happened. Also, this story explains how their friendship developed. M. Morissot and M. Sauvage developed their friendship through fishing. As we know, friendships develop very easily when two people have similar tastes and hobbies, therefore
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People say friendship is key to life and i really think it is because they help you so much in ways you can't even explain.
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