FRIENDSHIPS
Friendships can be one in a million. These friends can shape you and form you in so many ways. You can learn an endless amount through friendships as well as accumulating a lot of personal growth. The significance of friendship can teach you unique lessons, to have an open mind, growth, and can give you a stronger feeling of who YOU really are. Friendship means everything to me. I have to be able to trust the person first. We don’t have to have the same interests, this way it makes it more fun learning new things and never getting bored with the same thing. I have to be able to tell this person anything! Just knowing that the person will be there for me no matter what is enough for me! …show more content…
In the book friendship was a prime factor. The mutual relationship between George and Lennie is a genuine friendship between two very different men.
Lennie is mentally handicapped, a big guy with a stand out personality. George is the small but little tough guy, with the brains and great leadership skills. As the two men are trying to escape from a mistake that Lennie is being accused for, George like always tries to back him up. Their friendship is strong because you know that George would never leave Lennie. This relates to the Great Depression because during this time, you couldn’t afford to do things all by yourself. So that extra help always came in handy. In today’s society, big businesses always need help. The best people in the business always have help right their when they needed it the most to get the job done quicker and nicely. In today’s society Lennie and George would most likely not be friends because, Lennie, not knowing his own strength would hurt someone. So they would most likely put Lennie in a mental hospital, where they would take care of him and make sure he’s not getting into any trouble. George would be able to get a stable job and not have to worry about Lennie. George if he wanted to, could go back to school. Some passages from the book are: “but not us! An’ why? Because… because I got you to look
after me and you got me to look after you, and that’s why!” (Page 10)
“Lennie, who had been watching, imitated George exactly. He pushed himself back, drew up his knees, embraced them, looked over to George to see whether he had got it right. He pulled his hat down a little more over his eyes, the way George’s hat was” (Page 113-116)
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