Thesis is the main reason why the two main characters met, it is also a proof or a requirement that a student needed to graduate, excel and receive rewards.
More specifically: to graduate. Just like in life, we focus more on academic matters that we forgot the people that gave us the real meaning of it. The real life lessons and the experience, most of the times, it takes a great tragedy to understand what’s important. Simon also uses stones to remind him of a specific “memory”. We usually say that “Peoples change, memories don’t.” admit the fact that when you try to forget the person, their memory will somehow fade also, and in order to remember those again is to see that person or see something that really reminds that person to you. It’s about reminiscing memories just like what Simons’ stone
symbolizes. This is also great for a teacher-student story, although not literally, because in order to teach someone the greatest lesson you need to not only touch their minds but also touch their hearts. Simon made them see that to look at someone’s appearance does not mean they don’t have feelings and without knowing how a person cares or feels for others, is the highest honor you can achieve in life. To give yourself to others without any expectation in return, is the highest honor you can achieve in life. High Honor is about what you feel for others and how you treat them. The lifetime value we can teach to others, the greatest inspiration to change for the better and see the good things in life.