What Are Friends For
What Are Friends For?
Marion Winik has the talent to captivate readers for her particular way to relate to humanity; attribute being considered as the key of her success as author, journalist and teacher. The article “What Are Friends For?” Is a humorous but realistic way of stereotyping friends, is written in a colloquial and informal style. The reader has the feeling that the author is recounting one’s own life.
One type of friendship Winik refers to are the Buddies, these are one’s best friend. The gals who are by one’s side in both good and bad times, Buddies are such a good friends that "they come over to help you decide what to wear on a date. Even if it is with that creep" (Winik 510). With this example, the author is trying to illustrate sarcastically that Buddies are unconditional friends.
Faraway Friend is not close physically in the present, but has been in the picture since the beginning of time. Every time a Faraway Friend comes around is a joy, cheers one’s life. The journalist believes that a Faraway Friend plays an important role in a person’s life, having the ability to refresh one's memories about past affairs or perhaps a forgotten secret. "Faraway Friend always helps to put your life in perspective" (510).
Another type of friend Winik enumerates is the Relative Friend; can be a cousin, uncle, sister-in-law, or any other member of the family. "The two of you share the same views of the other family members…. [this relationship] is relatively worry-free"(510). The author uses the names of her own family members to recall a family reunion, in order to describe that special connection, a Relative Friend is like no other one.
New Friend is the last category, as one’s goes along the lines, Winik describes it in such fashion that can make the reader conclude, that New Friends have the magic of reinvent oneself energy with the sense of being only in the present. “It’s almost like falling in love” (Winik 511).
No matter what type of friends one’s
Marion Winik has the talent to captivate readers for her particular way to relate to humanity; attribute being considered as the key of her success as author, journalist and teacher. The article “What Are Friends For?” Is a humorous but realistic way of stereotyping friends, is written in a colloquial and informal style. The reader has the feeling that the author is recounting one’s own life.
One type of friendship Winik refers to are the Buddies, these are one’s best friend. The gals who are by one’s side in both good and bad times, Buddies are such a good friends that "they come over to help you decide what to wear on a date. Even if it is with that creep" (Winik 510). With this example, the author is trying to illustrate sarcastically that Buddies are unconditional friends.
Faraway Friend is not close physically in the present, but has been in the picture since the beginning of time. Every time a Faraway Friend comes around is a joy, cheers one’s life. The journalist believes that a Faraway Friend plays an important role in a person’s life, having the ability to refresh one's memories about past affairs or perhaps a forgotten secret. "Faraway Friend always helps to put your life in perspective" (510).
Another type of friend Winik enumerates is the Relative Friend; can be a cousin, uncle, sister-in-law, or any other member of the family. "The two of you share the same views of the other family members…. [this relationship] is relatively worry-free"(510). The author uses the names of her own family members to recall a family reunion, in order to describe that special connection, a Relative Friend is like no other one.
New Friend is the last category, as one’s goes along the lines, Winik describes it in such fashion that can make the reader conclude, that New Friends have the magic of reinvent oneself energy with the sense of being only in the present. “It’s almost like falling in love” (Winik 511).
No matter what type of friends one’s