The Simple Gift

549 Words2 Pages

Friendship means different things for everyone. It can mean happiness and trust. Friends are important to connect to, talk to, and to help in tough situations. Friends help teach life lessons. Most importantly, friends are there to love and to feel loved. The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick revolves around the friendship between the main characters, Old Bill, Billy, and Caitlin. Their friendship resulted in them learning valuable life lessons and experiencing the power of love.

The main character Billy, moved away from his abusive father and ended up in the Bendarat Freight Yard. There he truly learned what it felt like to love and to be loved. Firstly, his friendship with Old Bill taught him that everyone should have a chance to change. This friendship affected his outlook on life, and in addition, his relationship with Old Bill helped him start fresh. When Billy had to move away, Old Bill gave up his house for Billy to live in. This taught Billy that true friends always find a way to help each other. Lastly, Billy's relationship with Caitlin taught him that even though they had tota...

Show More
Related

  • Summary Of A Separate Peace By John Knowles

    796 Words  | 2 Pages

    Friendship is a necessity throughout life whether it is during elementary school or during adulthood. Some friendships may last a while and some may last for a year; it depends on the strength of the bond and trust between the two people. In the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles, the main characters, Gene and Finny, did not have a pure friendship because it was driven by envy and jealousy, they did not feel the same way towards each other and they did not accurately understand each other.

    Read More

  • Comparison Of Two Friends Slim And George By John Steinbeck

    654 Words  | 2 Pages

    To begin with, according to Lucius Annaeus Seneca, “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood”. Even this quote explains that true friendship is when an individual stands for another individual. In the novel Of Mice and Men, author John Steinbeck examine the idea of friendship between two migrant ranch worker even when there was difficulties. Through the character of Slim and George, author Steinbeck illustrates friendship and reveals that friendships stand up for each other even when is difficult time.

    Read More

  • Theme of Friendship in Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson

    823 Words  | 2 Pages

    Friendship is an unbreakable bond between two people and contains loyalty and love. In the story Chains, Isabel finds herself in grand friendships that play throughout the story. She showed how devoted she was towards Lady Lockton, Curzon, and Ruth by being there for them during tough times. In the end, friendship is the light through the darkness, powerful and important.

    Read More

  • Themes In The Simple Gift

    690 Words  | 2 Pages

    He later allows the reader to visualise his town through a description of his street. "Each deadbeat no-hoper shithole lonely downtrodden house in Longlands Road, Nowheresville." This repetition of colloquial negative adjectives expresses Billy's depressing feelings about his home. Billy's undesirable view of his town along with other factors such as being abused by his father aid his decision to leave and discover what else life has to offer. Because of his adverse position Billy decides to leave his town to seek a better life. To do this he becomes a homeless runaway which is his first transition in the

    Read More

  • How Does Steinbeck Present George And Lennie's Friendship

    856 Words  | 2 Pages

    A friendship is making sacrifices in order to make the other one successful and being a model for the other to look up to. In the novel, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck shows the friendship and care between Lennie and George and that both reciprocate this in some ways. Steinbeck develops the idea that plans may go awry but when this happens, friends are needed to help each other in the most difficult times, even through euthanizing a friend if necessary.

    Read More

  • Exploring the Power of Friendship in 'Of Mice and Men'

    816 Words  | 2 Pages

    It just depends on who you are. It is shown many times throughout the book. It is shown with George and Lennie, with Candy, and with Crooks. They all have the same dream, or goal of getting some of their own land. Friendship brings, and keeps people together, it changes people’s actions (usually for the better), and gives people courage to stand up for themselves. But that doesn’t just happen in this book, but in real life as well. The powerful aspect of friendship changes people’s

    Read More

  • Summary Of The Simple Gift By Steven Herrick

    690 Words  | 2 Pages

    Through the view of 16 year old protagonist Billy, the reader is shown his struggles of being a homeless teen. Billy was in a state of homelessness because he ran away from "Nowheresville", and from his abusive father. This is proven on page 10, where in Billy's point of view it states, "The wind and rain hits you in the face with the force of a father's punch..." which implies that Billy knows what the force of a father's punch feels like. His abusive father is one of the main causes for Billy being homeless, and why Billy had hitched a train to Bendarat to start a new life.

    Read More

  • What Are Friends For By Marion Winik

    1857 Words  | 4 Pages

    By definition a friend is a person who provides assistance and support. We have different groups of friends for different purposes in our lives. Although there are many different categories of friends, Marion Winik author of “What are Friends For?” mentions that some of the more common groups consist of the faraway, work, family, and former friends (132). We keep our friends because we value their loyalty, communication, support, and dependability.

    Read More

  • Why Is George A Good Friend To Lennie Friendship

    609 Words  | 2 Pages

    A friendship is a special relationship between peoples , It occurs between friend that care about each other. In talking about friendship , the novella from John Steinbeck “Of Mice and Men”. Two friends George and Lennie ,they are trying to find a job together to complete their dream of having a farm. But Lennie is an adult size with a child's mind, he gets in trouble a lot and as his friend, George helping him solve the problem and taking care of Lennie. Later George and Lennie finds a new job , but George lies to the boss about the problem that Lennie has.

    Read More

  • Psychoanalysis of The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks

    1132 Words  | 3 Pages

    The film chronicles the histories of three fathers, and manages to relates and link their events and situations. First is Mitchell Stephens and his relationship with his drug-addict daughter. Second is Sam, and the secret affair he is having with his young daughter Nicole. He is somewhat of a narcissistic character because of his preoccupation with himself and pleasing himself, and his lack of empathy throughout the film for the others in the town. Third is Billy, who loves his two children so much that he follows behind the school bus every day waving at them. Billy is also having an affair with a married woman who owns the town’s only motel. On the exterior the town is an average place with good people just living their lives. But, beneath all the small town simplicity is a web of lies and secrets, some which must be dealt with in the face of this tragedy.

    Read More

  • Themes Of Companionship

    686 Words  | 2 Pages

    It is through these friendships that drive humans to improve themselves in mind, body, and soul. Without cultivating this bond of friendship humanity will fall apart.

    Read More

  • Theme Of Friendship In The Outsiders

    824 Words  | 2 Pages

    Friendship is when one person has a strong bond with another, the power of friendship is when one friend does something exponential for another, even if it means they risk something important in their lives. For example, in The Outsiders, Johnny saved Ponyboy from the falling lumber, he saved Pony, but at the same time he risked something of own, his life. After Dally’s failed attempt of taking back Johnny from the grips of Death, Dally couldn’t live without Johnny. So when Johnny died, Dally had no reason to live. In the novel, The Outsiders author S.E Hinton suggests that the power of friendship is the strongest and most reliable bond one can have, and it stays with people forever.

    Read More

  • Simple Gift Response

    1789 Words  | 4 Pages

    They went through so much nobody couldn’t even image how much pain they went through. Some went through famine, drought, disease and through family lose. Everyone can help these Children by giving just a shoebox of joy to get their mind off the lost of their family, that could help them so much. That is the way the book by Franklin Graham is called “A Story of Simple Gift.” It tells about how much a difference it could make just by a shoebox. These children wait all year to see if they are going to get a shoebox. I believe that America can help more than what we are doing now.

    Read More

  • Theme Of Friendship

    1092 Words  | 3 Pages

    Friendship is one of many building blocks of life. It helps one realize how the absence of a friend helps one broaden its view on how important someone could be to another. It also causes a person to value others opinion to guide them towards a positive direction. Furthermore, it allows others to experience situations no one else could give them, which in return creates memories that would forever be held onto. Both the novel If I Ever Get of Here by Eric Gansworth and the song See You Again by Wiz Khalifa ft Charlie Puth center on the theme of friendship-showing how it influences personal growth. Both the novel and the song demonstrate that understanding life lessons can help one realize that small acts are the ones that make a true impact

    Read More

  • My Best Friend: A True Friendship

    859 Words  | 2 Pages

    Friendship is one of the most important things you can get out of life. It’s something that everyone has to have because without it, we would all go insane. Just think if no one talked to each other and we never made friends, this world would be a ticking time bomb. Studies say humans need friendships and love to survive. So friendship is a big part of your life.

    Read More

More about The Simple Gift

Open Document