Friendship can surpass any boundaries. The friendship between Kwee Ping An, a Chinese Indonesian who was born in 1931, and Browes, a Dutch soldier whose goal was to colonize Indonesia, surpassed the boundary between foe and friend. Over 50 years their friendship lasted, until death came to take Kwee Ping An away. Kwee Ping An lived his entire life in Sumenep, Madura. He married Njo Giok Tin in 1954. At that time, he lived next to Browes, a Dutch soldier who stayed in Indonesia. Sharing common interest, which is hunting, they became really close. Riding Ping An’s Jeep, they often went to the woods together to go hunting. They enjoyed hunting different kind of animals, from bats, birds to wild boars. But the animals that they often hunted …show more content…
His house is around 1000m2 big with a large garden at the back that was filled with many different animals that he got from hunting. There were wild boar, tiger, orangutan and other animals that he kept as a pet. He also joined PERBAKIN, Persatuan Penembak Indonesia, which is a hunting organization in Indonesia. He was having a lot of fun in hunting, he even managed to shot flying bird while standing on a moving pick …show more content…
Even though the distance separated them, they contacted each other and were still good friends. Even though Browes wasn’t so well off, he sent money to Ping An as much as 700 golden, Dutch’s currency at that time. In 1978, Browes went to Indonesia to visit him together with his wife and child, Franky. It was a touching reunion between the two families where the parents reminisce about the past while the children played together. Eventually, the time for Browes and his family to go back to their home country came. Browes asked Ping An to go with him to Netherlands even though only for holiday. However, Ping An refused because he got his wife and 8 children who he needs to protect. Even though they both never see each other again after Browes last visit to Indonesia, they still contact each other and their friendship runs deeply in their heart. In 2003, Ping An had a liver failure and died on the same year. Before he breathed his last breath, he asked his children to call Browes. He said he had something to say to him before he died. That time, there were phones but international calls were expensive. Compared to nowadays currency, the price of international calls were about 300 thousands rupiah. He didn’t manage to talk with Browes until his last
On July 20, 1958, a doctor by the name of Artemio Bracho contemplated the idea of a World Friendship Day. The World Friendship is a foundation that honors friendship and fellowship among all human beings, regardless of race, color or religion. This day has been recognized in several countries and is used today. Friendship is established on loyalty and being there for your friend in their time of need. In Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, the protagonist, Isabel, created several relationships with other characters that were constructed on loyalty.
Born in 1894, Hee Kyung Lee grew up in Taegu, Korea. Although the details of her early life are not given, the reader can assume that she came from a decent middle class family because her parents had servants (Pai 2, 10). In the early 1900’s, Japan exercised immense control over Korea, which by 1910 was completely annexed. Her twenty-year-old sister and eighteen-year-old Lee were introduced to the picture bride system, an opportunity to escape the Japanese oppression (Pai 4). Unlike her older sister, Lee made the decision to immigrate to Hawaii in 1912 as a pictu...
In Rodman Philbrick's Freak the Mighty he illustrates the idea of friendship. Max and Kevin a.k.a. Freak the Mighty go through many difficulties in life. One has physical problems and the other mental problems. They help each other get through these problems by supporting one another. For example when they get stuck in the tenements (apartments), or when they would go on their “quests.” When Max got upset when they talked
After war Daru had requested to be transferred to a small town, where the silence of the town echoes in the schoolhouse; and it was hard on him. Now that he has company the same silence still muter the house. He thought about war and how he fought next to other men, whom he got to know and to love. The presence of the Arab imposes on Daru a feeling of brotherhood that he knew very well, and that he didn’t want to share. Men that fought together, or share rooms, or were prisoners or soldiers grow a peculiar alliance. However, Daru tries not to think about it, such feelings aren’t good for him. Daru wishes the Arab runs away because he feels as much of a prisoner as the
In the book, Novel Without A Name three men; Luong, Bien, and Quan are childhood friends who have similar upbringings. The author Duong Thu Huong writes about their childhood “We had chased crabs together, wrestled with one another, gone to school under the same roof.” (Huong 29). These three men were very close while they were growing up. When war had started they all joined the army for similar reasons of honor for themselves and their village. It wasn’t until their experiences of war, that the outlook of these men started to drift away from each other. The separations would be driven with the positions they held in the military. Bien was a sergeant who wore the full burden of the hardships of war. He was on the front lines experiencing the
hunted with bows and arrows and as the years went on and how they trade with other tribes and
Since men act in ways that bring their lives happiness, it is generally found that friendship brings happiness; however different kinds of friendship bring different types of happiness. Regardless of the type of friendship, what can be agreed and accepted is that the best type of friendship will be virtuous. “[G]oodwill, when it is reciprocal being friendship… To be friends, then, they must be mutually recognized as bearing goodwill and wishing well to each other” (Nicomachean Ethics, 8.2, 1155b-1156a 34- 5). Friendship requires reciprocal well-wishing, and mutual awareness based on lovable qualities, such as the good, the pleasant and the useful. By analyzing these three kinds of friendship, it will be proven that the friendship is a virtue or rather a good action.
Throughout history there have been many friendships but the true friendships that last throughout time. Gilgamesh and Enkidu are an example of true friendship when it comes to how loyal and caring they were. The two friends were willing to do anything for each other. Both men, who were equally strong, felt the need to unite their strengths and weaknesses, as well as their courage and fear. They grew together emotionally and physically, making a perfect team.
The Tale of Kieu, called the most important piece of Vietnamese literature, is the story of a young Vietnamese girl's attempt to right the wrongs of her past lives by enduring hardship in this life. She is sold into prostitution and continuously deceived by men promising her love. The only man whose promise of love is not in vain is Kim Trong, the first man to pledge himself to her. Kieu is visited by a ghost who reveals to her the bad karma she earned in a previous life. Following Kieu and Kim Trong's vows of love, he is called off to attend to his family when his uncle dies. Soon after, robbers brake in to steal and vandalize Kieu's house, and they tie up her father and brother. In order to redeem them, Kieu sells herself into a marriage. Unfortunately, the man she marries then turns around to sell her to a brothel. This is the beginning of her life as a prostitute.
Seeing how Anh Nguyen chose and broadened the relationships and behavior of Beto to others around him, we can imagine our faces at this age. Beto is a little black and naughty dog while Bino, his best friend, is a little white and nice dog. They are different, but their friendship is a strange harmony. It is naive, sincere, unselfish and "clear" like black and white. Reading “I am Beto”, you will recognize a nasty Beto like slippers, clothes… or Beto with naïve thinking. Then you will laugh when imagining Beto’s cool face when he and Bino sneak down to hear the rain falling on the rooftop.
One illustration that occurred with both Wu Peizhen and Jiang Lili was how Wang Qiyao viewed the relationship as if her friends should be grateful that she is even hanging out with them in the first place. "Before long, it was more like Wang Qiyao was doing her a favor by going with her"(28). While with Jiang Lili Wang Qiyao initiated their friendship with the hopes of maybe gaining a little bit of attention from Jiang Lili's saying that "Maybe the others would end up giving their excitement over to her"(48). Although it is true that the friendship between Wang Qiyao and Wu Peizhen was more genuine, the friendship between Wang Qiyao and Jiang Lili was not without ulterior motives for either party. Both Wang Qiyao and Jiang Lili could gain something other than company from their friendship. For Wang Qiyao the main benefit of being Jiang Lili's friend was purely for monetary and material gains "Staying with the Jiang family had hundreds of benefits, but not a single one rightfully belonged to her"(85). In contrast, Jiang Lili's reason for having Wang Qiyao around was for social gains. Jiang Lili desired to flaunt Wang Qiyao's beauty to gain recognition and divert her insecurities. In both cases, the friendships were
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. American novelist Sue Monk Kidd takes us back to the mid19th century, and exemplifies this quote by showing the importance of friendship in her novel The Invention of wings. The main characters develop their complex friendship by showing compassion. Moreover safety plays an important role in their friendship.
So-Ha’s family made their living as farmers and shopkeepers. Although Tan Chuen provided free education to children, So-Ha did not have the opportunity or the time to go to school. She worked from the crowing of the rooster to the dark of midnight. She was not the only child in her family;...
The last I saw KuKhong was at my eighteenth birthday. He sat with his siblings, but at a distance, shoulders a little slouched and with a drained smile. I remember those red packets I received from him when I was younger at New Years and birthdays, only — at most — RM5. You can imagine my surprise when I opened the red packet and found RM50 this time. I wasn’t the only one, though. Mama’s eyes widened, dashing off to find YahYah. It was then I learnt that he was not on speaking terms with his children. Mama said that he treated Jhor Jhor badly now he’s the one being treated badly by his own children, walking a mile or two in Jhor Jhor’s lotus feet so to
The drama surrounds the story of a young woman called Anowa who disobeys her parents by marrying Kofi Ako, a man who has a reputation for indolence and migrates with him to a far place. Childless after several years of marriage Anowa realises that Kofi had sacrificed his manhood for wealth. Upon Anowa’s realisation Kofi in disgrace shoots himself whiles Anowa too drowns herself.