Friendship In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

It is moments together that change people forever. This saying shows that friendship is made up of many moments that amount to a big change. Friendship is, according to Webster’s New World Dictionary: Third College Edition, the state of being friends or an attachment between two people who know each other well and are fond of each other. Friendship is not enmity. Friendship is not loneliness. The connotative sense of the word is a happy one because it reminds people that they have created a bond with another person in this big, lonely world who understands them just as well as they understand themselves. Friendship is not a big thing, instead it is a million little things shared between two people who understand each other better than themselves.

George and Lennie are two oddballs who seem like an unlikely pair, but they define what friendship really is. Lennie is willing to give up anything just so George can be happy, and George feels the exact same way towards Lennie. However, they don’t show their love for each other in big, grand ways. They share little moments and in those moments their love for each other is defined. One of these little moments happens when Lennie tells George while they are eating dinner, that if Lennie had some ketchup, “I wouldn’t eat none, George. I’d leave it all for you. You could cover your beans with it and I wouldn’t touch none of it’’ (12). Lennie loves to eat his beans with ketchup, yet he tells George that if he had any, he would give it all to George. Even though Lennie is mentally challenged, he is still able to show just how

One small moment that defined friendship for me happened on a rainy day. My friend, Olivia and I had plans to go to the beach, but the weather had been gloomy that day so instead we stayed in and watched TV. We broke out the sweet candy and buttery popcorn and settled in the blanket fort for a TV marathon. Laughter could be heard throughout the house as the terrible, yet ridiculous TV shows played in the background. Popcorn lay strewn all over the floor after our attempts to catch popcorn in our mouths. This day would become one of my favorite days we spent together. That day was not filled with rowdy activity and pictures to prove it. Instead, that day was filled with sharing lots of life’s simple pleasures, like staying in on a rainy day and building blanket forts, with one of our favorite people in the world. But small moments don’t always happen during the day. One of my favorite small moments happened in the darkest hours of the night. This happened during one of the many late night conversations on video groups chats with my friends. Josh, Ben, Olivia, and I stayed up until 2 a.m. one night talking about anything under the sun. We talked about things from drama at school to our likes and dislikes and anything in between. That night, we forgot our worries for 5 hours and instead learned about each other and grew closer than ever before. It wasn’t a loud or