Lewis And Clark Friendship Essay

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Cooper King 11/23
Friendship could be named one of the most important things on Earth. Taking just a couple seconds you could probably name significant things in your life. Some of the biggest discovery’s or inventions have come from a couple of people having ideas and combining them and becoming friends to create said invention or discovery. One huge historic friendship that sticks out to me is Lewis and Clark. Another genre of friendships could be a fictional friendship from a book, for example Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Then a friendship in modern life would be Chance The Rapper and Donald Glover. The reasons for friendship are to enjoy yourself, and tell them anything. Like venting and getting things off your …show more content…

For example from a historic friendship way back in time Lewis and Clark. Lewis was appointed by president at the time Jefferson to be his Secretary-aide. Then a couple years later Lewis was chosen as commander of expedition. Lewis then writes to ask William Clark to join him on the expedition and share command. Clark accepted, the expedition was to find a water route linking the Columbia and Missouri rivers. This water link would connect the Pacific Ocean with the Mississippi River system, thus giving the new western land access to port markets out of the Gulf of Mexico and to eastern cities along the Ohio River and its minor tributaries. No easy task for two men. At the start of the expedition Lewis just turned 30 and Clark was 34 making them two very young men. In temperament Lewis and Clark were opposites. Lewis was introverted, melancholic, and moody. Then Clark was extroverted, even-tempered and gregarious. Both men were just about opposites in every situation, but as the saying goes opposites attract. Lewis having a better education possessed a philosophical, romantic, and speculative mind. Clark had a pragmatic mold, was more of a practical man of action. Each supplied vital …show more content…

In the book Tom Sawyer is great friends with Huckleberry fin. Huck admires Tom because they're so different. Sure, Tom has a stable home and a good upbringing but he's different from Huck in other ways. Where Tom is imaginative, Huck is practical. Where Tom always has his nose in a book, Huck runs away to the river or woods when he needs to escape. Where Tom is basically a good-hearted kid who's oblivious to moral issues, Huck is a boy on the verge of becoming a man by grappling with some really important questions. Examples would be the famous part in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Tom tricks a kid into painting the white fence for him saying its fun. Making his life and chores easier. Showing that Tom is smart and quick witted. Huck wishes he could come up with a story as good as Tom's. Tom would have crazy interesting stories that everyone in the town would want to hear including the kids. While Huck had decent ones but would never compare to Tom making him a bit jealous. Huck also wished he had such good plans like Tom always seemed to have. I think the reason Huck was as inclined or gifted as Tom in these situations was because he wished or wanted the talent without putting in the work necessary to do so. What made then such good literary friends was the fact they like Lewis and Clark were opposites for the most part. Huckleberry and Tom were also younger

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