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
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chest. Another reason is they are always there for you in your low and high moments in life; also they teach you life lessons from their past stories or advice. True friends are practically your second family. Friendship is a sensitive and hard subject to break down. The only way I can give a definition of friendship is to give examples of true friends.
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…
qualities that balanced their partnership. Their relationship is arguable one of the best in historic and maybe modern times. It was a rare example of two men with noble hearts and sharing responsibilities for the conduct of a dangerous enterprise without ever losing each other's respect or loyalty. Despite having such stress, hardship, and times were they could have easily bred jealousy, mistrust or contempt, they proved to be self-effacing brothers in command and leadership. During their long journey, there is not a single trace of a serious quarrel or dispute between them. Back in the 1800s that was a remarkable not having any tussles or fights with the two people the whole journey. After the journey came to a close Lewis was appointed Governor of the Louisiana Territory. Clark was promoted to Brigadier General and appointed to the Superintendence of Indian Affairs. Sadly at age 35 Lewis died tragically in October 1809 just 3 years after their expedition. Clark lived a long and productive life in St. Louis, dying September 1838, at age 68. He is buried in the Clark family plot. In tribute Lewis and Clark are recognized members of that generation of our young nation's heroes. These two friends will always live on in history as one of the best explores and friends. Another example of best buds from a young is from Mark twain’s famous books Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
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
giving them more of an urge to be jealous of someone just because they weren’t the complete package. This duo could be called the most famous pair in all American literature. While the one thing these two really have in common is they do both were orphans but Tom lives with his love aunt while Huckleberry has no home and his dad is the laughing stock of the town. Huck is the polar opposite of Tom. They connect because Tom wants Huck’s freedom in life he doesn’t like going to church and school and envies how free and easy he sees Huck’s life. Huck admires Tom's book learning and sees Tom as a standard of civilized behavior. When Tom tells Huck stories Huck just follows along and doesn’t ask question because of how fascinated he is with Tom. Another example of a real life friendship would be Penn and Teller. Penn and Teller are illusionists an illusionist creates illusions that people can’t explain. They are one of the best at what they do and have become very famous for it. They have been doing shows for the last 35 years. Just like the other two friendships they are two different people. They say in interviews they don’t really hang out much outside of their acts or performances. Penn is a tall big man that is very outgoing while Teller is an average to below average sized man who rarely ever talks. He is like the polar opposite of Penn but they bond so well after 35 years. Their shows are a duo of magic and comedy. Their friendship is strong because they cover all of the bases. I look at Penn and Teller like George and Lennie sort of. One of them handles the act and is the brains behind most things like George is while the other is there to assist or aid. Penn has said before he characterizes his relationship with tell as just a business partner and their relationship isn’t based off cuddly love and affection. He then goes on to say by many definitions of a friend Teller would and is his best friend after 35 years. “He was there to talk to when my mom and dad died he was there when I first had my kids, but were much more like two guys who own a dry cleaning business.” He goes on to gives examples of people who had affection for each other and they ended up falling in their careers later on while Penn and Teller just wanted to do a show together and they had more respect for each other than affection. Almost every interview is always Penn because teller is quiet and only speaks to people he is close to. So most stories you get a one of the story, but other Penn and Teller are always the same in regards to most things. Penn says he became his best friend through work and respect. Also that nothing happen if they get mad at each other just like if a co-worker and you are angry you aren’t as angry as if it was a best friend with affection. Penn does for the most part all of the lines said while Teller does a lot of the magic. While there are exceptions to everything that is how their shows mostly run. To define a friendship seems kind of bias or has way to many loophole or different answers. To show and or define a friendship I chose to give examples of friendships that I think are the epitome of a true friendship. I chose Lewis and Clark based off they had a huge adventure together and are one of the greatest historic friends. The next friendship was Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn they were a friends are both admired each other and had things the other person want. They ended up being friends’ spite being jealous. The other friendship from modern times is the illusionists Penn and Teller. Penn and Teller just come off physically polar opposites, but blend so well together. Being friends for thirty-five years and counting and still just look at it as a business co-worker. The thing after researching and writing about these examples is that the friendships I used for this and ones a scraped were polar opposite people and they just attracted like magnets. Lewis and Clark was opposites of each other one was well educated and stubborn while Clark was just a hand on guy physical guy with less of a temper and they clicked perfectly. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn for example Tom was raised in a home with no freedom unless he ignored his overseer at the time while Huck had nobody with him all the freedoms in the world and both wanted the other persons life. Penn and Teller had respect for each other they weren’t jealous like Tom and Huck, but Penn is huge in comparison to Teller height. Penn does almost all the talking while Teller does the magic. All these friendships have a couple things in common either they want something that their friend has or just are opposites of each other like magnets north and south they attract to each other. That to me is strange because they would have different interests in different things making hanging out or talking awkward or difficult to do but I guess that’s the secret to long and important friendships.
Huckleberry Finn – Complex Character Huckleberry Finn is a complex character. As this book progresses, so does Huck. Huck is about thirteen years old, from the low end of the white middle class. His father is a ruffian who disappears for months on end. This book starts off with Huck being `reformed' by the widow Douglas and therefore remains a marginalized member of society. He has not been brought up with the same social values as an average middle-class boy might be, but this helps to create Huck's unique personality. The way he has been brought up affects his traits, values, and relationships throughout the book. Although Huck's character progresses in this story his traits that he portrays at the end are very similar to those at the beginning. His ingenuity, morality, and intelligence are consistent throughout the story. Huck's ingenuity is shown throughout his clever actions. His decision to make his escape on the canoe look like a murder to hide his tracks is just one example, "And they'll follow that
Another reason that Huck looks up to Tom as a role model is that Huck feels Tom is more intelligent than himself. Huck is amazed by how brilliant Tom is. "What a head for just a boy to have! If I had Tom Sawyer's head I wouldn't trade it off to be a duke, nor mate of a steamboat, nor clown in a circus, nor nothing I can think of" (p. 236). It isn't simply that Tom is smarter. It is that Tom often makes Huck feel he isn't as smart. One example is when the two boys are trying to free Jim. Huck doesn't understand why they have to do things the hard way. That is when Tom says, "Oh, shucks, Huck Finn, if I was as ignorant as you I'd keep still" (p. 243). Tom also says, "Why, hain't you ever read any books at all?" (p. 242). It is true that Tom has more schooling than Huck, and this also plays a role into Huck's belief that Tom is smarter.
In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is a person to be admired. His caring attitudes and blunt honesty prove that he is a great person. Although Huck can be seen lying, cheating and stealing, he does these things out of necessity and as a result of his poor upbringing. These negative attributes don’t affect his overall high character.
In Mark Twain?s novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the main character, Tom, is best friends with Huck. Tom and Huck seem very similar. But of course, everyone has their differences. They both have many freedoms and experiences, which differ. Their friendship means different things to each kid. There is also the factor of experience and intelligence. The boys are similar and different in many ways, but I think that it does not effect their friendship.
The novel places realistic views and does not hold romantic value besides that of the character Tom Sawyer. Huck does not understand why Tom makes every task so complex yet, Huck is very admirable of Tom's ideas. Throughout the book Huck asks himself if Tom Sawyer would approve of the way he deals with certain matters. This shows dramatic irony because Tom would not be stuck in these situations that Huck is in, in turn adding to Huck's naivety.
...uckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are essentially polar opposites. Their opinions of civilization and rules, imagination, and control are so different that the two function as perfect foils of one another. When Mark Twain wrote Huck Finn he wanted a story that would make people take a closer look at what society was doing to a younger generation. The characters of Tom and Huck were carried over from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a much lighter, funnier, novel, but still worked to make his point. Twain wanted to show that people raised to be good citizens like Tom were growing up to be egotistical, cruel, brats, and that someone like Huck, who just wanted to help, has been taught that doing so will send him to hell. Between the two characters, it is easy to see which boy Mark Twain wants people to be more like, and his foil of Huck with Tom makes this even more apparent.
In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, you meet a rebellious young teen named Huck Finn. Huck is not your everyday hero, especially in the beginning of the novel, but slowly through the story his mature, responsible side comes out and he shows that he truly is the epitome of a hero. Huck is forced to make many crucial decisions, which could get him in serious trouble if not get him killed. Huck has natural intelligence, has street smarts, which are helpful along his adventures, and is assertive. Huck has always had to rely on himself to get through things because he is from the lowest levels of white society and his dad is known more or less as the "town drunk."
In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , Huckleberry Finn a homeless, uneducated boy is described as ¨the juvenile pariah of the village.¨ Huck is ¨hated and dreaded by all the mothers of the town.¨ Children are forbidden to associate with Huck. All of the people in the town dread Huck but they don't know what he's really like. Only two little boys in the town know the real Huck. There names are Tom Sawyer and Joe Harper. They both know that Huck is a caring person and not a bad nuisance. Huck´s behavior proves that, despite having no supportive family, he is a good person with admirable traits.
Friendship is an interpersonal relationship between two people that is mutually productive and can be characterized by mutual positive regard. Friendship should enhance the potential of each person involved and should only be productive. You must like each other in order to call it a friendship, and
The similarities and differences between Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are two novels that focus on the lives of two different young men living in the same town. Both young men are the main characters of each novel. Tom’s character was based much on the life of the author Mark Twain. Both lost their mother at a young age and both were too smart for their own good. The novels are similar and different in many ways. One way that they are similar are the titles. Both titles give us an idea that the book is about two different boy’s adventure. Another way is their faith both boys reject religion. Huck reason is that when he prayed for what he wanted, he didn’t get anything so he thinks Christian faith and praying is pointless. Both boys personalities are very different practically opposites. Tom is a very unpredictable, uncooperative, and lazy child with a carefree attitude who gets a thrill out of fighting and playing. He is very intelligent for his age even though he smoked. He’s a mischievous child who lives by the quote “Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do ” if there’s something wrong to be done he’s going to be doing it. Deep down inside is a boy who has a very low self esteem and trys to hide it. Tom feels unloved even though he has a family and whenever he feels unloved he imagines his own funeral and questions his existence. Probably that’s the reason why he a troubled child he doesn’t feel that he’s living for any good reason, so he might as well be bad.
Friendship is the most wonderful relationship that anyone can have. Ideally a friend is a person who offers love and respect and will never leave or betray us. Friends can tell harsh truths when they must be told. There are four different types of friends: True friends, Convenient friends, Special interest friends, and historical friends. To have friendship is to have comfort. In times of crisis and depression, a friend is there to calm us and to help lift up our spirits.
Friends are people one can trust. They are there to provide encouragement and to be ones support system. The main benefit of friendship is having people to whom one can vent to, good or bad. This builds trust between two individuals. When this trust is built deep into a relationship, friends can support one another when one is feeling down.
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” has been a strong factor in the formation of alliances through ought the ages. Influential and charismatic leaders have conquered great empires and scored promotions with help from friends, all of which might not be possible alone. On the other hand, friendship does not only benefit our professional lives, but assists in emotional development beginning as early on as childhood. “We evolved to make friends and tell them things” (Akst 88). Friendships provide children with more than just fun playmates. While interacting with friends, children learn many social skills, like how to communicate and cooperate. It is evident in our history books as well as everyday life how one is effected by the benefits, or lack
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.
Although it might not be evident to himself, Huck causes the reader to see that "sivilization", in their treatment of blacks especially, is not civilized at all. Every person Huck and Jim come across seems to just be following someone else blindly, as the whole country were some sort of mob. In the last few chapters, Tom Sawyer is re-introduced and the reader is left to examine how different environments: "sivilization" and nature (the river), have affected the children's growth. It is distinctly evident that Huck has turned out to be the one with a clear and intelligent mind, and Tom, although he can regurgitate worthless facts about Louis XVI and Henry VIII, shows no real sign of maturity. "The first time I catched up to Tom, private, I asked him what was his idea, time of the evasion?- what it was he planned to do if the evasion worked out all right and he managed to set a nigger free that was already free before? And he said, what he had planned in his head, from the start, if we got Jim out, all safe, was for us to run him down the river, on the raft, and have adventures plumb to the mouth" (p.360). Huck has always thought of Tom as more intelligent than himself, but he cannot understand how Tom could toy with Jim's life in such a way. For much time, Huck is! without the river and it is though his mind clouds; he follows along with Tom playing a sick game until the end when he is once again threatened with being "sivilized".