Short Essay About Friendship

Have you ever wondered how a friendship can help someone emotionally when they’re in a tough situation? Friendships can often provide support to those who struggle with personal or family issues and to give hope in those situations. The short story “Zebra” by Chaim Potok, talks about what a healing friendship can do for people who are emotionally beaten down in life. Adam (a.k.a Zebra), the main character in the story, experiences depression due to the lack of friendships with his schoolmates after he was hit by a car and was temporarily handicapped from his injuries. Now he must try to cope without any real friendship ties as his injuries heal. Will he be able to find a new relationship before it’s too late? “A huge rushing shadow appeared…

In the short story, “The Chain” by Tobias Wolff, the author shows the audience the true meaning of friendship. Gold and his cousin, Tom Rourke, show different kinds of acts of friendship. Rourke was there for Gold when he killed the dog who attacked Anna, Gold returned the favor for Rourke as he smashed the person’s car who hit Rourke’s car. The true meaning of friendship lies between Gold and Rourke by the sacrifices they make for each other. They both are there by each other’s side and they do…

Friendships nowadays are nothing more than an illusion because of the advance of technology; from the description of William Deresiewicz, author of the article “Faux Friendship.” Deresiewicz said that friendship has become both all and nothing when modern technology like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other social media is destroying the friendship. Deresiewicz states that while people are friends with everybody, no matter if they know them or not, we have not understood the true value of a true…

mum forces him to befriend a girl named Rachel who has been diagnosed with stage 4 leukemia. The film overall is not about cancer but explores the main themes of friendship and life itself. One of the huge themes presented in this film is the authentic friendship between Greg and Rachel, and it’s goes against cliches because they do not fall in love and love relationships are very common in films. Greg’s character lacks confidence and pride in himself. He wants to avoid enemies in…

Friendship is a relationship between two people based on many different factors. A true friendship is built on accountability and trust. Sometimes, children grow up together and know each other for a long time, while other relationships are relatively newer and have only been around for a short period of time. In the novel Dead Girls Don’t Lie, Jennifer Shaw Wolf creates an accurate illustration of both friendships based on how long they’ve been around. The longer one has been acquainted, the…

acquired, and how it is related to both happiness (eudaimonia) and friendships. Overall, Aristotle is addressing the questions of: “What is a human being’s telos (purpose)?” and “What is the highest good?” It is by answering these questions that we will be able to see how Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is related to both Socrates and Epictetus’ philosophy, not to mention how it has contributed to my understanding of generosity, and virtue overall. Let us start off by examining the question of…

Friendship A familiar term for all of us ‘Friendship’, is the relationship between people. Many people say that they can’t live without friends. Ofcourse, as all other living things, we need our kind to live. But its a controversial topic that we need or we just like to communicate and to socialize. Nowadays, friendship is seperated to some subdivions such as; real friends, long friendships and ofcourse BFF’s which means ‘best friend forever’. These subdivions are for the people who say friend…

change our outlook on life as well as change the way we live in a negative or positive way. Friendships is the unit that many look to in their times of need, for advice, or just someone to talk to in general. However in this world these “friendships” that exist “overlook philia, the slower-burning and longer lasting complement” (Akst 84). Askt brings about the idea of all of the “friends” that one may have but the friendship that we possess is “diluted” and will not fulfill the true meaning of…

Much like everything else, relationships evolve; Allan Frederick and mine is no exceptions. Even though I would consider Allan one of my best friends, it is not too hard to remember a time where we weren 't that close. Through painstaking arguments and joyous times, our relationship has matured from mere acquaintances to good friends in four-ish years. If I am going to get into the nitty gritty of our friendship we have to go to the very beginning. At first, Allan was only a friend of a…

Aristotle-Nicomachean Ethics VIII-IX ‘Friendship’ In this paper, I will consider Aristotle arguments of friendship as presented in the Nicomachean Ethics VIII-IX. I will analyze and discuss the Aristotle prescription of what friendship is, its role in the life of every individual and the society as whole, as well as what people are supposed to focus for them to have a beneficial win-win relationship. According to Aristotle & Roger (142), Friendship is the existence of goodwill between two…