Friends

My Best Friend is Gone The nerve racking mystery of, why, why would she do this to herself. Why would she leave me here alone with no one, why? This brilliant story was written by Gayle Forman. “I Was Here” is an amazing book. I would give this book at least 4 stars. I would not recommend this to ages under 13. “I Was Here” is a heart breaking, traumatic and moving story all at the same time. Its about an 18 or 19 year old girl that had just suffered through a tremendous loss. The main…

In fact, the first line of the tune reads, “All my friends are heathens, take it slow.” From the start, we can understand that something feels wrong about the way he describes his friends. The part where he sings “take it slow” gives us the idea that these people do not mix well with others they don’t know or understand. You might ask, “Who are these friends?” To my analyzation, I interpret his friends as anyone who has been emotionally and mentally damaged; something we can’t…

yellow, she looked pale and frail. Who is this girl? That’s not the girl I met in 7th grade. The girl I met was exuberant, rambunctious, vivacious and hilarious. Somehow, this new girl before me like night and day was the one I considered to be my best friend. “I wanted to tell you before but I thought you would judge me,” Harshita finally admitted. “I want to stop but I can’t.” She just finished telling me that she was bulimic. When those words poured out her mouth I had felt sick to my…

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” (Jane Austen). As you go through your life, you meet new people and say goodbye to the ones you have known. There are the acquaintances, the frenemies the close friends, and the best friend. These types of friends will either stick with you or leave. Nonetheless, you as a person should be able to interpret who is who. You never know, it might just help you in…

Why are friends more of an influence on other friends that parents are? Friends are a more powerful influence on children than parents are because they think they know everything. The reason friends are more of an influence because they hang out with them everyday and look up to them. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Dill had a big influence on Jem and Scout because they looked up to him. Jem and Scout will believe Dill because they think he is smart and knows everything. In the book Dill says…

Tomi is a friendly Japanese boy who is trying to bring up his father’s sunken boat. Tomi is trying to pull this off with the help of his friends. Some adjectives that describe Tomi are determined, smart, friendly. Tomi is determined. Tomi gets his friends and his grandfather “Ojii-Chan” to make a plan to raise the voat. They try all kinds of ideas and work to lighten the boat so that it can be raised. They borrowed some marine pontoon boats to lift the hull, and they were successful because in…

There are several people I spend most of my time with. The people I spend my time with is my friends, siblings, and parents. All these important members of my life all want me to succeed in life. They all have ups and downs. There are always pros and cons. First, my siblings are the most loyal members of life. I know no matter what anyone of my siblings will support me. They won’t ever judge me for my stupid life decisions. I can rely on them being there whenever I am in need or am at a low.…

Everybody has that friend that ends up dragging everyone along when they’re dead set on something, for me that person was my best friend Lexy. The summer after my senior year was when Lexy and I decided to make a list, well she decided to make a list. It was like a bucket list, and we wrote down all the things we wanted to do together that summer before we started college. We were finally graduated from high school and excited to finally be adults and have some freedom. It’s the friends you have…

that it is defined by our family and friends. Friends and family are obviously influential in a person’s life, identity included. Parents push their children to behave in certain ways, friends dare each other to do asinine tasks, both result in identity changes. One quote from Valerie Ulene’s A Teen’s Friends Are a Powerful Influence states, “The influences that friends exert over each other is truly powerful…”(Ulene). Ulene’s statement explains how friends can drastically influence each…

for equality and whites fought against them. Racism is seen in the comic book The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long, Jim Demonakos, and Nate Powell. It demonstrates the civil rights fight between blacks and whites during the post-war era. Comic books during and after the World war two were very popular…