A Separate Peace and Of Mice and Men - Real Friendship

friendly relationship is non something you learn in school. But if you havent learned the content of friendship, you really havent learned anything. - Muhammad Ali. \n\nFriendships rally in many forms. They incur out emotions in good deal that they did not have. They scarper a vital subprogram on the way we behave and how we love to realize who we are. The novels A soften Peace, by John Knowles, and Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, both(prenominal) takes us through the jaunt of friendship. This journey takes us through the emotions and demands that comes with a friendship. Jealousy is an emotion that has the king to break relationships. This negative emotion can be make up in the novel A Separate Peace. agent is very jealous of Finny. That is the main sympathy he jounced the limb that Finny was on, he wanted to be the psyche that Finny was. In the novel Gene states,I never forgot, and that eventide I put on his cordovan shoes, his pants, and I looked for and f inally plant his pink shirt...But when I looked into the reflect it was no remote blue blood I had become, no geek out of daydreams. I was Phineas, Phineas to the life-time (Knowles 62). When Gene does this, he lets himself come off the guilt that he got from bound the limb and making Finny break his legs. When he looked in the mirror and saw Finny, it showed that he was meet what he envied. He wanted to be Finny and putting on Finnys clothes do him feel like he was a step circumferent to achieving that goal. Because Finny was in any case crippled later falling out of the tree, it also let gave Gene the wiz that he was on the resembling level as Finny or even better. \nIn contrast, in the novel, Of Mice and Men, jealousy plays no role in Lennie and Georges friendship. They both travel together and are friends because they want to and they care for to to each one one other. Friends rely on each other. When Finnys legs where shattered, he was not able to play sports an ymore. So, he made Gene play them for hi...