A Separate Peace and Of Mice and Men - Real Friendship

friendly relationship is not something you learn in school. But if you havent learned the nitty-gritty of friendship, you really havent learned anything. - Muhammad Ali. \n\nFriendships scrape in many forms. They tot up out emotions in population that they did not have. They defend a vital social function on the way we behave and how we come out to realize who we argon. The novels A reprint Peace, by John Knowles, and Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, both(prenominal) takes us through the journey of friendship. This journey takes us through the emotions and demands that comes with a friendship. Jealousy is an emotion that has the power to break relationships. This negative emotion can be arrange in the novel A Separate Peace. element is really jealous of Finny. That is the main effort he jounced the limb that Finny was on, he treasured to be the mortal that Finny was. In the novel Gene states,I never forgot, and that even I put on his cordovan shoes, his pants, and I looked for and finally open his pink shirt...But when I looked into the reflect it was no remote patrician I had become, no lawsuit out of daydreams. I was Phineas, Phineas to the animation (Knowles 62). When Gene does this, he lets himself effluence the guilt that he got from mettlesome the limb and making Finny bust his legs. When he looked in the mirror and saw Finny, it showed that he was bonnie what he envied. He wanted to be Finny and putting on Finnys clothes do him feel like he was a step nigher to achieving that goal. Because Finny was in any case crippled later falling out of the tree, it also let gave Gene the nose out that he was on the said(prenominal) 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 from each one other. Friends rely on each other. When Finnys legs where shattered, he was not able to play sports anymore. So, he made Gene play them for hi...