Friendship in Of Mice and Men and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian

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Friendship in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie and the essay on Friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. -- (Khalil Gibran)

Once I was looking on the internet that what is friends and what is friendship, since I never know what it was or never really read a definition of them. I was looking all over the place and I found this:

“No one knows the exact definition of "Friendship"; however, they do have their own way to tell if they have a friend or not.”

From the bedtime stories parents read to their children when they are going to bed, to the books students ready in high school, or the books adults ready have one most common element friendship. The history in the American literature three were many books, essays and songs about great friendships some are still famous and some are lost, in the era where people become friends by following each other on Instagram or sending request on Facebook. Mostly all persons on earth have a best friend and people say that it is hard to fine because a best friend should be some on whom you can always count on and that a person always count on you too. Sometimes having right person as your friends can help you but at the same time if you are in companionship of a bad person it can hurt you too. Who is the bad person and who is the good person is totally up to the person’s personal choice?

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Mignon, Charles W., and H. Rose. CliffsNotes on Emerson's Essays. 01 May 2014

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Van Kirk, Susan. CliffsNotes on Of Mice and Men. 01 May 2014

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References

Steinbeck, J (1937) Of Mice and Men.

Covici Friede.

Alexie, S (September 2007) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Emerson, R Friendship.

Spark Notes Editors. (2007). Spark Note on Of Mice and Men. Retrieved April

30, 2014, from http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/micemen/

Mignon, Charles W., and H. Rose. CliffsNotes on Emerson's Essays. 01 May 2014

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Van Kirk, Susan. CliffsNotes on Of Mice and Men. 01 May 2014

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