Friendships can change the outcome of a novel. Depending on who the main character sides with and who that character makes friends with can change if the character overcomes their obstacles or not. Friendship and love is when people caring and helpful to each other. Also its when both help each other without their own intentions. In Peak by Roland Smith, Peak views love and friendship as being helpful and caring, but when he is forced to go with his father, and finds out people who are his supposedly his friends are only helping him for their own special intention, he has to rely on loyalty and trust to find the people that actually care and love him.
Peak views love and friendship as people who are caring and helpful. Peak’s stepfather tries every connection he has to help him get out of being punished for climbing a building. His whole family cries when he has to leave the country as his punishment. Peak states, “He [Peak’s step-father] looked at Mom and the twins, and for the first time ever I saw tears in his eyes. ‘We’re going to miss you’” (Smith 30). Peak never viewed his step-father as someone he loves, not until he sees him crying and sad because Peak has to leave. Peak now views love as people who care for him and love him. He now begins to care for and love his step-father, as a real father. The way Peak views friendship is very important because it defines who he thinks are his friends, and who loves him.
The obstacles Peak faces are serving a sentence, betrayal, climbing Mount Everest, and people who are helping him for their own purposes like his father. Peak has to overcome the obstacle of serving his sentence for climbing a skyscraper. The sentence was something along the lines of he ...
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Peak had to face climbing Mount Everest, his selfish father, and other people trying to get rid of him to finally know who is really his friends and family, and that friends are those who are caring and helpful without being so to gain something. Peak figures out his step-father cares and loves him more than his real father. Peak choose to help a friend rather than of getting famous, and that his obstacles especially Mount Everest, brought out people’s real intentions. Without friendship and love you couldn’t overcome obstacles. You would not know who to trust. You need friendship and love to help and be helped by people, and you need friends and family to have happy times with, and to overcome bad times with.
Works Cited
Smith, Roland. Peak. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Children's, 2007. Print.
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