The Contrariety Of Two Friends
Everyone has friends. Some are so alike that it is shocking. They seem to walk, talk and even eat the same. But others are so very different that it is an absolute wonder that they can even stand each other, let alone be friends. That is how it is in the friendship of Sandra and Nancy. They differ in everything from their views on cleaning, their views on fun and even in their views on religion.
The two girls are the best of friends but they are very different, even in the views on how they clean. Sandra is very neat and tidy. Everything must be in its place at all times. Nancy on the other hand is extremely messy. Wherever things happen to land is where they should belong. Sandra cleans her room at least once a day. While Nancy's room is lucky to be cleaned once a month. When Sandra cleans, it is a lengthy procedure. Sometimes she will spend hours just cleaning her room. When Nancy cleans, it is done as quickly as humanly possible. If she can get everything shoved under her bed in five minutes then she is happy. The thought of even sleeping in a messy room makes Sandra extremely uncomfortable. Though Nancy can't stand to be in a spotless room, with out the urge to mess something up.
Since the two girls can hardly stand to be in each other's rooms, they frequently go out. But even in their choices of a good time, they have severe differences. Sandra is very quiet and shy. She doesn't like to be around a lot of people that she doesn'...
The two girls became friends while they were in primary school, and they preferred the other's home life. Sula liked the "oppressive neatness"(29) while Nel "preferred Sula's wooly house"(29). They became inseparable, understanding the other's thoughts and actions, one completing the other. "They found relief in each other's personality"(53). Nel was always the calm one, in control, while Sula was uncontrollable. To save Nel from harassing boys, Sula once cut the tip of her finger off to scare them away, and when Sula accidentally threw a neighborhood boy into the water, Nel remained calm after they watched him drown.
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From a young age most people have gone through many relationships with other people who were not their family. Thus, we often acknowledge these relationships as friendships. But the word friend is too broad, so people categorize their friends to several types. In her book “Necessary Losses: The Lovers, Illusions, Dependencies and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow”, Judith Viorst divided friendships to six types. Those are convenience friends, special Interest friends, historical friends, crossroad friends, cross-generation friends and close friends. In my life, I have been friend with many people since I was little. Although I have met all six kinds of friend of Viorst, convenience friends and close friends are two important kinds of friends in my life.
Due to her major in Biology, Samantha’s courses were Biology of Organisms, Microbiology, Pre-Calculus and Academic Writing. This was a challenge for Samantha because there was limited personal time and extravagant duration of school, homework and studying. In spite of the dragging nights at the library, Samantha kept up with studies, and had a thorough understanding of what each course was referring to. In despite of Samantha’s first year in college, she learned a significant amount about her morals and the way she was raised. She came into controversy when she realized that not every individual had the amount of discipline and respect that she was enriched in at a young age. Nevertheless, when she had a dispute with her roommate, Jocelyn, Samantha didn’t understand why her levels of sincerity and gratitude were different than her own. Samantha was taught when she was an adolescent to apologize by declaring how to say sorry by explaining what she did wrong. Whereas, Jocelyn would announce her apology due to thinking that is what Samantha wanted to hear; however, not because she believed that she did something regretful. Although, despite their opposition of consideration towards sincerity, Samantha realized their differences and decided that arguing, hostility and physical contact was not key to this situation, which reminded her of a
The essays “Neat People vs Sloppy People” by Suzanne Britt and “Batting Clean-Up and Striking out” by David Berry take a whole new look on the dreaded aspects of cleaning. Britt expresses the different lifestyles of sloppy people to the infamous neat people. While Berry takes gender roles and compares them side by side in order to see the differences between how male/females clean. Both authors illustrate distinct differences and similarities between certain personalities that result in different lifestyles and priorities. Both Britt and Berry express the characteristics that come with these different personalities using humor and exaggeration but, Britt shows bias towards sloppy people while Berry treats both genders with fairness.
The Danish philosopher and poet Søren Aabye Kierkegaard once said, “Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship”. John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men is full of adversity; between having to run away from an angry mob pursuing them after an unfortunate incident in Weed, Lennie’s developmental problems, and their challenging lives as migrant workers, this novel definitely shines a light on how adversity helps George Milton and Lennie Smalls maintain their strong and genuine friendship. Knot Your Friend applies symbolism and characterization to elicit the idea that a strong friendship can get one through even the most challenging hardships.
The chapter Maid to Order of Global Women focus was on the work done by the “cleaning ladies.” The chapter goes in detail about the degrading connotation that the words maid and cleaning lady have and how they impact the lives of women who make a living of cleaning homes. This chapter made me feel very guilty because it mentions how housework is most of the time gender specific. Mothers pick up after husbands and their children without them noticing the effort that is put my the mother. The husband and the children get the idea that everything gets made and if they spill something someone is sure to clean it up. My mother recently began to work full time and still comes home to clean the house and our mess. I sometimes leave things dirty knowing that my mother will clean them. My mothers work does not end when she leaves work. I am responsible only for my room and what I make dirty but sometimes I don't do it and my mother will clean it for me.
In Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, the story follows Ruth and Lucille as they pass through the care of their mother, grandmother, great-aunts, and finally their mother’s transient sister, Sylvie. While Ruth is generally passively accepting of the care or lack thereof that she receives from these women, no matter how unconventional, Lucille purposefully sets herself against Sylvie. After existing outside of the boundaries that society imposes for the majority of her adult life, Sylvie is unable to provide the structured normality to which Lucille so desperately cleaves. In their own methods of seeking happiness, Sylvie prefers a fluid way of housekeeping, while Lucille needs strict adherence to convention. The polar relationship that exists between Sylvie and Lucille serves to illuminate that while society as a whole is more comfortable when everything is separated into rigid order and divided by strict boundaries, categories detract from the happiness of all individuals regardless of whether they attempt to fit within or reject them.
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Notherpundit argues that thinkers, like Emerson and Cicero, believe that we should not need our friends and that we should be able to do equally well without them. I disagree with the first part of Notherpundit’s argument because I believe that thinkers, who advocate for self-reliance and social nonconformity, are not against people needing their friends. These thinkers simply argue that we should not conform to our friends and that we should develop a better approach to friendship, one that does not involve conformity. According to Emerson, we should trust our own intuition and not jeopardize our individuality for the sake of fitting in with others, such as our friends. In order to do this, our concern for ourselves must outweigh our concern for others. For instance, Emerson exclaims that “what I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think” (Self-Reliance, paragraph 9). Thus, we should not lessen ourselves for the sake of making our friends feel comfortable or let what our friends think of us get in the way of expressing our true thoughts and feelings. Instead, Emerson believes that we should be authentically ourselves at all times, never
“No one knows the exact definition of "Friendship"; however, they do have their own way to tell if they have a friend or not.”
Catherine initially looks up to Isabella and considers herself lucky to have found such a good friend (p.19 NA). Isabella and Catherine’s friendship grows very quickly, unlike that of Catherine and Eleanor, which progresses much more gradually. Isabella is very free with her friendship, professing to do anything for her friends, even when she has known them only a short time. In contrast, Eleanor takes her time to get to know Catherine. She is far more sophisticated than Isabella and does not jump into a friendship without getting to know someone first.
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