Relationships In Crispin And Short Stories

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Relationships are strange. As we all know, everyone has a relationship with at least someone. Usually, people adapt to the person in their relationship, thus changing them. However, people can have different types of changes. We can have a negative or positive impact on the person we have a relationship with. For example, people can gain courage, as the person with them experiences a dangerous situation, and handles it bravely. We can just say that when people are in a relationship, each person impacts each other in one way or another, positive or not. Some examples are provided from the book, Crispin and some short stories. For the first example, there is a connection in which characters grow stronger and less, meek and cowardly.

However, while she is feeding the cats, an old man mocks her and tries to stop her from feeding the cats. “Woman! He called. “What are you doing with that sack of food?” “I’m feeding the cats!” shouted Mikila. “What does it look like to you?” “It looks like a foolish woman,” replied the man rudely, “meddling where she doesn’t belong.” As we can see here. Basically, she shows strength. Here, we see the man is mocking the poor woman, but however, she stands strong to him. Mikala needs courage to stand up to mocking and jeering. It would be pretty difficult to stand up for the right thing if everyone embarrasses you. Basically, the man is her John Aycliffe, as in the book Crispin. Crispin here, has almost no courage in the beginning. He couldn’t stand up to John Aycliffe, while he was being pushed around. “To look on John Aycliffe was the hardest of all. His black bearded face-hard, sharp eyes and frowning lips-forever scowled at me.” (Pg 3).He just lost his mother, and

Sometimes, people need encouragement to grow. Another example was Giving Special Needs Kids a Chance to form Friendships. During that article there are two kids that don’t know each other at first, and become best buddies. During that time, they suffered many hardships and more… Just as Crispin and Bear struggled to have a relationship with each other in the beginning. However, the problem is that we have is that one of the people in the relationship is either shy, and doesn’t know things. “Nicole Giambalvo and Kathryn Dungan hat met together three times, but Dungan hadn’t spoken to her yet. Giambalvo was worried that she wouldn’t be able to connect with Dungan.” (Giving Special Needs Kids a Chance to form Friendships) We have a problem here. Here, Dungan is having problems connecting, and Kathryn right now doesn’t really know how to help her. But as time goes on, both girls learn to trust each other and become friends. Before you know it, they are best buddies! “Now they count down the days each week until they can see each other again on the baseball field.” We see that they have formed a bond. Kathryn has helped Dungan change, from being an introverted shy thing, to having an amazing friend, and creating a joyous memory. Without Kathryn meeting Dungan, Dungan may have never had a best buddy, or even a friendship. However, this relationship helped Dungan,and created a better life for her. A similar