2. Friendship: Friendship is the mutual relationship between two people that is made up of countless aspects. It is a bond of support and loyalty to one another. People that are friends use each other for strength and encouragement. Friendships also make everyday life exciting and interesting.
Quotes:
“It’s you, pal,” Finny said to me at last, “just you and me.” He and I started back across the fields, preceding the others like two seigneurs. We were the best of friends at that moment. - Chapter 1 In this quote, Finny is shown expressing his compassion and loyalty to his best friend. He makes it obvious how important Gene is to him and that he can’t live without him. Phineas also shows that the relationship they share with each other isolates
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He doesn’t believe in the many things he reads about, like the war, and the things he hears from his teachers. One person that he does have full belief in, though, is his best friend Gene. In this quote, he says that there is no way he couldn’t believe in his friend and that he believes he knows him better than anyone else. If Phineas really does know more about his friend than anyone, than he clearly must know the truth about his injury. He shows that he does know that his friend put this injury upon him, and understands what forced him to act in such way. Even while understanding the great deal of hardship Gene has given him, Phineas still proceeds to express his trust and loyalty to his friend. He explains how important Gene is in his life and how well he knows him. By doing this, it’s clear that sooner or later he’s going to face the truth. Phineas knows what happened to him, but really isn’t acknowledging it as a fact. This doesn’t continue for much longer, until Phineas finally cracks and accepts the truth. When this finally does happen, though, he tragically passes …show more content…
My dog’s name is Gus. He is an goldendoodle and is a medium sized dog. Whenever I get home, I can always count on him scratching the door, waiting for me to enter. Once I get inside, he will then begin to lick my legs and wag his tail uncontrollably. This unique relationship I have with him brings me a great deal of happiness and joy. It makes me feel great to rub his stomach or feed him one of his favorite treats. He then overwhelms me with praise and love. It wasn’t easy to get over the death of my old dog, but Gus has helped fill this void in my life. Gus is one of the few people that I can count on one hundred percent of the time and seek happiness from without the least exertion of energy. All people should have a pet like
Gene believes that Finny and he hate each other, until he realizes Finny’s pureness, which Gene can not stand. At first, Gene believes that Finny wants to exceed him, and that the two are rivals. Everyone at Devon likes Finny. The teachers adore him, the students look up to him, the athletes aspire to be like him. Finny has no enemies. Gene, however, sees through Finny’s “cover” and thinks they hate each other. He hates Finny for beating A. Hopkins swimming record, and for making him jump from the tree, and for being better than Gene. When Finny takes Gene to the beach, Finny tells Gene that they are “best pals.” Gene does not respond to Finny’s sincere gesture because he thinks Finny wants to sabotage him. Gene realizes that he and Finny are “even after all, even in enmity. The deadly rivalry was on both sides after all” (46). Gene has no proof of Finny’s hatred, but Gene needs to find a way to be even with Finny. Once he decides they are even, he must now surpass Finny, so he jounces the limb. Gene’s hatred takes over, only now he realizes that the hatred only comes from one side. Finny is pure. He never hates Gene; he loves Gene like he loves everyone else. Ge...
“some kind of hold”(9) over Gene. The fact that Gene lets Finny talk him into things
First, I believe that Gene and Finny were not sincerely friends throughout the novel due to their relationship being driven by competitiveness. Along with the competitive atmosphere came jealously, envy and enmity. Gene created a rivalry between him and Finny. Since Finny was
Gene feels both love and hate for his best friend, Phineas, worshipping and resenting Phineas’s athletic and moral superiorities. Gene simply cannot handle the fact that Finny is so perfect. As he puts it, "Phineas could get away with anything” (Knowles 18). Gene then creates an internal rivalry with Finny, convincing himself that Finny is deliberately attempting to ruin his schoolwork. Internal conflict Gene deals with reaches its maximum when Finny proposes a “double jump”(19) from the tree.
...e up to. Gene feels he has an advantage over Finny, the enemy, because he feels like he knows how Finny’s mind works. To Gene Finny is a spy trying to infiltrate his schedule and destroy his goals of being the best student at Devon.
by yourself, and in this teen-age period in life the proper person is your best pal.” (40) From this Finny formed an idealistic bond between him and Gene. Using this high to present a low, Knowles hides the evil truth going through Gene’s mind about his friend, thus enabling him to jounce Phineas from the tree without thinking.
This quote shows their friendship. Gene didn’t understand why Finny talked him into things that he knew he shouldn't have done. Finny influenced Gene. This wasn't necessarily a good thing. Sometimes Finny helped Gene overcome his fears and help him become more social. But sometimes, it was a bad thing, like jumping from the tree. Much of his hesitation over jumping has less to do with a fear of dying than a fear of subordination, of blindly following Finny's desires
...er, Gene’s activities demonstrate gradual escalation. Obsessed with Finny, Gene seeks to transform himself into Finny to finally be equals.
In the early pages of the novel, Finny confesses that Gene is his best friend. This is considered a courageous act as the students at Devon rarely show any emotion. And rather than coming back with similar affection, Gene holds back and says nothing. Gene simply cannot handle the fact that Finny is so compassionate, so athletic, so ingenuitive, so perfect. As he put it, "Phineas could get away with anything." (p. 18) In order to protect himself from accepting Finny's compassion and risking emotional suffering, Gene creates a silent rivalry with Finny, and convinced himself that Finny is deliberately attempting to ruin his schoolwork. Gene decides he and Finny are jealous of each other, and reduces their friendship to cold trickery and hostility. Gene becomes disgusted with himself after weeks of the silent rivalry. He finally discovers the truth, that Finny only wants the best for Gene, and had no hidden evil intentions. This creates a conflict for Gene as he is not able to deal with Finny's purity and his own dark emotions. On this very day Finny wants to jump off of the tree branch into the Devon river at the same time as Gene, a "double jump" (p. 51), he says, as a way of bonding. It was this decision, caused by Finny's affection for Gene and outgoing ways that resulted in drastic change for the rest of his life.
Gene begins to realize Finny is not above him, and rather thinks to himself, “You and Phineas are even already. You are even in enmity. You are both coldly driving ahead for yourselves alone. You did hate him for breaking that school swimming record but so what? He hated you for getting an A in every course. . . .
Analysis: This quote is based on the theme of envy. It is clear that Gene feels that Phineas can get away with anything. The reader can tell that Gene hate him because of this.
a best friend like Finny is an accolade and he should see it as an achievement. However, this transparent excuse of Gene's maturity at this point, portrays a very young, foolish, and selfish young man. "It was hypnotism. I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn't help envying that a little, which was perfectly normal."(Knowles p. 25) Here we see Gene as a simply confused young man who doesn't know the real value of friendship, and can't refuse a feeling of envy towards his so called "best friend.
Friendship is an interpersonal relationship between two people that is mutually productive and can be characterized by mutual positive regard. Friendship should enhance the potential of each person involved and should only be productive. You must like each other in order to call it a friendship, and
Friendship is the most wonderful relationship that anyone can have. Ideally a friend is a person who offers love and respect and will never leave or betray us. Friends can tell harsh truths when they must be told. There are four different types of friends: True friends, Convenient friends, Special interest friends, and historical friends. To have friendship is to have comfort. In times of crisis and depression, a friend is there to calm us and to help lift up our spirits.
Friendships are one of the most important things you can get out of life. It’s something that everyone has to have because without it we would all go insane. Just think if no one talked to each other and we never made friends, this world would be a ticking time bomb. Studies say human need friendships and love to survive. So friendship is a big part of your life.