Friendship

A Responce to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Shading your eyes from the afternoon sun, you exit the school building. Your eyes instantly seek out your friends, for you can’t wait to tell them about your experiences of the day. You know that your friends will listen, that they’ll cheer you up when you mention your difficult math test, and that they’ll congratulate you on your perfect spelling homework without resentment. Friends are always there for you to confide and trust in, even when you’ve lost all hope in yourself. Friends will offer a new vision of the world and its problems, and will help you see through their eyes. No matter what kind of situation you get yourself into, friends will get you out.

What would happen if there wasn’t such thing as friendship? If there was no one in the world to relax around, feel secure around, and be yourself around? You would be swallowed up by the others around you, scared to expose yourself, scared to be who you truly are. The world would be weighing down upon you, and there would be nothing to do about it, nobody to listen and care. Eventually, friendless, you would be driven to the point of madness and destruction, and there would still be no one to help. Keeping your friends close to you so you won’t lose them is very important, and is a lifelong process throughout many sets of friends.

Luckily, in the romantic world of Tom Sawyer, friends are plentiful and easy to come by. In the novel, Tom has two good friends, Joe Harper and Huck Finn. They accompany him on his various adventures, no matter how ridiculous they are. Whenever Tom gets an idea, he goes immediately to his friends and shares it with them. This proves that even though Tom is innocent and mischievous, he understands the values and benefits of friendship. Without the company of Huck and Joe, Tom’s plans would certainly fail. Friends help you to succeed in your dreams, no matter how foolish they are.

However, you don’t need to have millions of friends to be happy. Sometimes, all you need is a best friend or two, as long as they’re people you really trust. Tom Sawyer didn’t have all the children in his school as his friends, but he continues to be blissfully happy with the friends he does have. As long as you keep your friends with you and treat them with love and respect, you can accomplish anything.