'An Invisible Thread': The Effect Of Friendship

The Effect of Friendship
As the Chinese proverb about an invisible thread says, some people are destined to meet each other. This was the case in the excerpt from An Invisible Thread, written by Laura Schroff, as her close friend, Maurice, recounts the details of when he, as a young boy, met Laura during the time of when he was begging on the streets for change. As the story continues, both Laura and Maurice use a first-person point of view to share what their experience in the relationship has been, and how far they have come. As a result of this, they help us understand their relationship to a greater extent by expressing their true feelings and how they benefited from the relationship.
To begin, Laura and Maurice’s relationship can be further

One example can be from when Maurice recounts, “...and I was very hungry that day and I asked this lady, ‘Miss, can you spare some change?’...She looked and came back and took me to McDonald’s. We ate then walked around Central Park; she took me to Haagen-Dazs and then we played some games…without you, I could not be the man I am today.” This indicates that he did not ask Laura for change because he wanted to leech off of her, but instead because he was hungry. Even then, he was polite, which most likely played a part in Laura deciding to help him. When describing his future, Maurice says that he “could not be the man I am today,” and by using “could,” which tells whether something would be possible, he means that his future would be entirely nonexistent. After he asks for the change, instead of just giving it to him, she spends the rest of the day with him. Through this, she buys him a meal, showing how she took time out of her day for him. Furthermore, she takes him to even more places, meaning that she did not only spend time with him to feed him but to also make his day enjoyable. This matters because since she took the time to take him out for a meal and other activities, it shows the readers how she benefited him by not only making him happy but also by making him full. Even after, she continued to keep him full, which the readers can infer because he is still living to tell his story. Without her, he may not have made it to adulthood, let alone have enough money to support his family. This goes back to when he uses the word “man” to describe who he is, since he may not have been alive. Because of the impact that Laura made on Maurice’s life, he went from asking for money to making his own, allowing him to have the life he had always hoped for. After Maurice says this,