Friendship In Gansworth's If I Ever Get Of Here

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“One of the most beautiful qualities about friendship is to understand and to be understood”. Friendship is one of many building blocks in life.Although some friendships may be lower on the building it doesn’t mean it been there to support oneself as they continue to build their way up.
Friendship helps one realize how the absence of a friend helps one broaden its view on how important someone could be to another. Friendship creates one to value the others opinion to guides them towards a positive direction, and finally how friendships allow others to experience situations no one else could give them,which in return creates memories that would forever be held onto. Both the novel If I Ever Get of Here by Eric Gansworth and the song …show more content…

In If I ever get out here, Lewis bestfriend, George, has started to spend less time with Lewis because he has gotten into a relationship. Although this left Lewis lonely at times, it gave him the opportunity to realize how much he depends on George, and how it only took him, to make him feel accepted. Because of this Lewis reminisce on how he treated Marie saying how “ [would it] have made a difference if I had stopped all by myself and just called her Marie. Maybe one fewer voice would have changed things”. It’s seen how based on how Lewis life changed after George became his friend, Lewis realized how just he should have cared about Marie personality rather than his reputation just like George has done. This goes to show how Lewis has learned the importance of friendship as it allows you to have someone to rely on and it only takes one person to make another feel belonged. Similarity, Wiz khalifa expresses how because of his friend, Paul Walker, he realized that friendship is about caring for one other. The quote,“ First you both go out your way and the vibe feeling strong” implies how Wiz has learned through his friendship that in order to make it happen, you need to think about the other person rather than just yourself. When he mentioned that the vibes would get stronger, he means more care between one another can greatly impact the emotions of other. It’s seen how through friendship alone we can see how Lewis and Wiz khalifa have gained a new perspective on how friends can truly affect