When two people have a friendship, they share each other’s thoughts and feelings.
Friends share everything together and sometimes, they will plan a life together. They do not build walls and stay apart, they are always together. In the poem Mending Wall by Robert Frost, the narrator tries to convince his neighbor that there is no need for a wall to have a friendship. Also, in the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the characters George and Lennie are building a life together, which shows their friendship. Through the use of symbolism in the poem Mending Wall by Robert Frost and the use of symbolism and indirect characterization in the story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, they show that friends do not have walls between one another, they always share their lives because they will be happy.
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The narrator is trying to become friends with his neighbor but his neighbor seems to be always shutting him down. The wall is symbolizing anti-friendship but the narrator is a symbol of pro-friendship. For example in the poem, the narrator says, “There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’ ” (Frost). The narrator is trying to tell his neighbor that his apple trees will not eat his pine trees. Which means that there stuff still will not cross even without the wall. But the wall stops them from being friends and sharing how they feel. Without the wall, they would be connected in friendship. And with the wall, it separates them and destroys the thought of