Sunday, March 12, 2017

A GOOD FRIEND. Èrik E. (1 BTX A)

A friend 
                                                                       
If you look for the word “friend” in an English dictionary you will find this definition below, “closely regarded person”. It means that a friend is a considered person who you can trust in. In fact, the dictionary is right but normally a friend is more than a confident person.

A friend, of course, is a very close person to you, reliable, tolerant, and resourceful. He or she should be sensible and helpful with you when you have a problem. The attitude of a real good friend mustn’t be selfish or hesitant with you. 

In literature, in almost of the books in the world we can appreciate different types of friends. Personally, if I have to choose a couple of them, I will choose two boys, Bruno and Shmuel. Both are the main characters of the novel, “The boy in the striped pyjamas” whose author is John Boyne.

Bruno is German and he had lived in Berlin before his family moved near a Nazi concentration camp, because of his father’s job. Moreover, Shmuel is a Jew, and he with his family had to go, obliged, to a concentration camp in Auschwitz. Both are innocent children, without prejudices, racism and religion discrimination. They saw each other for the first time on this concentration camp, Bruno was outside playing with his ball and Shmuel was inside, sitting on the dirty floor. He was lonely and upset, because he had lost his family. Bruno tried to cheer him up, and they became good friends. Sadly, the final of this pretty and dreamer friendship is not quite passionate like the beginning. 

  Èrik Esteban Marín
  1 BTX A


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