reactionBestfriends
Diego Dranuta
Professor Hill
EN101
21 April 2015
Reaction essay: Best Friends In the essay “Best Friends,” Howard Salomon Jr. expresses his feelings about friendship; he also interviewed some people and took conclusions from it, and tells a story about his personal life. A friend is a person who is chosen by each of us to be part of each peoples’ life. There are two kinds of friends: friends, and best friends. Best friends are those friends who no matter what are their situation, if his or her friend needs them; they are going to do the best in order to help their best friend. Twenty people were interviewed and all of them agreed in three requirements for being friends: reciprocity, honesty, and love. Reciprocity, honesty, and love are important traits in friendship, but I believe that the most important trait to be friends is to be unconditional. Being unconditional means doing something for other, knowing that nothing will be received in return. That is a friend’s job; to support their friends, no matter in which situation they are. When I help a friend, I do not expect to receive nothing in turn, and I know that if I need help, there are people who are going to help me. That is friendship to me. Each person has many friends, but just a few of them are considered best friends. I believe that best friends are brothers and sisters that I choose, and they choose me. It is a second family which can help me in the situations that my family cannot. Family and friends complemented each other in order to give support and love. Howard Salomon tells a story where his father died, and he says all his friends called him and gave him their condolences, but only his best friends supported him at that bad moment of his life. I believe that people realize who those best friends are when something as the death of a familiar happened. In the good moments everyone is a good friend, but in the bad moments people realize who is an unconditional friend, a best friend. The
Professor Hill
EN101
21 April 2015
Reaction essay: Best Friends In the essay “Best Friends,” Howard Salomon Jr. expresses his feelings about friendship; he also interviewed some people and took conclusions from it, and tells a story about his personal life. A friend is a person who is chosen by each of us to be part of each peoples’ life. There are two kinds of friends: friends, and best friends. Best friends are those friends who no matter what are their situation, if his or her friend needs them; they are going to do the best in order to help their best friend. Twenty people were interviewed and all of them agreed in three requirements for being friends: reciprocity, honesty, and love. Reciprocity, honesty, and love are important traits in friendship, but I believe that the most important trait to be friends is to be unconditional. Being unconditional means doing something for other, knowing that nothing will be received in return. That is a friend’s job; to support their friends, no matter in which situation they are. When I help a friend, I do not expect to receive nothing in turn, and I know that if I need help, there are people who are going to help me. That is friendship to me. Each person has many friends, but just a few of them are considered best friends. I believe that best friends are brothers and sisters that I choose, and they choose me. It is a second family which can help me in the situations that my family cannot. Family and friends complemented each other in order to give support and love. Howard Salomon tells a story where his father died, and he says all his friends called him and gave him their condolences, but only his best friends supported him at that bad moment of his life. I believe that people realize who those best friends are when something as the death of a familiar happened. In the good moments everyone is a good friend, but in the bad moments people realize who is an unconditional friend, a best friend. The