Thursday, April 14, 2011

Friendship: A path to love and enmity

      How would someone feel if their first friend turned out to be there best friend? It would feel awesome to have a best friend who is also that person's best friend. This is how Bree Tanner feels after she meets Diego who becomes her first and best friend. After 3 months of trying to not get attention after Bree becomes a vampire, life got easier when Diego befriends her and they turn into best friends. But I think their friendship has a possibility of turning into something else.
      In the book, The Short Second Life Of Bree Tanner, Stephenie Meyer creates a world of vampires that tries to fit in with the humans. Bree, a curious but scared vampire, is a newborn trying to fit in with the group of vampires created by a very powerful vampire. Bree always tries to not get noticed, not even from the teenage group of vampires because they are dangerous. Vampires can tear each other apart and every month, one of the leaders of the clan would kill a few vampires either from anger or irritation. After Bree and Diego becomes friends, they realize they are the pawns of a huge game. In the book, its easy to notice how Bree's feeling toward Diego changes becuase she starts to think about how cute Diego is and how sweet and different he is from the other vampires in the clan. And, I think Diego is also starting to like Bree since he even kissed her twice. This shows how Bree and Diego's relationship is changing from strangers to best friends to a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship.
      I think through this Stephenie Meyer is trying to tell us that friendship has a possibility to turn into anything including love and even enmity. Friendship is a powerful thing and everyone needs a friend in their life but sometimes friendship can turn onto something totally unexpected because friendship is such a beautiful thing it can turn to something bad or good. In a scale, friendship is in the middle because it's neither enmity nor love so through friendship it's always hard to identify if two people's relationship turns to enmity or love, or if it stays the same.
      In reality, this might occur but not through two peoples recent friendship because in real life everything is unpredictable not like stories in a book where if someone knows part of the story, they have a pretty good idea about what will happen next. In reality, a person has to know another person to really decide what title to give them, either friend, enemy or lover. To make right choices one has to know about one's options to decide what path they want to take and this is one of the places in life where someone needs to decide between what's right and what's wrong.  

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