The Unbreakable Friendship
Muhammad Ali states that, if one has not learned the meaning of friendship, he really has not learned anything. This saying broadly defines the word, friendship. In the novella Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck represents friendship by using the story that happen between two best friends, Lennie Small and George Milton. George is a small man who is smart, and Lennie is a strong man who has mental illness. The friendship between them seems unimaginable how they come together. However, the relationship George and Linnie share is the most rare friendship two people share because of their trust and loyalty.
The basis for friendship to continue is reliance. Lennie believes everything George has said, without thinking the reliability. When George commands him to jump into a river, Lennie does that without thinking whether he can swim. This act shocks George because and it converts to the turning of their relationship. George transforms from his guardian to his friend. When humans face danger, they will automatically follow what their trusted one says. That is what Lennie does, since he trusts George so much. After George saves Lennie’s life, Lennie thanks for that, which stuns George again. George realizes that even though Lennie has mental illness, Lennie does have feelings just like everyone else. Next, when George tells Lennie about his dream of having his own farm, Lennie expects that as a wonderful dream they can accomplish, which George treats it as a bedtime story for Lennie as first. Yet Lennie trusts that it will come true some day. He tries to behave himself and not to involve into any incident that may stops the dream to come true. He is truly a child. All he wants is rabbits and more important, his best friend, George. Finally, after he kills Curley’s wife by overexertion, he hides into the bushes to wait for George to take him. This evidence clearly reveals how much Lennie trusts George. He makes his life...