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Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Blog 51: Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Since we are reading the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck in class, we see a unique example of friendship. George and Lennie have an atypical relationship to say the least. Discuss a friendship that you've had that maybe wasn't exactly traditional. Discuss if maybe one person was more dependent on the other (like George and Lennie) or any other reason why your friendship was unique.
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a friendship that sticks out to me is when i used to play defence in hockey, my friend, who was the goalie was very soft and wouldn't push the players out when they were in her crease, so i acted as her protector a lot, and when people would scream or swear at her i would jump in which resulted in many penalties.
ReplyDeleteIt's good to here you guys had each-others support during hockey games. Good blog.
DeleteI don't know if that classifies as a weird friendship, because I have that relationship with my goalie too (as does the rest of my team). Good blog.
Deletethats so cute
DeleteIt's good that you stick up for other people.
DeleteI have never really had an atypical friendship with someone. I guess my friendship with my best friend is very close because we always have each-others backs. For example, whenever I forget a gym shirt and need one, most of the time, he has one to lend me. Or sometimes, he doesn't have a lunch and I will give him some( occasionally a lot) of my meal.
ReplyDeleteThat is just regular friendship Peter. Great Blog!
DeleteI don't really have any really close friends, best friends yes, but not really close out of the ordinary type friendships. So answering this question is kind of hard for me. But I do have a few friends that just don't have a filter and say whats on their mind good or bad. It can sometimes get really funny if they say something out of nowhere without any info to back them up. I guess that's about it.
ReplyDeleteI as well had a lot of trouble answering this question. I can’t think of any atypical relationships I’ve had with any friends or at least they haven’t stuck out for me to remember them.
DeleteI’ve never really had an atypical relationship with any of my past or present friends. However, I’ve had something along these lines with my cousins. My cousins and I are very close but most of them are older than I am meaning that they have a lot more liberty compared to myself being a 15 years old. I guess you could say that I depend on them to show up to family events more than they depend on me. I feel as though I tend to look for them more often then they look for me considering they are older and hang out with friends rather than come to family dinners.
ReplyDeleteI'm also very close with my cousins, great blog !
DeleteTo think about it I've never had an out of the ordinary friendship with present friends or past ones. The only thing that I can actually think about that would be maybe not the typical friendship is the one I have with my cousins. I'm very close with most of my family but I'm super close with my cousins on my dads side. At every family gathering the moment I wait for are for my cousins to show up. We're not at all close in age and even though we all have totally different interests it seems like every time we see each other, we always bond and have a great time. Especially in the summer when all my family comes over for our annual family BBQ, something funny always seems to happen which make memories to remember in future years. Nothing would be the same without them and it never matters how long we haven't seen each other because when we do we always catch up on each others lives and it's just a continuous bond throughout the 11 of us.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice that you make memories that can last a lifetime! Great blog!
DeleteI had a friend a while back who was never able to get by on her own. She always came to me for school work, homework, answers, etc. It wasn't so much of a "she's incapable" kind of situation, but more of a she's a lazy procrastinator. I am as well, but not as much. I feel like almost everyone has that one friend that depends or at a time in their life depended on them a lot. I also feel that everyone is like that to another person as well. It's interesting to think about who your procrastinator is, and who you procrastinate towards. That's why next time I think of getting annoyed to the one who is always asking for help, I think of the person that I always ask things of, and how patient they are with me.
ReplyDeleteThat's interesting. I'm sure everyone's got a friend like that. Great blog
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ReplyDeleteMy best friend is a year older than me, and our friendship is definitely different compared to others, but in a good way. She really looks after me and protects me, and she gives great advice and I could surely depend on her for that. Our friendship is unique because unlike my other friends, since we are a different age, it’s more of like a sister bond instead of a friend. She’s more like family so we’re especially close and act a lot differently compared to how we would act with other friends since we’re so close.
I have never really had weird or not normal relationships to be honest. The most nontraditional relationship I have had was a friend who was very clingy. He would never leave me alone and whenever I was talking with another friend they would come and insert themselves and just never leave me alone. I tired to ignore them but they kept coming. It was very annoying and I did not enjoy that at all.
ReplyDeleteWow that is cool I feel like everyone has one person like that.
DeleteSounds like someone I know, great blog.
DeleteI wouldn't say I've ever had a friendship out of the ordinary, but I was the odd one out for a lot of elementary school. To put this into perspective, I was the little German Italian girl with blonde hair and blue eyes, baptized Lutheran. I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood and went to a school that was 95% Jewish. Most of my friends were Jewish and this was completely normal to me and still is. I've been to countless Hanukkah parties, Passover dinners, Bar Mitvahs and Bat Mitvahs. These friendships weren't weird to me, but I was always the odd one out. They were, however, weird to my Nonno, Nonna and two aunts. They lived in a majority Italian suburb and weren't familiar with Jewish traditions. All this to say, I've never had a weird friendship were someone was dependent on someone else.
ReplyDeleteI mean there wasn't really a friendship or relationship that was out of the ordinary. I mean I did have a friendship where this kid would always want to fight me I had no idea why, but he would see me and say yo hit me or fight me. I mean I did the first time and than I completely just ignore him every single time I see him since that day this was in grade 6 btw.
ReplyDeleteThat explains a lot, great blog!
DeleteI don't really think I have been in a weir or out of the ordinary friendship before. One friendship that I had that was unique was with my friend Max. Max and I knew each other since preschool and we ended up going to the same elementary school so it's safe to say that we were pretty close. We also lived on the same street which made it much easier to organize playdates and other activities. Looking back, I realize that I depended on Max a lot more than I thought and that we always went to his house to hang out instead of mine.
ReplyDeleteMine was almost the same.
DeleteA friendship that I had that was odd was I had a friend from school and we played video games with each other quite often however we never really socialized with one another in school. However in this relationship no one was really dependant on the other the both of us were pretty good at video games and could carry ourselves.
ReplyDeleteI don’t think that there’s been a time where I had an atypical friendship, nor have I had the type of friendship that was either very one sided or codependent. However, I do remember having one friend who always needed to feel like she was in control (kind of like George, now that I think about it). It was as if they constantly had to make sure they were better, or superior, in some way. They always had to be the one in charge of the games our friends played, had to know more about everything and would always talk over everybody. Despite that, they were still a good friend, and there were ways of keeping them in check if ever they went too far.
ReplyDeleteI never really had a friendship that was weird. My friendships were basically all normal. I mean, the only thing that was out of the ordinary about one of my friendships was that we always went to his house, so I guess thatś kind of dependent but we onyl did this because my mom wouls always kick us off the xbox.
ReplyDeleteall your friendships are weird because there is a robot involved
DeleteLast time I remember this kind of relationship was in preschool, I was so close to this girl named Ariel, you could say I was the Lennie to her George. She was the taller person, much more stronger and wiser if I can remember right, she was always there to cheer me on, in my goals as a little 5 year old, and she was the complete opposite of me to say the least, in many ways.
ReplyDeleteThe weirdest relationship I would say I have had is with my mom. She is super annoying a lot of the time but we are really best friends. I seriously tell her everything that goes on and i know she will always be on my side. Although this may seem a little nerdy but she is one of my favorite people to hang out with and I am super happy we are close.
ReplyDeleteOne weird friendship I have been in that wasn't exactly ordinary was when I used to play soccer and I had this friend that was super small, and when I say small, I mean small(and I was one of the biggest on the team). We were both defense, so we had a pretty good bond. He came over to my house a few times and we were good friends, but unfortunately, he ended moving to Calgary.
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