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The Pact There is not much that separates our kind from lower species of life. Our intellect, communication skills and opposable thumbs are a few of the many advantages to being a human. Human’s ability to construct a deep and rewarding lifelong friendship is no less incredible than any of the previously mentioned traits. These friendships are an integral part of our lives each and everyday, and friendships that last can certainly help lead to ones success later on in life. I have had many very close friends in my life and they all have helped me in their own way. Their strengths and abilities have immensely helped me in areas that might otherwise be weaknesses. In The Pact, three youths relied on each other’s guidance and strengths …show more content…

That is what makes friendship so great, it is two people making an effort to get along and develop a bond strictly out of free will. No one is forcing you to be a friend to someone, it is a choice. As I have previously stated, I never lived in the streets in a bad part of town. My life has consisted of farmland and dairy cows for as long as I can remember. Despite these differences I can draw a clear parallel to my life from the book. During their high school years the boys go through many travails. In one of these Rameck starts hanging out with a tough crowd and he ends up being charged with attempted murder. The charges were eventually dropped. After all of this drama Rameck learns who his true friends are. I have never been accused of attempted murder, but we all go through a stage where we hang out with people that we shouldn’t. For a short period I started to hang out with some of the wrong types of kids. Through a lot of drama I got myself out of that situation and learned who truly had my best interest at heart. I learned who my true friends were just like Rameck. It is important to choose the right friends, good friends can take you wherever you want to go in life, and the wrong friends can be a disastrous decision. A quote from The Pact sums this up nicely, “Friendship can lift you up, strengthen and empower you, or break you down, weaken and defeat you.” (32) This is why it is so important to surround yourself with positive people, and

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