Blog Post 30: The Color of Friendship

What is "friendship"? Someone who talks to you everyday? Someone who gives you things? Or maybe even someone who buys you things? No. "Friendship" is when someone has been there for you since day one. The definition off the dictionary says friendship means, "The emotions or conducts of friends; the state being friends." What in the hell is that supposed to mean. I think friendship is when you have maybe two or three people that have your back no matter what, do not talk smack behind your back (they do it in your face), and are not fake. For example, I know this dude who claims to be "very close friends" with another person. They hang out almost every single day after school. But my point is that he claims that hey are good friends but he can talk mad shit about the other dude. He was saying how ugly and dusty his friend is which is funny to be because the other dude was also talking smack about him. Like what the hell. That is not even close to what real 'friendship' looks like. Irene talks about Clare in different ways, positive and negative things, like any other person would talk about their friend. But almost every time she talks about her, it deals with her physical beauty. But how did she forget where she had me Clare? "Perhaps before time, contact, or something had been at them, making them into a voice remotely suggestion England. Ah! Could it have been in Europe that they had met? 'Rene. No." (Larsen pg.17) Cool how someone remembers your laugh though, "I'd never in this world have known you if you hadn't laughed. You are changed you know. And yet, in a way, you're just the same." (Larsen pg.18) I just hate it when an old friend is not able to recognize me but I am able to recognize them. The concept of "passing" influences both Clare and Irene because they saw each other and Clare messed up her identity because she didn't recognize Irene and basically saw her as a different person. The central idea of part one to me is Identity because because it's all over the novel as you can see Clare saw Irene as a different person and they both fail to attempt an answer to what race is!