This is a collection of associations and opinions the characters of the novel have when they talk/think about friends and friendship.
Friends:
-trust
-responsibility
-losses
-grief
-fun
-similarities
-dissappointments
-perishable
Friendship:
-discovery
-love
-desire
-happiness
-luck
-priviledge (especially for Miles as he finds his first "real" friends)
-importance (after Miles found friends in the Colonel, Alaska and Takumi)
-momentariness (ended up with a sudden death)
-losses
-experiences
-sharing
-adventures
-solidarity
-loyalty
Takumi: "She was smart, really, to rat on one of her friends, because no one ever thinks to blame the
friends." (l. 12 p. 77)
"The colonel takes all this honor and loyalty shit pretty serious." (l. 27 p. 28)
Miles: "I swear to God i won't rat." (l. 13 p. 78)
I thought of Florida and my "school friends" and realized for the first timehow much I would
miss the Creek if I ever had to leave it. (l.10 p. 78)
Survival at Culver Creek meant loyalty. (l.15 p. 78)
They had taken the fall for me to show me how it was done, so I would know what to do when
time came. (l. 17f. p. 78)
