Humanities I
Mrs. Cave-Mattie
Gilgamesh Unit
Friendship: What does it mean to you?
During class, we discussed the idea of friendship, and you defined the word
“friend”, including in your definition the personality traits you feel a good friend should
have. As an extension of that assignment, you will carefully read the following quotes
and consider their meaning. Then, choose the one that best characterizes your own ideas
of friendship. Respond in a journal entry by interpreting and discussing the quote. Show
how it connects to you.
Remember: a solid journal response will have an intro sentence or two, concluding
sentence or two, and a well-developed paragraph or two with 7-10 sentences.
1. “Hold a true friend with both your hands” – Nigerian Proverb
2. “Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies” – Aristotle
3. “I always felt that the great high privilege, relief, and comfort of friendship was
that one had to explain nothing.” – Katherine Mansfield
4. “If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends
for their sakes rather than for our own” – Charlotte Bronte
5. “Where you used to be, there is a hold in the world, which I find myself
constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night” – Edna St.
Vincent Millay
6. “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born” – Anais Nin
7. “A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature” – Emerson