Blog #1

Friendship ♥

The friendship between Sarah Byrnes and Eric Calhoune is very special. They stayed friends throughout the whole story even though they both could have given up if they wanted to. Their friendship goes through many obstacles and loops through out the book but they go through it together and that just proves how good of friends that they are. I believe that friendship is one of the main traits in this book because Sarah Byrnes and Eric Calhoun display is so well.

In the beginning of the book, when Eric starts swimming on the school team Sarah Byrnes keeps saying that Eric will not be her friend anymore once he loses his wait because he will have no use for her. She thinks that he will become a jock, make new friends, and forget all about her. Well, Eric wants to prove her wrong and show that he will be loyal to her and their friendship. To do this, Eric eats like a pig for a year just so he will not loose weight. Even when he was not hungry, he would eat. Eric Calhoun stayed fat a whole year for her. One day, at lunch Sarah Byrnes tells Eric that he cannot keep living like this and that he will kill himself if he continues on the track that he is going. She says that he has proved their friendship to him and that he should just stop now, and so he does.

When Sarah Byrnes goes into the hospital to recover, Eric goes there to visit almost every single day he talks to her because he believes that she can hear everything he is saying and just chooses not to answer. One day, when Sarah Byrnes does answer him she tells him the truth about her severe burns. He is shocked but will not leave her during her time of need, now is the time to help her the most. So, Eric does everything in his power to get Sarah Byrnes to safety. He goes to Dale Thorton to figure out where Sarah Byrnes’s mother could be so she could help set things right for her. Also he goes to Mrs. Lemry for advise and Mrs. Lemry ends up kidding Sarah Byrnes at her house.

Even when Mr. Byrnes holds a knife up to Eric’s neck he will not tell where Sarah Byrnes is and claims he doesn’t know. Eventually he has to tell him because otherwise Mr. Byrnes would have killed him right there and then.

If you can see throughout these paragraphs, these two would do anything for each other. Eric Calhoun went to extreme lengths to keep Sarah Byrnes safe and out of reach from her dad. He wanted to make things right for her and prove that they are best friends and always will be. I am glad that a relationship never sprung between the two because I think that it would just make things awkward because of how good of friends they are. I think that the two of them go perfect together as best friends and if they had a relationship it would just ruin their friendship. They both taught each other very valuable lessons in life. Eric taught Sarah Byrnes that you have to fight for want you want and not keep it all inside. Sarah Byrnes taught Eric that you have to stand up to bullies and you need to be the referee of your own life, not let other people make decisions and calls for you.