You never know who could be your friend

What is friendship? I believe friendship is something that you have with someone else. You could have known this person for a long time or a short period of time, but if you can trust the person and you know you can trust them with anything you tell them, then you have a friendship with this person. My friendship is based on a couple of things. Trust, honesty and loyalty are all things I believe you need in a good friendship. You could also help the person out of something and by doing that you start a friendship and you should be there when the person needs your help. I do think Jim and Long John sliver have a friendship.They might not slow it all the time but when they both needed each other, there true friendship came out. There are two many examples in the book that show there true friendship.

In the begging of the story Jim was sent out to find Long John Sliver at a bar to tell him that he has the job to be the cook for the ship. When they meet they started a great conversion and were interacting a lot. Both seemed to like each other and believed that they could start a friendship. Once Jim realized who Long John Sliver really is he look at him another way and Jim didn't believe that he could trust him anymore. Jim was getting very suspicious, so he hide in a apple barrel and lisined to Long John's conversion with his fellow piraites about how they are going to kill everyone and take the treasure for them selves. "from these dozen words I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended upon me along" (65) This made jim not think of him as a friend but a enemy.

After Jim was captured by the pirates they brought him back to the stockade were they tied his hand and legs. All of the pirates were convinced in killing Jim but Long John sliver didn't think that they should. "Ive always liked you, I have, for a lad of spirit and the picter of my own self when i was a young and handsom" (180) When this happens Jim realizes what Long John Sliver has done for him and is very thankful. This made Jim think about the Captain and how he has a nice side inside him. Everyone thinks of a pirate as a bad person who wants treasure and will kill anyone that they need to.

At the end of the book when the good mates found the treasure in the cave they were very happy and just wanted to get it to the Hispaniola to state there voyage back to their home land. After the treasure was abored the ship they didn't know what to do with Long John Sliver. There plain at first was to bring him back to Bristol, England were he could go on trial for being a pirate. Then Jim was thinking about what Long John sliver did for him and that he could maybe be dead right now if it wasn't for him. So, Jim decided to let Long John Sliver sneak away so that he would have to go on trial and be hanged. "He had cut though a bulkhead unobserved and hand removed one of the sacks of coins, worth, perhapss, three or four hunderd guineas, to help him on his further wanderings" (222) Jim was thinking good thoughts about the captian and hoped he is living in good comfort. "perhaps still lives in comfort" (223)

Sometimes you will never think that this person could be your friend. If you can trust this person and you know they are being honest with you then the they could be your friends one day. You would never think that Jim and Captain Long John Sliver could become friends and have each others backs. This just shows you that you could make friends with someone you would never think of being fiends before