Answer: A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
Explanation:
The speaker says that a friend is someone they can be sincere with. This means that to the speaker, the underlying advantage of friendship is sincerity. Friends can be honest and truthful with one another more than others and so it can be said that honesty holds a friendship together.
This is why honesty is important in a friendship. If friends cannot be honest with one another, the friendship is fractured and according to the speaker, cannot even be referred to as friendship.
This is an example of irony:
Nothing is perfect. This was one of Mrs. Hopewell's favorite sayings. Another was: that is life! And still another, the most important, was: well, other people have their opinions too.
From the excerpt above, we see Mrs. Hopewell adding the name to the girl eventhough the girl feel that it's intrusive and she feel that she got to has a say about it. But despite that, Hopewell's favourite saying is other people have their opinions too.
1.in the book they get chosen a career at age 12 instead in the movie it’s at age 18
2. This first memory in the book is being stung by a bee in the movie it’s a sunburn
3.in the book Fiona is not mentioned a lot but in the movie she is seen and mention more.
