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.
Answer: The question you are asking is not clear.
I can not describe Hoopers character as revealed if I do not know what you are reading.
There are no "shown" because you didn't give us anything, nobody can help without resources for questions like this!
