Friendship. Betrayal. What is the difference between these opposites? Friendship is an alliance that is founded upon trust. Friendship is very much analogous to a joint faith amid friends. Friends are individuals who socialize together and communicate with each other. Betrayal on the other hand, is more of a destroying a trust with remarks, actions, or thoughts. This ties in exceptionally well with the book, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, which integrates the duality …showed first 75 words of 607 total…

…showed last 75 words of 607 total…Gene's request for forgiveness regarding the incident as a "blind impulse". Finally, friendship and betrayal are frequent in everyday life, not just in Gene's life. In addition, they are aspects of everyone's lives. Everyone's lives revolve around their friends and friendship, and not themselves. Futhermore, friendship and betrayal occur all the time, but are disregarded as nil. Lastly, friendship is taken for granted, when it is very imperative in understanding many other aspects of life.