“Friendship isn't about who you've known the longest. It's about who walked into your life, and said ‘I'm here for you’ and proved it.” Friends are the ones that stick with you through thick and thin, and will always help you get through a problem, even though you've only known them for a day. This was shown in Neil Gaiman’s novel “Coraline”, through Coraline’s relationship with the cat. Neil Gaiman wanted to show his readers that it doesn't matter how long you've known a person, if they stay with you during a rough patch in your life, they are the ones you call friends. A key relationship in the novel that helped me understand their character/personality were Coraline and the cat’s relationship. Coraline Jones is a young girl that discovered
