Margret Atwood 's novel, Oryx and Crake, contains friendship stories that can be used to demonstrate and confirm changes followed by friendships in an individual 's characteristics. Each friendship is a key into a new world that affect the person causing changes in the person 's life and personality either positively or negatively, and by observing the friendships in the novel, Oryx and Crake, few new worlds that are resulted with the beginning and progressing through the friendships can be perceived and confirmed. Throughout the novel, Oryx and Crake, the relationship between Jimmy and Crake is the best representation of the bond of friendship, and it fits the best into the topic of the essay. First, Jimmy and Crake were only friends of each other, no one else was a friend of either of them, which satisfies the meaning of and fits in as an example for the statement which says, "The need of friendship is greater than ever, but we are more ruthless about it. We are happy to let go of people of they don 't fit in with our lifestyles anymore." (Moore/ Vol. 128) Since they both were only friends to each other, this shows that each of them sees the other different from other people, …show more content…
Friendships can define one 's personality, it can change one 's personality and it can create almost a new character in the same body of the person. As Anais Nin once stated, " Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."