Friendship

Friendship is an important quality in life. It brings joy to us and happiness. Friendship's requires ground rules, so you are on the same base with your friends. You need to understand each other, respect one and another and have certain traits, for example loyalty, forgiveness, liability and a trustworthy attire.
An excellent example of great friends are Homer Hickam's friends: In the book Ocotober Sky, Homer Hickam (Sonny), relies on his friends to aid him in his dream and experiments requiring the rockets. His friends, being loyal, at the beginning when they were being made fun of for what they were doing. His friends weren't entirely into the rockets like how Homer was, but they stuck with Homer any way.
The rockets also allowed Homer to make more and new friends, like Quenton. If Homer never had found a interest in building rockets he would have never befriended Quenton. Homers friends didn't even like Quenton, they thought he was an outcast, still they were loyal and kept with Homer.
There are reasons to be friends with some one. You could be geinuiely interested in them, or actually like them for who they are, like O'Dell, Roy Lee and Sherman. They liked Homer for who he was. There are also the wrong reasons to be friends with someone. You could use them for something they have, to be popular or cool. Homer used Quenton at first, because he knew Quenton knew lots about science, though they did become real friends. After Homer became more famous for his rockets and more succesful, more and more people thought he was cool and decided they wanted to be his friend. They were using him a bit, which is wrong. Homer had to be careful on how he chose his friends. You would not want to pick some one who is superficial and only like you for something you were or something you had and not care about who you are as a person. Friends also help create you as a person. You wouldn't want some one who you don't like. Though sometimes when it comes to people like Quenton, you had a wrong veiw of them.
People depend on friends and having that social life. They help you through hard times and complicated issues. They are always there when you need them. You must choose them wisely and not always go for the popular, obvious choices.