“Friendship is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.” - Muhammad Ali. Friendships come in many forms. They bring out emotions in people that they did not have. They play a vital role on the way we behave and how we come to realize who we are. The novels "A Separate Peace," by John Knowles, and "Of Mice and Men," by John Steinbeck, both takes us through the journey of friendship. This journey takes us through the emotions and demands that comes with a friendship. Jealousy is an emotion that has the ability to break relationships. This negative emotion can be found in the novel "A Separate Peace." Gene is very jealous of Finny. That is the main reason he jounced the limb that Finny was on, he wanted to be the person that Finny was. In the novel Gene states,“I never forgot, and that evening I put on his cordovan shoes, his pants, and I looked for and finally found his pink shirt...But when I looked into the mirror it was no remote aristocrat I had become, no character out of daydreams. I was Phineas, Phineas to the life” (Knowles 62). When Gene does this, he lets himself escape the guilt that he got from bouncing the limb and making Finny shatter his legs. When he looked in the mirror and saw Finny, it showed that he was becoming what he envied. He wanted to be Finny and putting on Finny’s clothes made him feel like he was a step closer to achieving that goal. Because Finny was also crippled after falling out of the tree, it also let gave Gene the sense that he was on the same level as Finny or even better. In contrast, in the novel, "Of Mice and Men," jealousy plays no role in Lennie and George’s friendship. They both travel together and are friends because they want to and they care for each other. Friends rely on each other. When Finny’s legs where shattered, he was not able to play sports anymore. So, he made Gene play them for hi