Old school week 2

Old School

The relationship between Allen Gee and James Alan Mcperson can be shown in the book as the perfect friendship but I see it as Allen and James like shadowing or an apprenticeship. Allen works under James and looks up to him early on in the book but James takes him under his wing. with that their friendship grows and they end up sharing ideas and companionship.
 The essay is called " Old School" since at the end of the book of Mcpersons death Gee wanted him to be reminded if the things he loved in his life , and ended up reading the books just like they first did in the past.
it significant that Allen Gee's first submission to McPherson's workshop is about a character who is "virtually white" since throughout the story they show how being a person of color is not depicted in his literature and because of this society non expectancy of it.
I do think its fair of the relationship established between them because both of them share the same ideology and take time to listen to another, to what they call a perfect friendship is hard to find and with that it shouldn't be lost.The other students didn't have the same connection they did and the efforts put on both party flourished the friendship rather than with the other students
The perfect friendship according to Aristotle "this degree of friend ship is attained when one person wants for the other is good for him simply because its good for him."
The essay conclude the way it does since the beginning it was a bout Allen as a writer and James taking him in as a friend and mentor , the story takes place throughout the years of there lives and i see it as a writing piece that marked the begin and end of a friendship when James died.