Best Friends

Author’s Note: This is a compare and contrast paper between the main characters in my book that I am reading.

In the book I am previously reading at the moment, the two main characters Rose Hathaway and Lissa Dragomir, are almost complete opposites, but yet they are best friends. This series concludes that even if you are nothing like someone, you can still become friends with anyone.

Between the years Rose and Lissa have become best friends, even if they are practically almost nothing alike. Rose is a strength and endurance dhampir, who protects everyone she can, and she loves to have fun and go to many parties and fool around with people. Rose also likes fighting and getting into trouble whenever she can. Yet she can also always have time to sit down with anyone and help them, even if she has her own problems to work out. While on the other hand, Lissa loves to help people and she tries to find the best in everyone. She hates fighting and hurting people though, and that’s where the difference between Rose and Lissa comes in.

With these differences of Rose liking to party and likes to fight, and Lissa seeing the goodness in people, they still manage to be best friends. I can observe that they might equal each other out, and that’s how they keep their relationship going. I’ve noticed with myself and my own best friend, we act completely different at times, but other times it seems like we could be sisters. So I can relate to their relationship and how it all worked out.

Then with all of the similarities between the two best friends, I can make out how they can also stick together through the worst possible times. They are both devoted to always helping people, and they can practically read each other’s minds because they know each other too well. Lissa is slowly learning to have more fun and go to more parties, so that’s another item that Rose and Lissa have in common together.

Rose can search out any fight she desires, but she loves to kill and fight Strigoi. She even went on a killing spree while she was in Russia looking for her lover that has turned Strigoi, while Lissa is the quiet and non-hurtful type of girl. Even when Lissa threw a punch at a guardian, it hurt her so much from the pain and from hurting someone.

In this series named the “Vampire Academy”, that I am currently reading, Lissa Dragomir and Rosemarie Hathaway, have many troubles throughout the past two years. They stick together through the best and the worst possible times. The two of them will always be best friends, even if they are almost the exact opposite from one another.