Since friends are the most important people in our life , they support us when we face any problem , they are like the stars you don’t see them often but you know that they are near you.
While I was searching on the web I found these nice sayings about friends and I want to share them with you ……I hope you like them

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“Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer”


"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."

"A circle is round it has no end, that's how long I want to be your friend!"

"Promise you won't forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave."

"Together forever, never apart. Maybe in distance, but never in heart.”

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

STRUCTURALISM

Structuralism: is a movement that appeared in France in the 1950s. The followers of this movement believe that things can not be understood in isolation they need to be in a context. While they study the literary text they pay much attention to the structure of it , since studying the structure will lead to the meaning.

Structuralism believe that the study of language should be objective ( you should study it in a scientific way).
Two of the most important leaders of structuralism are Claude Lévi-Strauss & Roland Barthes , who studied the theories of Ferdinand de Saussure about the language.

The theories of Ferdinand de Saussure :
I. The meanings we give to words are arbitrary.
II. The meanings of words are relational.
III. Language constitutes our world. Meaning attributed to the object or idea by the human mind.

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Linguistic Roots
The structuralist school emerges from theories of language and linguistics, and it looks for underlying elements in culture and literature that can be connected so that critics can develop general conclusions about the individual works and the systems from which they emerge. In fact, structuralism maintains that "...practically everything we do that is specifically human is expressed in language" (Richter 809). Structuralists believe that these language symbols extend far beyond written or oral communication.
For example, codes that represent all sorts of things permeate everything we do: "the performance of music requires complex notation...our economic life rests upon the exchange of labor and goods for symbols, such as cash, checks, stock, and certificates...social life depends on the meaningful gestures and signals of 'body language' and revolves around the exchange of small, symbolic favors: drinks, parties, dinners"

Sign Systems
The discipline of semiotics plays an important role in structuralist literary theory and cultural studies. Semioticians "...appl[y] structuralist insights to the study of...sign systems...a non-linguistic object or behavior...that can be analyzed as if it were a language" (Tyson 205). Specifically, "...semiotics examines the ways non-linguistic objects and behaviors 'tell' us something.
For example, the picture of the reclining blond beauty in the skin-tight, black velvet dress on the billboard...'tells' us that those who drink this whiskey (presumably male) will be attractive to...beautiful women like the one displayed here" (Tyson 205). Lastly, Richter states, "semiotics takes off from Peirce - for whom language is one of numerous sign systems - and structuralism takes off from Saussure, for whom language was the sign system par excellence

Structuralists assert that, since language exists in patterns, certain underlying elements are common to all human experiences. Structuralists believe we can observe these experiences through patterns: "...if you examine the physical structures of all buildings built in urban America in 1850 to discover the underlying principles that govern their composition, for example, principles of mechanical construction or of artistic form..." you are using a structuralist lens (Tyson 197).
Moreover, "you are also engaged in structuralist activity if you examine the structure of a single building to discover how its composition demonstrates underlying principles of a structural system. In the first example...you're generating a structural system of classification; in the second, you're demonstrating that an individual item belongs to a particular structural class