In "My Antonia," the friendship between Jim and Antonia is a lifelong
             bond that cannot be broken, and this is a constant theme throughout the
             novel. Jim and Antonia love each other, but they love each other more than
             romantically, they have the true bond of friendship, and it does not
             shatter even though their lives become drastically different as the grow
             older. Jim wants to remember his friend as she was in his youth, and in
             that, he wants to hang on to his own youth. He muses, "In the course of
             twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose
             the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything
             that can ever happen to one again" (Cather 328). Theirs is an easy
             friendship that comes back to them whenever they see each other, and
             although Antonia does not really appear that often in the novel, it is
             quite clear she is vital to Jim, and an important part of his memories, and
             of his future. When he sees her again, after twenty years, he thinks,
             "All the strong things of her heart came out in her body, that had been so
             tireless in serving generous emotions. It was no wonder that her sons
             stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of
             early races" (Cather 353). In the end, Jim equates his friendship with
             Antonia throughout the years as his destiny, and this destiny has made all
             the difference for both of them, creating a lasting bond stronger than
             family or love. True friends last a lifetime, and Jim and Antonia are an
             example of the truest and purest type of friendship, unselfish and caring
             "Citizen Kane," on the other hand, illustrates a far different view of
             friendship, for it illustrates what can happen when a friendship turns
             ugly. Charles Foster Kane, the main character of Citizen Kane is a wealthy
             and ruthless businessman who becomes a newspaper tycoon and loses the only
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