Best Friend

My best friend is so nice. She is there whenever someone needs her. She is very considerate and caring of others. She's funny and very happy. She is just a go lucky girl. She knows how to have fun on a rainy day. She is up for almost everything. She is really good at volleyball, and very athletic. When, I need help in Latin and she gets the assignment, she's willing to help me even if she is kind of busy.

Jasmine does the minimum, but a little more than it, I think she could go to higher classes if she wanted to. She could pull through with it. I love hanging out with her because she is just a nice girl, funny, and very happy. She is also an ambivert, she likes hanging around people, but some days, very rarley, she likes to stay home and just get comfortable on the couch and watch movies.

Early Memories

I remember about 6 or 7 years ago, when the dog that was with my family even before I was born died. Luke, was an english setter and was about 8 when I was born. For three years he was my sibling, until I actually got one. Then there was three of us. We did everything together. Our family would take him on all of the vacations we would go on, because most of them allowed dogs. He was a rambunctious guy always running around and chasing things when we went down to the Oregon Coast. He would always eat the dead seagulls that washed onto the shore, it was gross. My mom and dad sometimes had to run after him because he would chase a flying seagull across the beach. But as he got older he got more slow and didn't do as much as he did. He would just lay on the beach instead of chasing things across it.
When he was 15 or 16 we started to notice that he had a large bump on the side of his hip. I can't remember what it was, but we brought him into the vet. They had to cut it, I think, then he had to wear one of those cones on his head for like 2 weeks or so. It was kind of funny watching him eat his food with the cone completly over the bowl, but sad also. I can't remember what happened exactly, but it was in August 6 or 7 years ago and Luke was 16. I was taking a nap alone and not knowing what was going on around me. Luke had gone over to one of our neighbors house and stayed there for a while. My dad and sister went to go look for him and found him laying in the woods close to their house. My dad had to carry him back and while he was barrying him in the woods my sister cried in my moms arms. Then I woke up and my parents and my sister sat me down at the table and told me what happened. I cried for I don't know how long, and realized that I would never see him again. I lost my best friend that day and I would never get him back.

Rebecca: Imagery

I am reading Rebecca and it is not good. I thought it sounded good, but it really isn't barely at all. I think the literary element that is most used in the book is imagery. Some people might think it is motif and I can see where they are getting that, but I think it is imagery more. The author uses imagery to describe in alot of detail the scenery that the main character is looking at or around her (it never said what her name was). The author explains the scenery in such detail, that it's almost like you are the girl and you are where she is. The author explains the way she is looking at something and how it makes her feel and why she feels that way. It also is really easy to imagine, because you have the exact detail. Like when the character is going to Manderly for the first time, the author describes the rhodedendrons on the wall and the way that the drive curved and curved, but then finally was straight. It kind of made you feel the same way as the character, which was awwed by the flowers and how there was so many of them.

Outside Reading

I am reading Rebecca. So far the book is good and I hope it stays that way, throughout the whole book. I wanted to read this book because it sounded good. I read the first chapter and it was very descriptive about her dream. This book is not hard to get into because the first chapter grabs you, the fact that it is her dream and its very descriptive.
I think the major literary element of this book will be imagery because there is a lot of it so far and not alot of irony or a shift in point of view. It could change though there can be alot of irony or point of view change in the rest of the book.
The author wrote the book in this way probably because there is alot of stuff she is doing and it needs to be very descriptive. It also makes the book more interesting because you can imagen what is going on in that part.
The tone for the part that I have read is probably dramaticly nostalgic because she wants to go back to the past, so she can live in her old house, and she is homesick. The dramatic part about it is that she is very emotional about her old house and is very sad that she is not living there anymore.