My closest friend

I don't have a "best friend", but I do have many very close friends. One of my closest friends is an amazing person. She is a good student and a great friend. She is an awesome rock climber, which I look up to her for. In Hawaii, she AMAZED me how fast she climbed up the wall! It was like she just shot up it! She is a really good artist too. Her drawings and sculptures are so unique and awesome! I hope she will use that gist in the future!

My friend is an ambivert. She loves to be around people but she also like to be alone sometimes. She is also a little bit of an altruist in the sense of she cares a lot about the people around her. She is a very giving person, but she does what she thinks is best for herself as well. She is definitely not an egotist. She never brags or talks about her accomplishment in a rude or unnecessary way. She may mention something in a calm way, which is a good way to be. Overall, she is just an amazing girl. I miss her so much!

One of my earliest memories was when I was three years old and I went to Mexico with my mom and dad. The place we went was so big and pretty! We went EVERYWHERE! It was so much fun to see all the kids that I made sand castles with! There was this one girl that didn't talk much but we played together a lot. She was really nice and my mommy and daddy took a lot of pictures of us playing together. I was nice and shared my blanky with her, I think she liked it. I really want to go back and see her again! We could play together like we used to! I miss her a whole bunch.

Looking back on this memory, I still didn't understand why the little girl wouldn't talk to me, so I asked my parents about it. They said that the she did not speak any English, which surprised me quite a bit. They said that we would communicate only with hand signals and with the things we were playing with. I also remember that she didn't have any toys of her own, we only would play with the ones that I had brought from home. I do wonder sometimes that maybe she remember me, but i doubt it considering her family did not have any cameras of their own. Overall, she was one of my first memories. I still find it amazing how we could play together even though we spoke two completely different languages.

Treasure Island: Imagery

For my outside reading I chose to do Treasure Island and I think that imagery is the best literary element to describe the book. It uses a lot of jargon and and descriptive language to create pictures and images in my head. The author uses imagery because it creates more of a distinct feel to the book so it doesn't just go on and on like some books tend to do. It just makes it an easier read.
Imagery helps the reader be more involved like he/she is actually there. That kind of thing helps me get more into a book than something like if they used point of view. In many parts of the book I was able to feel the emotions the characters were experiencing and made me feel like I was really there. The way the author describes the pirates just puts these scary, dirty men in my mind. I wouldn't want to mess with them.
Overall, I am glad that imagery was a big part in the book. It helped me see things more clearly and helped me enjoy the book more.

Treasure Island

For my outside reading book i am reading Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. So far, I am enjoying it very much. After the first page, I thought that it was very easy to get into. It grabbed my attention right away by the way the author describes things, and also just what is going on in the book. It is very interesting to me.

Out of the five elements, imagery is what stood out the most. Everytime i pick it up to read, I get these pictures in my head of what the words create. I knew that this was going to be the literary element right away just by reading the first few pages; it was pretty obviouse to me.

The reason I think that the author chose to right this way is because it helps the reader get into the book easier. It's more captivating than if the main literary element was foreshadowing or something that did not have a lot of descriptive writing. I am glad this book contains a lot of imagery.

I think that the tone of the book so far is informative and partially zealous and somber. It is a little somber because it just seems a little dark. The pictures that the imagery give are mixed emotions for me. So far the tone has stayed the same through the chapters. But, I am sure it will be different as I keep reading. I can't wait to see what happens next.