My Best Friend

I have had many friends throughout my life, but only one stands out as my best friend. He is average height and weight. He is a very friendly and outgoing person. People meet him and immediately notice him as a talkative person who is never shy around new people (the complete opposite of me). He has short, blond hair and blue eyes. I have known him for about four years and he has revealed himself to be an extremely exciting and daring person. Nearly every memory I have, involves him doing something wild and insane. My best friend is also very smart and it can get him into a lot of trouble.

I think that he would be best described as an altruist and extrovert. He is always friendly and puts others before himself. Also, like I said in paragraph one, he turns his feelings outward and is very social. His knowledge and desire for excitement often finds him into situations where he has taken a household item apart and turned it into a car or a bomb. Obviously his parents don’t like this at all. He has a good sense of humor and we have a fun time together.

Earliest Memory

The earliest memory I have was from when I was about two years old. It was a toasty warm Fourth of July evening and, just like everyone else, I was having fun and enjoying the fireworks. I had spotted a sparkly, flashy stick that I found exceptionally interesting. It was called SparklerJ!!! Yay, I thought, I wanna hold it. When my mom let me hold it, I accidently touched the hot part, threw it down and stepped on it with my bare feet. “OUCHEY!” I exclaimedL.

To this day I still have that repulsive blemish on the soul of my foot. The memory wasn’t all bad though. It was one of my first lessons in fireworks safety and common sense. It seems that my most vivid memories are those in which I have grasped a great knowledge or understanding of something. Even if it is something as obvious as grabbing the right end of a sparkler, it will become slashed into my memory forever.

Treasure Island: Imagery

I think the dominant literary element is imagery. Every page of Treasure Island is packed with figurative language and very descriptive details. Many people have many different views on pirates. In this story, Robert Louis Stevenson gives his version of the infamous sea dogs with rich images of both, their rotten, drunken and violent attitudes along with their smelly scents. I also noticed that at every major table turning event, the author uses even more imagery to give readers the clear image and importance of what has just happened. Without the abundant use of imagery in this novel I don’t believe that it would be nearly as entrancing.

Outside Reading

For my outside reading assignment I am reading Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. So far I am enjoying this book. It grabbed my attention from the first page. It describes a seafaring man with a big sea-chest beneath his arm approaching the inn that the main character’s family owns. At this point I could tell that the story would be full of pirates and adventure.
So far, I think the dominant literary element is imagery. There isn’t a lot of it but I haven’t found very many cases of the other elements so imagery is probably the best choice. I am only about one fifth of the way through the book so I’m expecting this to change. I think the author used imagery in the way he did to enhance the setting of the story. For example, when something sad or bad is going to happen, he foreshadows it by creating a bitter cold or dreary, rainy atmosphere.
The tone in Treasure Island­ shifts from chapter to chapter but the chapter that sticks out with having the strongest tone would be Black Dog. In this chapter vexed would be the obvious tone. When Black Dog comes to visit the captain, the meeting is full of anger. They soon begin yelling at each other and then they each draw their swords and battle.