My Best Friend!

My best friend is Nikki S. For many of the obvious reasons. We laugh at the same stupid things and agree on most of the same topics. We also have our own strange language called izzity, where we can have long conversations about anything without anyone being able to tell what we are saying. She is tall, a brunette and Jock. ha ha. She would hate me for saying that, but that's how our relationship is, we are jerks to each other. When we talk it seems like we hate each other, but if we talked nice to one another then we would laugh and say..."Well this is weird"... So yes she is a huge sports person. She plays basketball and softball. Softball is her life as she would say. That's all she does, literally. She is dedicated to the point of it almost being annoying. Other than playing, She watches a lot of sports. ESPN is like her favorite channel. If its not baseball its football or basketball. But other than sports she is a huge...HUGE...HUGE Will Smith fan. Ask her anything about him and she will know what the answer is. No pun intended. There are multiply pictures pasted on her wall. She says she is married to him constantly. Though everyone tries to tell her of the massive age difference and that she is not, she just brushes it off and says, "It's only 26 years..." and, "I like Jada Pinkett only because he likes her but,I know he really likes me not her." What else can I say... Maybe that in wood shop all she made was Willard Christopher Smith Jr. signs. Or maybe that she knows all of his songs and all 19 movies of his. ( Sad how I know all this to. This is how much I hang out with her). And also that she knows all his kids names first, middle and last. I could could go on but I don't want to. I think you get the picture. Besides there is the fact that I hate to say Nikki always seems to not act the smartest. She is, but she can fool you a lot. She is constantly trying to convince me otherwise. Yet she still hasn't. Let me give you a few good examples. Well for one she likes to purposely make herself look dingy. And sometimes she gets really super hyper and really funny and crazy. Its so bad that she is only this weird around me.

I guess this shows that Nikki is dedicated to what ever she sets her mind to. Which I'm glad about. I wouldn't want my best friend to always give up. Talk about lame. This shows that she is a loyal friend because though she loves sports she is good to her friends and family. Nikki is kinda a altruist and an ambivert. She helps people when she can is normal in the way that she likes to be around other people and by herself. She would be surprised that I'm talking like this. Usually its the opposite. But you can write a lot of different things about a friend you have had since 2nd grade... so yeah we're cool and stuff.

Earliest Memory

One of my earlist memories is in daycare when my friend got to start school before me. She got to have a special party where we made awesome beady braclets. I didn't like that everybody was talking to her. Why did she get a special party. No one cared that I was going to school and why did she start before me.

So I decided to not talk to anyone that way they would have to ask me whats wrong. But nobody did so I was sad all that day. Everybody seemed to like her more than me. I t wasn't fair. My day was really runed because of her. But luckily they through me a party later and I felt all better.

~Rebecca- Motif~

In Rebecca the strongest literary element was motif. The motif of the story was the Manderley. The Manderley is the large mansion that the main characters live in. It hold many secrets That are waiting to be told. The author uses the motif of the Manderley to enhance the characters. It enhances the characters by helping create the feeling that the characters are feeling.

I think that the motif is so strong in this book is because of what Manderley also means to the characters. To the characters like Maxim it represents the terrible past that he had there and is still haunting him. To Mrs. de Winters it reminds her the terrible events that once happened there and of Rebecca, the ex- wife, who seems to haunt the halls. But besides being scary the Manderley can also represent elegance and the great life that one must have living in a place like that.

Outside Reading

For my outside reading book, I am reading Rebecca. So far it is interesting but it is a little hard to get into. This is because it is slow in the beginning. It did immediately grab my attention because at the beginning the narrator starts talking about her past at the manderley which makes you want to read on. Out of the five literary elements imagery seem the most dominent because of how discriptive the author is. So far it seem pretty obvious.

I think the autor is using this to give a larger idea of what happen in the past at the manderley. it makes it more interesting to the reader to read about a discriptive detailed past. The tone of the book is nostaggic and dramatic because it is refferring to the past and the author is emotional about it. The tone doesn't change often. It stays the same so we it has the same feeling of not knowing or understanding what is happening.