Thou shall use thy diction!!

My Halloween costume this year is Mafia Spy Woman.  My original idea was to ignore Halloween, but don any old thing we had in our abode for handing out treats to the young ones.  I was then invited to a costume gathering and had very little time to throw together a costume.  I considered many outfits and requested ideas from my family and friends.

The first person I got opinions from was my mother.  She gave me two ideas: making a duct tape costume and a jellyfish.  Making a duct tape costume in only one week seemed like too much labor.  For the jellyfish costume she suggested I locate an umbrella and attach streamers to it.  She even had the courage to suggest I get a clear umbrella because "I could have sooo much fun with it!"  There are a few things in the wrong with that.  First, would I fancy carrying that umbrella around all night? I do not care to think so.  Second, am I a mere five year-old?  Where did you get that idea, mother? Family Fun?  No way would I receive any respect for that outfit.  I talked to another friend who wanted me to be a bumblebee which was not that bad of an idea but I had no time.  Finally, when my friend was driving me to ballet, I suggested that she should assist me with finding a costume idea.  She rambled on with ideas until I heard the golden word: Mafia.  It was supreme! I had found my Hallow's Eve costume!

 

My costume consists of a black cocktail dress underneath a light blue trench coat.  I will acessorize with a fedora, black high heels and a Nerf gun.  On the actual day of Halloween, I am chaperoning my little neighbors around the vicinity our community.  It will be cold and I may include a pair of black tights in my undercover fashion statement.  To carry my rewards for traversing the neighborhood in painful shoes, I am planning on pilfering my mother's briefcase.  I am expecting this will be a succesfull Halloween.

My Own Little World

I have never really LOVED writing but I've always had fun with it by adding in my own personal style.  I have a few favorites spanning from third grade until ninth. Enjoy!

9th: My favorite writing assignment (this year) is the first day letter.  I enjoyed writing that because I could add my own commentary and ideas.  I also liked the topic of the letter; ME!  I find it easy and fun to write about myself because I know tons about me!  This may sound conceited but really? Don't we all feel the same way?

6th: This year we started learning about how to write haikus.  Again, poems and I aren't the best of friends so I wasn't super duper excited.  As we got deeper into them, I started to enjoy writing them and they came easier to me.  I wrote about summer, asian things (because thats what all haikus are about), beluga whales and my neighbors. 

2nd-3rd:  These two years I enjoyed two different writing assignments. I had the same teacher both years and we had this one big class project every year where we would build a miniature city in the center of our classroom.  We would divide the floor into nine sections and split into groups of three or four.  Each group would get a square and every member got to design three buildings to put in the square.  We had to write about the buildings and their purpose.  This was fun because we got to build the stores and buisness out of shoe boxes and show the class our interests.  The other assignment I liked was free writing.  We got time to write our own fictional stories and share them with the class if we wanted.  Some of my favorite stories were ones about my classmates and me in the future and different mysteries we encountered.  Another one I remembered was a story about a giant, evil chicken nugget.  I was a weird child.  Many people I know would argue that I still am.

This concludes my writing history.  I hope I didn't bore you.  If you have any questions comment or ask me in person!

Wuthering Heights: The Story of Annoying People

So far there hasn't been a major conflict in Wuthering Heights.  There have been small conflicts between the characters but everything has been resolved quickly. The characters are mostly whiny people who sit around and create drama.  The narrorator, Ellen Dean, will fill everyone in on other character's buisness.  I suppose that is her job as the narrorator but I think she should let the readers know secrets and what's happening but  not the other characters.  My opinion of Cathy is she is way too controlling for her own good and she either needs to tell Heathcliff she loves him or let it go.  I'm only on chapter 11 and it's starting to get on my nerves.  Hindley needs to get over his aversion to Heathcliff because he's not going anywhere.  Plus, violence isn't the answer unless you are in the army, which he's not.  And Heathcliff just seems to be in the middle of everyone's problems.  If he doesn't want Cathy to believe he is below her, he should go out and get a job.  Cathy and Heathcliff's relationship is mostly a waste of time because they love eachother too much to care about other people and how they are hurting them.  Books are made up of characters and when these characters are obnoxious, there isn't much you can do.

I am going to pick characters for my final project because they are crucial to any story, especially Wuthering Heights. The only conflicts are between the characters in this book and there would not be much of a story without these characters and their flaws.

This book relates to the Gossip Girl series because their characters both ruin eachother's lives.  Their main purpose is to be better than their peers.  These stories are set 200 years apart and they have the same message: Gossip Hurts.

I don't have very many ideas for the final project except I know I want to focus on the character's traits.  Not what they did in the story but their personalities, flaws and good traits.  Maybe I will think about what happened if they lived in the present and how people would treat them now or something similar to that.  It's gonna be interesting either way...