Informal Diction? Formal Diction?

I don't know what happened in particular this week, maybe I could discuss a matter about my sister and how she is really cynical towards me and patronizes me all the time. My sister is always condescending, this week she could not stop lecturing me about anything. She even commented on what I ate, she was using a vexed tone and told me that I should make my own food even though I was not in a position to make the food. She snaps at me no matter what, she even confronts me and tells me that she doesn't like me... but then when a parent is around she acts all nice and like an angel.

So then I take up a disdainful attitude with her and this only makes the matter worse, but I think I have a more knowledgeable case than she does. She always says she acts the way she does to her friends as she does to me, but that is definitely not the case when she lectures me about something, also, we are only two years apart. I shouldn't have to be lectured by someone that's 16 when I am 14, what I don't get is that my mother actually acts in a kinder manner to her and doesn't really acknowledge my side. So mainly I have not had a very good week, it is full of bad temper's and people getting angry all the time.

Extra Credit

The one assignment I loved to do the most or am most proud of... I would have to say it was one of the assignments two years ago where my class had to write about our favorite place, the essay didn't have a particular name. This was one of my favorites because we got to write about our favorite spot, maybe on vacation, or maybe a spot we would like to go to because we read about it. I have always been proud of it as well because it was one of my best written pieces ever, at least I think it is, some people may think it isn't though.

If I recall, my essay was about Washington, and how may favorite spot was Seattle, I think it was because it was so close to Olympia. I think it wasn't the best subject to write about except for the fact that it was easier to compose than other places would've been. There have been an exceptional number of different places, some were even in Asia, at least I think so... Maybe I just think so because I am Asian and therefore I shall think about Asians. I have one last statement for everyone who reads this... ASIANS ARE AWESOMEEEE!!!!!... totally irrelevant but hey, this is extra credit.

Slaughter House V

My outside reading novel would be... Slaughter House V by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is enjoyable to some extent where I would have to be able to keep track of how and where the book bounces too in the storyline. The novel is about war, the book describes how bad war can be, and the theme is about how some people haven't considered how bad war can be. The book tries to explain war as best it can in a series of scenes, the only way someone would be able to follow this book is to have a mind that can grasp one situation as it reads another and connects the two some how.

The hardest thing to grasp is the plot, that is the one literary element that seems to be the hardest concept to get a hold on in this novel. The plot is something that isn't easily shown, because the book is about war and it twists and turns through scenes back and forth, the plot can change easily. That is the toughest and most difficult thing to grasp, the way the book twists from scene to scene, it seems illogical and unlikely to be connected but somehow it stays in one plot. The main plot is that the man is trying to tell people that war should try to be avoided but to some extent, doesn't necessarily matter, that people should try and not grief over ones death but just move on because that one person had lived in a different time.

This novel compares with another novel I had read, this book is called Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden. This story also tells about how war can be terrible and that it should be avoided, but it's from a closer point of view. Black Hawk Down tells of how a black ops helicopter crashes behind enemy lines, and it goes on from there in a close look at how terrible war really can be. I am still contemplating a way to present Slaughter House V in a project, but maybe I could use a PowerPoint or maybe I could use a skit, I am still thinking about it.

Extending the Theme... Personally

When I finished reading To Kill a Mockingbird, I thought that I had never really had an experience like what Scout had. Except, I never really had a Christmas that could've turned into that anyways. I guess I never really had any real experience like that is because I'm the baby in my family, so I'm the youngest. I usually get treated a bit better at times, or get teased by my older siblings, but in the end everything worked out and nothing bad ever happened.

The book To Kill a Mockingbird has taught me that there are hardships in life that some of us never learn as a child. I am one of those fortunate children that never had to put up with the problems of life, until I was close to becoming a teenager of course. But as well my life hasn't been the best, my family doesn't have a lot of money, so we have to think about financial issues. So to compromise with the financial issues, we have to cut back.

The thing we cut back on already has been some of the holidays, for example, Christmas. I haven't been having Christmas for years now, no gifts, no meetings, but sometimes we save up enough money. The book really cleared up my questions about how fortunate I was, to have a nice family that doesn't have many quarrels. But at the same time, in order to keep these things under control, money can be spent in place, so that makes the budget tighter. So this book has taught me that sometimes one has to trade one thing in exchange for another, like giving up holidays for a family that won't fight every week or so.