2.28 Dicton Excersize

a) Thousand, birds, gentle, showers, starshine, weep, ripening

B) Elevation; plain, simple, commonplace, unordained
Sound; musical, poetic, lyrical, sing-songy

c) In the poem "Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep" by Mary Elizabeth Frye, the poet exudes a mournful, melodic, and quaint soft tone, in the line "I am in each lovely thing" Frye describes the loss of a life not as they are gone but they live on throughout the world around us, in out memories.

Interesting Artwork

So I've recently gotten a Stumble upon account and it's really helped me in reading the web. I love art so that is one of my selected topics and I feel so much more connected to the art world now. Anyway, I love what this guy is doing. It is sort of a half real, half unreal sort of style. It mixes the average with unordinary. It's very cool. I might even try doing it myself.

2.23 Diction Excersize

Earnest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms
a) swiftly, stirred, falling, orchard, pebbles, channels, dusty, crops, bare
b)Diction:Middle Diction- plain, unordained, simple
Connotation: Poetic- fluid, naturalistic, romanticism
Sound: Musical- pleasant, lyrical, enchanting
Concreteness: Concrete- tangible subject, personal experience, real, adventurous, light
c) Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, is a fluid naturalistic piece expressing a pleasant yet simple tone , sounding almost lyrical in describing this vivid scene.

Sidewalk man

Please look this up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY1Lr-yGtd8

Look up this link, I really recommend you do. I love looking at art and being able to watch artwork in the process is even better. This guy is really good at what he does. In this specific piece I love what he does with the place and bottle. They sort of resemble Mars to me.

The Last Song pgs. 1-13

I just recently decided to read the book The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks. I decided that I wanted to read it after a friend of mine had recommended it to me and I also have seen the movie before. I always hate watching the movie before reading the book because I feel that I cant make my own images for things and that I'm stuck with the ones in the movie. But, I heard this book was really good so I had to try it.

In the first chapter it talks about Ronnie, she is on the way to Georgia to visit her Dad with her brother. Her parents are divorced and from what I've read in the book so far the divorce was not a good one. Ronnie after her parents divorce took it very harshly. She turned to more dark clothes, and "is only friends with kids with at least 3 piercings" as her mom said. Also, in the book Ronnie tells her Dad that she is not playing the piano where I know is foreshadowing in the book because the piano us something that her dad and her share. The chapter also talks about how Ronnie has completely shut of her Dad and basically most of her life. Her grades plummeted and she didn't care about anything. She even got caught shoplifting. And she protests to her Mom during the entire car ride to Georgia about how she does not want to stay with her Dad. Although her Mom insists that she does go and basically forces her to.

The chapter also talks a little about Ronnie's brother Noah, who is very sweet and loves his Dad. He is like the common 9 year old hoping to get the approval of his father. Unlike Ronnie, Noah did not take the divorce out on the Dad and has been looking foreword to visit for a long time.

Overall, I really have enjoyed the book so far. Although it is not like the normal book choice that I would pick, I still really have enjoyed reading it. I like the way Sparks describes Ronnie, oddly enough, I like Ronnie's character even though she seems angry. I can't wait to read more into this book.