Best Friend

One of my best friends is Katherine Frank. We met in fourth grade and have been very close ever since. She is very athletic and passionate about her sports. She is an amazing swimmer and can play any sport she wants if she puts her mind to it. Katherine seems shy at first, but once she warms up to you, she is very bubbly and has a funny sarcastic sense of humor. She stands about 5'9 with brown hair and hazel eyes.

Though Katherine's personality may seem introvert, underneath that is a very artistic, creative, fun person. You can tell a lot about katherine from walking in her room; covered with 43 elephants and a ton of picture of her friends. She is one of the most easy going people I know. We can sit in her room for hours, doing absolutely nothing, and never get bored. She is a very reliable friend and I know she will always be there for me.

Earliest memory

One of my earliest memories was meeting Noelle in kindergarten. I thought she was pretty and she liked me hair bow, it was as simple as that. We've been best friends ever since that first day of kindergarten. We both had quite the attitude as 6 year olds. Everything was "pathetic" in our eyes. Me and Noelle were inseparable. We even shared the boy we were madly in love with. He was a fourth grader at the time. Those kindergarten boys just weren't cutting it.

I will never forget our kindergarten graduation play we had to do in front of the school. Noelle and I, being way too cool for school, refused to participate as the other students did. While all the other kids would be singing and doing all the hand motions, we would stand there next to each other acting like it was the most stupid thing on earth. Although Noelle and I quickly outgrew our "we're too good for this" stage, I'll never forget my kindergarten year and meeting a friend I know will always be there.

The metamorphosis- imagery

Franz Kafka, the author of The metamorphosis, uses imagery to describe the main character, Gregor. He uses strong imagery, making clear descriptions of waking up as a cockroach. He uses imagery all the way through the story, throughout the decline of Gregor's life. This was a very important element in the story.

Without strong imagery the book would've been very dull. No one knows what it would be like to all the sudden wake up one morning as a giant cockroach. The author did a very good job of describing that through his use of vivid imagery. I had a clear idea in my head throughout the story all the way leading up to the main characters death.

Outside Reading.

I am reading The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. I chose this book because of Keenan's very exciting, long, booktalk. This book drew me in from the very beginning. If a book isn't interesting from the start, I usually have a very hard time reading it, but this captivated me from the very first page. I'm not very far along yet but so far the main character is just very confused as to why he has turned into a bug. Imagery definitely is the dominant literary element in the book. The author has to use a lot of imagery to describe what it's like to wake up as a giant insect.