Life lessons

My uncle is a good man. He has taught me many things throughout my life. I was going out fishing with him once and when we got to where we kept the boat moored we found that somebody had stolen it from us. He didn't even get angry. He turned to me and said, "Nipote, tutte le persone hanno la capacita del male. E nostra scelta climatiche o non farlo." That has stuck with me to this day.

You see what my uncle said is very true. It applies to every person on the face of the earth. When I'm faced with a difficult decision or the choice of wether or not to do what I know I should I remember what my uncle said and, although it doesn't get easier, I know what I should do. I owe my uncle for this lesson he has taught me and hope that I can pass it on to someone else another time.

My best friend

The first thing about my best friend that you would notice is that he is very quiet. He is very wise. He seldom speaks and when he does people listen. He has an opinon about everything although he very rarely shares it. He is a short guy and is very fit although you couldn't tell it by looking at him.

My friend is definately an introvert. He likes keeping to himself and is very shy. He is an upright guy and has strong morals. His opinon is usually valued. He is also a smaller guy but that doesn't seem to have stopped him at all. He is a great guy, and has a great sense of humor. I've known him for my whole life and he is as close to me as a brother. His name is Jaymeson Mallory

Fishing

I grew up in the black hills at a place called Summit Lake. When I was younger every Saturday I would go fishing with my daddy very early in the mroning. We would get up, put on warm clothes, rubber boots and what I remember to be very cozy hats. Once we were dressed we would walk out to the lake and get our gear ready and in the boat. Then we would start up the 2.5 horse trolling motor and cast off.

Sometimes we would fish from the banks of the in the middle of the lake. Other times we would just troll for hours. There was one place at the far end of the lake that was full of stick thick mud on the bottom. This was my favorite place to fish because the lake was shallow here so the water was warm, sometimes I would spend more time swimming thatn fishing. To this day I love to fish.

Treasure Island - Irony

I think that the major literary element of Treasure Island is irony. Throughout the novel there have been many seperate instances in which the author, Robert Louis Stevenson, has used irony to give the book surprising twists or enexpected events. The type of Irony that seems to be most prevelant in this novel is situational irony.

I think Robert Louis Stevenson used irony to give the reader a more enjoyable experience reading the book. Another reason he might have used irony is to give the book more appeal to a lager audience. A person that reads a book and then tells a friend that the book has some crazy twists in it is probably leading to the friend reading the book. Over all I have enjoyed this book.

I swim in cans of peaches :)

I love to read. However, that doesn't always mean that I love what I read. Sometimes there are just those books that you can't get interested in for the life of you. They start out boring, continue boring, and if your lucky get somewhat interesting at the end. When I'm faced with a book like this I usually just continue through and read the whole thing. I don't usually read boring books for pleasure as so many of my classmates recommended to do during the book talks. This means that when confronted with a boring book it is usually an assignment and you have no choice but to read it.

When I can't read in a comfortable reading environment I usually just try harder. I live with two rambunctious siblings, in a small house. When I'm not home I'm either at school, which is always noisy, or with the rest of the football team, and not really able to read. If you concentrate on the book I'm sure that after awhile you'll get used to reading in a noisy place and tuning out the unwanted noise. And then what do you know, you have a new skill to use throughout life.

I enjoy reading historical fiction. It is one of my favorite genres and something I never grow tired of reading. I lik to read historical fiction because it not only teaches you about past events, places, and people but makes it a little more interesting and involving than your everday history textbook. Reading historical fiction you can feel like your actually there crossing mountains with Hannibal or at the battle of Gettysburg with Gen. Jackson. I like that.

We read fiction because it provides an escape from the monotamy of everyday life. Reading about what is real is no different from living it and sometimes that just isn't satisfying enough. We read fiction because it is more gripping than non-fiction. I can't remember the last time I was on the edge of my seat reading non-fiction whereas you get involved in many pieces of fiction.

Thank you for reading my blog.