My Best Friend

. Out of all of my friends, I have one best friend. He is a normal height, weight etc. He is pretty much an overall beast. I became his friend the summer before fifth grade during the baseball season. I found him to be very nice and funny, making it easy for us to be friends. He's not the best joke maker, but even though most of jokes don't make sense, they still end up being funny. That's because he is just that kind of person that you can trust, so there's no reason at all on why you shouldn't be nice to him.

. Jacob is very outgoing and is nice to everyone, and when I say everyone, I am not kidding. If you saw him, he probably wouldn't look like the neatest person in the world, but you could definitely see his personality shine throughout the room. I think pretty much everyone in freshman class knows Jacob T. because of his great personality towards people. And I can also tell that that will always be his best attribute for the rest of his life. I could easily say that many other people also call Jacob their best friend too.

Earliest Memory

When I had to go to school for the first day of my life, I had weird feelings. I was nervous and excited. Scared and happy. I had a stomachache. I remember my parents walking me through many doors until we got to my classroom. In my first class there were about ten kids. They all looked nice and I could see that we were all nervous. Then the nice lady said hello to everyone and talked about how we had become big kids. We tried to learn names of new friends but gave up to play with the toys. I remember kids like me, happy everywhere. Playing with dinosaurs and cars. Coloring on paper and themselves.
What I remember from that day was that we were all happy and nice. All of us seemed to connect because we all knew we wanted our first memories to be nice. I barely remember times before that maybe because I knew that that was an important day for me, the start of the real life.

Slaughter-House Five IRONY

In Slaughterhouse five, Vonnegut uses his literary expertise to show that the dominant literary element is irony. I think Kurt Vonnegut used irony to not only make the story much more interesting, but also to show the true meanings of things without directly talking about it. For the whole book, he used twists and turns to make you think about what was really going on. Although it got a little confusing, Kurt did get his point across by the end of the book. And since he did keep me thinking from start to end, the main topic came out much clearer.

A strong example of irony I found was in the final chapter, at the very end.It is when the bird says 'poo-tee-weet?'. I find that very ironic because as an antiwar book, you would imagine the ending would send a huge blow against war and everything about it. But when you expect that big hit, it's just a little bird saying 'poo-tee-weet?'. What I think Vonnegut was trying to show was that poo-tee-weet and war both have one thing in common. Neither of them makes sense. Choosing this ending is probably the best way Vonnegut could end a antiwar novel because once you have finished, the meaning will forever be with you.

Outside Reading

Slaughterhouse five started confusing, but now I can see it's a very good book. It's an anti-war book and I can see that because the character speaks like he is against war. So far, the book has been easy, and the reading has gone by smoothly. I just want to get it over with, so even if there are boring parts, I don't really mind. One reoccurring element is definitely tone. It is obvious. Within the first five pages you know it's obvious. The way he talks about war, he is totally against it. It was written like this because it is an antiwar book, and the main character isn't a real big fan of the war. The tone of the book is based on his opinions. He thinks the war is a horrible thing and he wants his readers to know that too.