Informal vs Formal Diction

         Goodness gracious this here week had not been a bundle er joy fur me. I have not been thur most cumfortable considerin that I have got all this here homework to do. I reckon that I have had more than ya’ll can imagine. I can’t wait till this weeken gets here. I got me so many plans! It’ll be so much fun! I’m gonna be hootin and holleran my way to the movies and the mall. But this week is not in my fava. You wana know why? Well, it has to do with the fact that I’ve a gotten too many papers here to work on. My classes have been gettin longa and longa since school started. I’va got more work and less time to do things. But I guess that’s the way high school goes. I havent gotten much sleep for the past few nighs becuz I’ve been workin my tail bone off just tryin to get all my work dun. Is not an easy task, to get everythin dun in time.
          Today, as I was gettin on the bus, a major headache just hit me like a hurricane hits a town. I just wanted to get back home and rest till it was ova. But this here bus was not helpin my headache at er, it was loud an noisy an it started to smell bad. I just about felt like gettin off ther bus and walkin home from the next stop. I stayed an closed my eyes and just waited. Waited fur that bus to come to my stop wher I could happily get off. Finally, fresh air at last, I walked into my house and starded to ger goin on my homework. Well I better hit the hay, its gettin late an I still gotta lotta work to do. Good nigh, sleep tigh, don you let those bed bugs bite ya’ll hear? Nighty night.

Extra Credit Blog

I have always loved writing. It was my favorite thing to do in Elementary and Middle school. I always felt like that was the one talent I had, but then I realized that there was more elements than words on paper. I actually have a few pieces of my own writing that I really enjoy. One off the top of my head is my song/poem for my 6 year old cousin Charley Beers. She recently died do to an illness that her body just couldn’t fight off. They were just the symptoms of the flue but she felt worse than she seemed. In the morning the next day, she left everyone in the hospital bed. I was just walking out of the weight room feeling good when I got a phone call that I wasn’t expecting or wanting. After the news and many tears, I decided to write a song for her, family, and friends. I am proud of it because she was such a special girl that she inspired me to write a song in her honor. It’s not a long song and doesn’t have a tune but it’s called ANGEL IN THE HEAVENS. I enjoyed writing this because I got to think of all the memories I have of her. I got to cry and release the pain through lyrics and music. Here it is:
    ANGEL IN THE HEAVENS
You left too soon. So much of your life hasn’t been discovered. You left without saying goodbye and left without a trace. Life has been hectic, tears have been shed all because of you. All because of you.
    Angel in the heavens wont you come down tonight. Angel in the heavens please don’t say goodbye. You don’t deserve to go, your much to young and not ready to leave this world. Wont you stay a little longer with me.
    You slipped out of your mother’s arms to join him in the sky, you knew it was time to go, time to say goodbye. Your body lies lifeless but your spirit runs free. This is not a time for sorrow but a time for celebration you see. She lived life to the fullest, made everyone’s days, danced and sung and spread joy from her heart. Now all we have is those memories of her to live off of.
    Angel in the heavens wont you come down tonight. Angel in the heavens please don’t say goodbye. You don’t deserve to go, your much to young and not ready to leave this world. Wont you stay a little longer with me.
    Our little girl, the one we all know and love is with us all the time. Don’t you hear his whispers n the wind, see her smile in the sun, feel her love when it rains and her spirit all around. This special girl will always be with us to stay. To never leave and to sit and play. Thank you lord for giving us this gift. This gift full of hope, love, joy and most of all full of you. Thank you for sharing her with us, she really is her own. Her own star, her own dream and now she is yours.   
    Angel in the heavens wont you come down tonight. Angel in the heavens please don’t say goodbye. You don’t deserve to go, your much to young and not ready to leave this world. Wont you stay a little longer with me. Angel in the heavens... wont you come down tonight. Angel in the heavens... goodnight
She was the reason that I wrote this song and started writing more pieces. In this piece, I am telling about the pain that we went through and what it would have looked like in third person. Her spirit will always be with us and she will always be in our hearts. Charley Beers is such an inspiration. All of the 6 and ½ years that she lived, she lived to the fullest. She was so much mature than anyone would think. Instead of being taught lessons, she was the one sharing and telling people what was right from wrong. She would have grown up to be an amazing person. So that is why I wrote a song about her. About her life, memories and more. She was the one that brought the song up in me, I just wrote the lyrics on a piece of paper. She really was an angel.

Outside Reading: Slaughterhouse-five

          To be honest Slaughterhouse-five is not one of my favorite books. The beginning is confusing to me, other people might not think so. I don’t know if this book is about Kurt and his life or someone else. Im not sure if the Billy Pilgrim story is now the rest of the novel or not. The book has some foul language, which I try to ignore, and overall it is boring. There is not much excitement where I am at and I am hoping that it will get better. I am having a hard time explaining my thoughts on the book, it’s hard to get the right wording on what I think. From hearing about what people say on about the book, I am hoping that my perspective on it will change and I’ll enjoy it more.

          In Slaughterhouse-five, there are several main and or interesting characters but Billy Pilgrim is the main guy. He is a time traveler. Billy says that the Tralfamadorians, from planet Tralfamadore, kidnaped him and took him to his planet. Billy is able to travel in the past, present and future but he has no control over when he goes and where he goes. Billy can go from being at the YMCA learning to swim with his dad to being and 20-40 and falling asleep during his work. He always goes back to World War ll being beat up by Weary because he thinks that Billy is disappearing and or hiding from him and Weary doesn’t like it. Right now Weary and Billy just heard the sound of the Scouts being shot. The Germans had just striped Billy and Weary of their good clothes and items and took them back to be prisoners of war.
           I can’t say that I can relate any other book with this one. I haven’t read a book like this one before except in history. The way it is written sounds like something a text book or journal of that time would say. Slaughterhouse-five is interesting when it comes to be compared with other novels. There isn’t much I can say in this question/section of my blog because I am blank. My thoughts are getting to me but I am having a hard time typing them up. Well I guess that Slaughterhouse-five and Shiver/Linger have something in common, both of the novels take place in the woods. The woods is one of the main settings where all the action takes place. Billy Pilgrim is a soldier of World War ll, he walks through, around and in the woods all the time for protection, orders (he was told to) or that’s where he was positioned. In the other novels I mentioned, a lot of the action takes place in the woods and the outdoors. Grace, the main character, is in love with a wolf named Sam, in Linger (book number 1) you find out that Sam isn’t just any ordinary wolf, he is able to change into a human along with a number of other “people”. Anyways, the action and climax of the novel is bound to be found/ read about being in the woods.

          For the project i think that I might make a poster or draw a scene/part of the book. Im not one-hundred percent sure on what I want to do or what would be a good idea to do but I have a few things in mind so I’m not totally blank. I think that it would be fun to do some sort of painting but I don’t know the image to paint. I can’t paint the cover of the book because there is no picture. Maybe I could write a poem about the book, it might be challenging but it is unique.... but like I said, I’m not totally positive on my idea.