My Best Friend

One of my best friends is Ashley Simon. We met the summer of going into 6th grade when she moved into a new housing development which is where i moved into a few months before. She came to visit the neighborhood a few months before she was going to move into it to see what it was like. As she was walking her dog by my house she came across me and my sister washing my mom's car and spraying each other with water. We were laughing and we probably didnt give a very good first impression on her and her family as they began to talk to us about them moving into the neighborhood. A month or so later they moved into their house. Me and ashley became amediate friends one day as i was hanging out with my cousin. I started talking to her and then she joined me and my cousin in a game. It has been around 4 years since we first met and we have become great friends. We now have sleepovers that consist of watching movies while eating raw top romen, popcorn, and sometimes my homemade cheesy nacho's and then do yoga at 4:00 in the morning before we go to bed.
Ashley is very caring and is always there to talk to. Whenever you ask her for advise, she'll help you as best as she can... even if the answer is'nt what you want to here. Ashley is most definetly an extrovert. she's always willing to put what ever's going on with her aside to help a friend. She's always outgoing and everyone love's to hang out with her because she's just an all around likeable person and a awesome friend.

Memories

As a little girl i was trying to find my way in life, who i was, who i was going to be, what my talents were, and who i would look up to. My sister helped me for the most part. She was an artist, left handed, and a fantastic student. Now that i look back, i wanted to be just like her. later i found out that i was also left handed. i remember one time when my sister got a how to draw Spongebob Squarepants book, she decided to try to draw squidward, so i decided i would draw squidward too. apparently i was a pretty good drawer and my sister was pretty impressed considering the fact she's almost four years older than me. But the one part i could never be better than her at was at getting better grades than her... she's super smart and get's all A's except for the last two years in high school which she only got two B's in... she's very smart.

I still look up to my sister, but i still ponder how she always does so well in almost everything she does. she isnt pursuing art anymore, but i am. i love art, it's one of my passions, and i now look up to my grandpa for artistic advise. he's a fantastic artist and i wish to be as good as him someday.

the Catcher in the Rye: Irony

In "the Catcher in the Rye" the author used irony as the main literary element to help portray Holden's attitude about the world. In the book Holden is always sarcastic, he lies and then calls people phonies and always says he hates phonies. Holden is very hypocritical, he says he doesn't like when someone does something and then he goes on doing it himself. He does'nt really seem to realize that he's practically contradicting everything he says he hates by doing it himself because he continues to do those kindof things throughout the entire book.

Holden is very negative about everything. He randomly says throughout the book that something is depressing even if it's something really small. Irony helps to portray this whenever Holden finds something he doesnt like about a person because then he says it's depressing and continues boing the things that the other people are doing. Irony also shows how Holden seems to be unsure about things, he always changes his mind and continues to act like a phony even though he mentions in the book how he doesn't like phonies.

Outside Reading

The book im reading is Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. i havent read very much of it yet but i can already tell it's an awesome book. i think it's hilarious how Holdin describes old people, it made me laugh. This book drew in my attention almost right from the start. I think it's how Holden talks is what really drew in my attention. i was shocked to find out that the author uses low diction. I think it's really cool how the author portrays himself to be a teenager because of how well he wrote the main characters personallity, i feel that Holden is just like any other teen and can relate.
I have a feeling that the dominant literary element is irony. within the first 35 pages i had already sticky noted 6 literary elements that were irony. But im not really sure yet cause i havent gotten very far into the book yet.
I think the author used irony in the book to help portray Holden's personallity and how he can be sarcastic and can be hard to predict. He always brings up something random that can totally catch you off guard but that's partially what makes this book interesting.
Im thinking that the tone of the book is morallistic and vexed because Holden seems to get irritated and annoyed with other people really easily and judges how people look, just like he did with the old man and Ackley with his mossy looking teeth.

If you feel differently about the book or about what i think about it or have any opinions about what you think you could help me please comment to let me know because i'm having some slight difficulties with figuring some things out right now. THANK YOU! ;)