Humor's Role

In the story Angela's Ashes humor is use from time to time to lighten up the mood and also to bring out character. In the story the irony and also the ways that the characters interact create humor. Humor by it self can be style for a story but it can also be mixed with many other styles.  Different styles mixed together create different effects. With a sad story and a touch of humor from here to there the story has more ups and downs, and with ups and downs the story would be more interesting. It is because if the story only had sad event occur then the story would be very depressing and difficult to read. However with bits of humor added inside reader would think it is less depressing and would want to read on. Humor can also act as distraction in a sad story. It takes the attention off of the main sad event, and then when they jump back into the event, the event would hit the readers hard.

Sick

As I was lying in bed, I heard kids playing and laughing in the playground below my apartment building. I couldn't  help but wonder what my friends at school were doing. Playing soccer, basketball, and card games. I wanted to be there with them, but I was at home with a horrible fever. I woke up in the middle of the night before and felt cold under three layers of blankets. My head was spinning and burning even though my body was cold. I rarely get sick, but if I do get sick I get it hard and it last longer than usual. I was throwing up constantly, and I couldn't eat anything because of that. I stayed home all day and in bed the whole time too. I couldn't eat anything and also didn't want to eat anything. I only drank water and Gatorade to keep my body from dehydrating. I felt horrible, it was a sensation that is so difficult to describe. Theo only thing I can say is that I wish it never happens to you.

Perspective

Different perspectives can cause the readers to receive different views of one events. With that it can cause a different emotional element and also changes the meaning of the event. One character may view the event as something unimportant but to another character may mean the world to. If a writer was to write a story about someone he/she knew he/she would have a greater emotional attachment to that character (this also appeals to settings and events). In memoirs writers reveal a important event that occurred in their life. Memoirs are more like a strip of the most important information from a wiki page, and the biography being the wiki page. Also the style used to write memoirs are usually more story like and less textbook styled. Perspective is a powerful tool it may get you to see only the detail the author wants you to see but blinds you from everything else. It is used a lot in the writing of history. History is never written in a third-person who knows it all and reveals it all. It is usually written from a perspective that would make the country the book is published in more powerful or less weak. You could read about the same historical event from three or four different countries textbooks and each would have it own twist to it.

Writing in a Style

Dear all PAS students and faculty members,
Good morning, PAS is a great school with great people inside of it. To be such a great school there are standards to be maintained. Everyone who is a Pas student, teacher, or staff is the best. There is no doubt about that. I am very proud to take part in such a great educational system and to get to meet all you wonderful kids. However to insure that we stay the best we must keep our environment clean. As I walked into the main office this morning I took a glance at the sofa area and noticed it was filled with trash. Empty plastic bottles, left over dinner, and all sorts of trash. This is the last warning I am giving out to the you students. If I see any one leave trash at the sofa area again I will immediately hand out a detention. I will now sit at the Door of the main office and watch the sofa area 24-7.

Dear PAS students,
I am very unhappy about what our community has become. The sofa area is not a area for students to go an leave trash at. This is ridiculous! How has the students at this school become so responsible? I am very displeased, this is not to happen again.

Dear fellow PAS classmates,
I have noticed the amount of increasing trash pilled up at the sofa area. I would like to remind you that we should keep our learning environment clean, and be responsible of your own trash. Don't rely on the cleaning lady to throw your trash away for you. Also just a friendly reminder, recycle. Thank you

Two Styles?

In the article that Lahiri wrote about her life as an Indian-American she mentioned that she always tried to hide her cultural background to the other kids. She learns from both cultures and learns to be proud of being both when she become older. When she was young she was afraid of her friends knowing about her other cultural background but when she became older she was proud to have another culture affect her as a person. Since she is the first generation of children after her parents moved from India to America she was more exposed to Indian cultures. As compared to other families which have already stayed in America for a couple of generations, which would be exposed to less Indian cultures and more easily blend into the American culture. Yet for Lahiri she has the same struggle as other immigrants do, trying to blend in without showing their former cultural backgrounds. Lahiri uses a style which is very informative and entertaining. The figurative language she uses seems to be more appealing to me than it would be if she used less figurative words. 

Taking a Leap

Everyone takes risks in their lives, some do it more than others and find it rewarding. However risks are not always rewarded, a lot of the time risk lead to hazards and bad things to happen. Risk could be the right thing to do if the circumstance provided no other option. However people still take risk when there are other safer options because the outcome may be better than taking the easy way. Sacrifice is also a risk since the sacrifice you made may not always help. People make many different types of sacrifice for their loved ones, they can very from using money to trading in your own life for theirs. Most of my friends have taken risks to help me before. Some lied to teachers to get me out of trouble and some took the punishment for me. As for me, I have taken the same risks that my friends have taken for me. To be specific one of the times my friend who didn't understand any Chinese at all, accidental threw a basketball out over the fence and onto the street where it hit it someone riding a bicycle. The person have been hit was really mad and threatened my friend. The biker said that he was going to call the police if he didn't apologize and give him money to go to the hospital. My friend was shocked and he froze, therefore I went up to the biker and tried to calm him down. I ended up being yelled at because I took the blame for the throw and after about half an hour of yelling by the man I ended up in the principals office and got "yelled" at for another  twenty minutes. Why did I do it I am not sure but all I know is that if it was my friend who confronted the man the situation would have been a lot worse. So I guess it all comes down to who you are taking the risk for and if you do take the risk would it remedy the situation.

Nature's rule

I was in third grade when I went on my first hike, one of the only times that I was taken out of the city. We took a shuttle bus to the "Yellow Mountain", and once we arrived I looked up and saw a huge mass of green and brown. I was amazed by what I saw and I began to appreciated the world I live in more. The thing that surprised me the most was how big the mountain was and how much life was on top of it. There were birds, monkey, lizards, and all sorts of animals living up on the mountain. Nature plays a very important role in life, due to the fact that it provides us with food and recourses to survive with. In many books or poem writers add nature into their setting, however each author can use it in a different style. They can use different tone and choices of words to describe the surrounding. Nature could be depicted as a scary and dangerous place if the write was to use gloomy and dark toned words as compared to lively and bright words.