personal reflection

Significant Characteristic

The First Part Last 

Johnson, Angela. The first part last. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003. Print.

Foreshading is an element that gives clues off in the book for what is going to happen next or later on in the plot. The book The First Part Last is an great example of foreshading because the book Angela Johnson had wrote was jumping back and forth with issues these two teenagers were having with life and the then's and now's. An great example in the book would be when the baby was already born (Feather) and Bobby the dad was raising the child all by himself and then later on in the plot the mother has died when she had the baby. So therefore making this story an element of foreshading.

"If she hollers, shes mine. if she needs to be changed , she is always mine in the dictionary next to "sitter", there is not a picture of grandma . it's time to grow up Too late , you're out of time . Be a grown-up "

This quote i thought really gave a good example of foreshading because it was one of the parts in the book were it was a now and its was the present time instead of the past.

Pathos is an element where anything in the passage that tugs at your heart strings. Think of the words sympathy or pathetic that makes you think of pathos in your story . In the story The First Part Last I think Angela Johnson has made the mood in the story a Symantec feeling and there were various parts in the book that touched my heart and  made me feel sad for Bobby.Therefore this story is an element of pathos .

"Put  that baby down , Bobby . I swear she's going to think the whole world is your face "

This quote from The Best Part Last really gives a good idea of why this book is an pathos element and it shows that Angela Johnson want's me/ the reader  to feel sad for Bobby or feel something for him and Angela does a good job of showing this in the book. There is a'lot of moments when i have felt this way about Bobby.

Life is full of beauty.  Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest, and fight for your dreams." says Sally, the first day I met her at the YMCA camp for disabilities. She is a mystified nerdy girl.who didnt care that I am ugly and different from others. I just moved here from PEI.  Roy is my name.  When I was born, my great great Aunt put a curse on me. I had scares all over my body, odd tattoos markings , chunks of skin hanging on parts of my body and had no hair. Beauty isn't something I have. My dad move me into a house alone were I had a blind man that home schools me as I never went to school. I have only talked to my mother once when I was five before I started to become this "thing".  I'll never forget those words that she said before she lefted me," The future belongs to who believes in beauty of their dreams". I never believed that, as I look like a walking creature that nobody accepts for the person I am inside. My dream is to be a normal person and for my true beauty to peak its self out. On my sixteenth birthday I made a wish to become beautiful and for someone to love me again.  I opened my eyes, nothing changed I still looked like a freak.  Finally I gave up and said to my self "I'm beautiful in my own way ." I have to love myself . I have amazing friend like Sally who didnt care what I looked like. I'm ugly on the outside but its the inside beauty that matters and for me that makes a beautiful thing in this world.

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” says Sally Love the first day i have ever met her at the YMCA camp . She is a very wise girl that everyone seems to go to. She's a smarty pants maybe even to smart for me. She has the long blonde straight hair about 5'3 skinny and has the nerdy glasses that suit her very well.She always talks to me and i don't know why. I'm ugly , not smart 6' and don't dress like what she does at all . I don't fit in to well i just moved here from Prince Edward Island. Roy is my name and the only child in our family.I don't fit in well with beauty like others . Ever since my parents were young my great great aunt had put a curse on the 2nd baby boy born in our family , lucky me i had to be the 2nd born boy.I suffer scares all over my body . Tattoos that i don't know what they mean chunks of skin out of my skin and no hair on my body. Let's just says i'm an ugly i'm 16 now and living in hell my whole life. Beauty isn't something that comes and goes for me i got per ugliness. My dad made me move into a house alone were i have a blind man that home school because i'm to scared to go to school nore does my dad want me to go there anyways he is to embarrassed. Sometimes i will go to the YMCA camp were i had met sally but only people will dissablities go there.I only go there to clear my head or to see sally sometimes.I have only met my mother once when i was 5 years old before i started to become this "thing". I'll never forget though's words that came out of her mouth  the day she lefted me , " The future belongs to who believe in beauty of their dreams".I never believed it because i always thought "How am i suppose to be beautiful or handsome when looking like a walking creature that Nobody will ever love". I dream everyday that this "thing" will just go away and some beauty will peak out inside of me,but it hasn't or ever will. This month i had turned 16 i made a wish that id become beautiful and someone will love me again. Sally had made me a cake and when i blew out the candles and wished upon a star , i could feel something different in me. Don't know if it was the wisdom from Sally all the time or if it was faith. After awhile nothing had changed i still had my scares , tattoos and no hair. Finally i gave up and said to my self "I'm beautiful in my own way ". I realized i had a amazing life , amazing people in my life . Brett hemmer the blind man , Suzie Mckay my made and Sally love my only bestfriend . I found the person deep inside me that didn't care what i looked like or cared what people thought of me. I knew i looked bad on the outside  but i have people that love me  for the inside and that makes a beautiful thing in this world.