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. 

beauty

Beauty :
-.You can achieve beauty if you earn it or take care of it . Beauty comes inside of you . You can have your own beauty in different ways such as believing ,being loyal , being kind etc.  You could go on about how to achieve your own beauty.  Beauty can be a beautiful thing.  It can bring happiness to your self.   Some people think there beautiful and better then others therfore they start to hate and bring negative thoughts to people . I find that some people can be mean with beauty. It  isn't everything but in some cases it is.  Beauty comes natural to people . And if your not beautiful people can be cruel.  Beauty isn't just  looks, its more then what people think it is. Over the years people are changing their looks with plastic surgery, trying to be beautiful and changing their appearance.  But really you will always be the same person with the same beauty you have always had inside and outside.  Its not all about outer appearance beauty  and someday everyone will come together and realize it.  You are who you are, with the beauty with in yourself.
-."Outer beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person"- Amanda Peet 

- Amanda is saying that being Beautiful isn't everything its just something on the side. She says that if you look deep into someone you can see there true colors either there pretty or not you might have something in common with there personality inside instead of there looks. Most people don't look "skin deep" into each other because they just judge of how they look right away. Also Amanda is right when she says most the time it will get boring fast if you don't look skin deep . Beauty is inside of you and everyone will soon see it.-If you achieve beauty you might have pros and cons about beauty. It might be harder to find something you love because you are losing who you want to be and becoming what the world wants .But if you come "skin deep" beauty then you might still be beautiful but still have your personality inside of you and who you are inside of you. You will love your self for who you are and not care about if people judge you for your beauty or how you look because to you it isn't all about that.
-"A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you."-anonymous 

Charcter Traits

1.Friendly  "Nia's parents always treated me good and trusted me . ( personal )
2.Loving " she just smiles , though , unless you try to put her down , then she screams like it's the end of the world."( personal )
3.Fustratded "Cause i had to give Feather a bath it made everything late. i'd already been called into the guidance counselor's office twice" (phyical )
Bobby's life at this point isn't what he expected. Bobby's life is having some  ups and downs and Nia isn’t helping him out at all. Bobby is feeling Physical and Personal moods about Feather and his life . Feather is keeping him up all night with crying so he either has to change her or feed her or look after her. He is missing school grades going down or he is either  late for school or doesn't even go. Bobby isn't hanging out with his friend's all the time like he use to . He is really missing out with his friends. His friends growing up staying in school being kids and Bobby is staying at home with feather. Bobby is missing the time he use to spend with his friends and it is really effecting him. At one point J.L called him to come play basketball  and Bobby had feather and she was sleeping  and he just ran out of the house and forgot about feather .Bobby has the whole world on his shoulders and  he is trying to take care of feather and juggling school and is trying not to fail and be the best. Bobby is  trying his best to go through this and is getting his act together and is going to rise Feather the right way and be a father.

Supense or pathos

"How he'd gotten the keys to nelson's room .It's never  good to know too much about J.L has in the back of his head."
In this quote from the book is a flash back to before feather was born and how Bobby was in school and knew that the baby was coming and he still acted out in school. So i had picked this as a suspenseful moment in the book because it has a lot of moods in it such as is Bobby is ready for Nia to have a baby. Therefore this is a suspenseful moment and  it makes a bunch of  flash backs for if  Bobby is having a curious thoughts about Nia having feather because he is still a kid in school and still wants to do what kids to best and that's fool around . Bobby is Frustrated because he doesn’t know what to do . Bobby gets taken out of class because Nia had to go to the hospital or problems with feather  Bobby's flash back turns out to be good because in the ends Bobby is happy that Nia had Feather and that he is a loving dad that is going through ups and downs but is glad feather is born. This flash back was taken place at Bobbys school with his friends and turned into him leaving to go to the hospital for Nia.