Formal Vs. Informal Diction

      This morning I woke up earlier than I have been this last week. A delicious smell wafted into my room from the kitchen. A few steps in that direction told me that my mother had made blueberry muffins for breakfast. I walked into the kitchen languidly. My mother told me that they would be ready in about 10 minutes, and I should get ready for school until then. I got ready for school, and soon enough breakfast was ready. As a pulled apart my warm blueberry muffin and ate it, warmness flooded through my body. I felt myself wake up for the day. After a brisk walk through the crisp, chilly morning, I arrived at school.
    With a good breakfast, and enough time for me to wake up, my day was much more enjoyable. For one's day to be pleasant, one must have a proper beginning: a smart morning ritual, a healthy breakfast, and something to be engerized about. I find that my day is more satisfactory when I have a proficient morning. Starting a day on a positive note is a reflection on how the following hours will play out because if the day starts out well one's midset is so. One must imagine their day continuing to be as successful as its start. An excellent day starts out as such, and the only secret to having an unsurpassed day is to start it out with outstanding measures!

Outside Reading: The Bean Trees

    For my outside reading I am reading The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver. This far I am at chapter eleven, and I really like it. I think the plot is interesting, and the characters are fun to read about. The main character, Taylor, is a really interesting character. When she left her home town in Kentucky she decided she didn't like her real name (Missy) and vowed to find a new name on her trip. I don't really think the name Taylor fits her, but it's a fine name.

    A literary element that is interesting is setting. The book starts out in Kentucky, but Taylor drives across the country eventually stopping in Tuscan, Arizona. The setting of Tuscan is a lot like Taylor's character. Taylor is interesting, funny, sassy, and quirky. I think Tuscan is the same way; it's full of random little things. For instance, "Jesus is Lord Used Tires" the tire shop where Taylor is employed. Tuscan is a great place for the setting because of the feeling it has. It's a sweet place, but at the same time it has a darker side to it. It's something that I  have yet to figure out, just as I have to figure Taylor out.

    This book reminds me of the book called The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. They aren't really that similar of books, but I just keep thinking about The Glass Castle whenever I read The Bean Trees. In The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls's family moves around a lot in SouthWest U.S., and The Bean Trees is in Arizona. Both books are centered around relationships between people. In The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls's father is an alcoholic, and her mother doesn't stick up for herself. They move around living like nomads with little money and few possessions. In The Bean Trees Taylor travels with not much of anything, picks up Turtle, and continues on her way, settling in Tuscan. She makes new friends, and starts a new life. The two books really aren't that similar, but they remind me of each other, so there is definitely commonalities.

     For my creative project I was thinking about doing some sort of map that represents Taylor's trip from Kentucky to Tuscan. I would have little stops along the way representing the significant places she went. I will have an enlarged part for Tuscan because there are so many important places. I don't know where the book is going, so this may not work, but I hope it does. It would just be a representation of how Taylor grows as she moves during the novel.

    I hope you liked this post! Thanks for reading!