Molly-a great one of many friends

My dear friend Molly, tall and narrow. She has long pale blond hair, gentle, yet piercing blue eyes, a regal nose, and a mouth with a sassy attitude. Overall she is very fair in complexion and manners. She hangs out at home with music blaring, her many animals wondering around and shedding everywhere. Booda, her most beloved of pets, a black weimeraner mix whom she dotes upon, many a time giving him the second half of her bed rather then her friends in the event of a sleep over. Molly has a gigantic heart and often says things like "Come along children" and is so sweet and funny.

She is slightly shy and seems anti-social at times, though she isn't...just slightly subdued and introverted. She is very creative, unique and friendly. Molly is a wonderful individual and has a calm, comforting, sometimes parental way about her. I'm so lucky to have had her as a friend since kindergarten, nearly ten years!

Fire drills...

Back when I was a little child, not yet in school, I remember my father coming up the stairs to where my siblings Lily and Walker, and I were watching Fern Gully and eating popcorn with Bragg's and yeast. He knelt down and told us about what to do if there was a fire or an earthquake. He told us that if the fire alarm went off we had to get out of the house, with the usual stay low, touch the door knob to see if it's warm, all the stuff you learn in the Smokie the Bear trailer at the fair. He said that once we got out we had to go to the specified place down the block from our home.
Later once we did one practice without the alarm he told us that he would make a "fire drill" without telling us sometime that day. so we went back to our movie and snacks content and excited for what was to come.
BEEP!!! BEEEP!!! BEEEPP!
The alarm went off and we calmly walk out of the house and down the block and found dad waiting right where he was supposed to be. As he walked us back to our house he told us what a great job we had done and brought us home and made us a delicious dinner.
THE END

The Joy Luck Club: Point of View

The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan is made up of a pile of stories from the lives of four Chinese immigrants and there daughters. Tan wrote it with this structure to really go into depth about the events and tribulations these women face. It gives a even understanding of all characters from there own perspective and that of others.
The book shows each person as a child and as an adult, revealing the difference between the lives of the American born daughters and the very traditional mothers. The mothers express their fear for their spoilt daughters and their cushy American ways and the daughters feel smothered and embarrassed by their parents' seemingly ridiculous and picky lifestyle. Tan shows the way that the younger girls reject their heritage and the way their mothers press it upon them.
This is a great book and I would recommend it to people who love realistic stories of life and beautifully bright discriptions.

The Joy Luck Club

So far The Joy Luck Club has been a compelling and interesting read. The first few pages were slow but not in such a way that it was hard to read.
The book is separated into memories from all the different characters and each person describes their situations with so much vivid detail, it is almost hard to keep up with what is going on. I think there may be a more dominant feature that I just don't see, sliding beneath my radar, evading my attention.
I think is written this way to show the bright colors that most associate with the Chinese culture. It also expresses the intense emotions that every dramatic mini story contains.
Each characters story shows the different personality and arduously trying events person shares. The tone goes from sad, to happy, to lost or rebellious from chapter to chapter and at first I did not understand the format of this book and it really confused me. All and all, I am really enjoying this book at this point.