1. How the writer use “the three blonds” as a hook is how she tells a short little story of how there were three girls with the same name and how she thinks having a common name would make her popular.

2. Details the writer uses in this paragraph are how she mentioned the part about her teacher mispronouncing her name several times and how she mentioned the kid with a chubby face who was laughing at her name that his face turned red. She also mentioned how excited she was to see her friends, but sometimes the first day of school is a nightmare for her, and how her ears were turning red with embarassment.

3. The writer uses the example of pencils to show how names are printed on them, and she couldn’t find the pencils with her name. This shows how she feels left out or known, making her name sound “unknown”.

4. How the writer wanted to take back about how much she hated her name was when her cousin told her what her name really meant in their language, which now made her proud of her name. There are times where people would hate their name just because people are having a hard time pronouncing it, but once you know the background of what your name means, you’d be proud of it.

The party was awesome…
With mouth-watering Asian cuisine that I wanted to eat the whole buffet, and crazy head-banging assembly of guests dancing to the adrenaline of hard rock music like blobs of jell-o, the entertaining party made me want to party like a rock star all night.

I got an A and I felt great…
Hours and hours of working with tag board paper, colored pencils, laptop, scissors, glue, and anything else that comes to mind of completing this massive project is mind killing, that I wanted to throw everything out the window. But all of this is worth it when I turned it in the next morning, feeling all sleepy with eye bags and a huge headache. When grades were given out, the girl next to me with huge glasses and wavy long hair had her hands folded as if she’s confident about her grade, but compared to me, I’m just biting my nails off feeling nervous about my grade. Instead, I jumped around the classroom all crazy waving my rubric of having my first A.

Mr. Stearns is the best teacher ever…
There are English teachers who are as boring that made their students fall asleep during lectures, while other English teachers who are very enthusiastic that they would read a story picture book to the class. Even though some teachers look scary with crazy hair or big bulging eyes, they can be fun and he best. Like Mr. Stearns who I thought was a scary teacher who actually has pretty cool curly hair after all and having enthusiasm towards his students while he teaches. This makes him one of the best teachers around.

The laptop is my best friend…
The laptop can do so many things other people can’t do such as having programs and other interesting things. These programs can be very entertaining that people lose track of time when they glanced at the clock and start stressing out, forgetting to pick up their pencil, paper, and textbook to start on homework, especially having ten minutes left until the laptop shuts off and didn’t start on their English paper! Even though laptops are as heavy as a textbook, it gives us even more weight in our backpacks, but gives us a time to amuse ourselves with computer games, My Space, and Meebo while having others procrastinate with homework.

Yesterday I was bored…
Yesterday, my parents left for work all day long, and my friends were all busy. This leaves me at home eating potato chips all day watching music videos on MTV.

1. How Rittenburg hooks the reader was by how he starts off mentioning the aspects of life that can apply to everyone, especially knowing what the future might have in store for him. He heard his parents having a conversation about his future, curious of why his father is saying it that way, but he is pretty confident that his future is going to be all right by going back to the photos of his great-grandparents and grandparents.

2. Some specifics Rittenburg mentions about how older generations had experienced a much horrible time than what it is in the present were his great-grandparents have gone through seeing and experiencing two world wars, killer flu, segregation, and a nuclear bomb.

3. How he uses these specifics to demonstarte his hopefulness was where his father comforted him during his lousy by saying that “tomorrow will be a better day”.

4. How Rittenburg uses the title to make his point was by being confident of what the future holds, and not to worry so much about it and to just comfort others by saying “tomorrow will be a better day”.

10/22/07

I just started reading this book called “Three Junes” where different characters have their own view of what is going on in each of their lives. There isn’t really a main character where there are several of them sharing their view during the year 1989. There was this part where a man name Paul who thinks is the right time for him to get married because he’s in his mid-20’s but the problem is that he doesn’t really know a woman who he considers a friend yet.