Ahh, summer. A time of freedom, junk food, heat, and, among other things, a tad of nostalgia. Actually... that's probably just me. Oh well. My blog, my rules. Nostalgia it is!
Of course, being me, I can't just simply have nostalgia. No, I have 'Selective' Nostalgia. I have no problem forgetting about geometry class for the remainder of my life here on earth, but I'm going to miss English 9 Honors for a while. Thats just the way it goes, I guess.
Anyway, I've decided to further fuel my nostalgia by posting here on the blog some of my favorite things I wrote in English this year. So here I go! This first offering was my first ever assignment for english class, and it was due, I believe, on the second day of school. Over the summer we had to read a fiction book, and the assignment was to write a scenario in which a character from our book met a real person, and use the scenario to describe the character. My character was Marvin from A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. (Click if you don't know who he is, otherwise I'm afraid the following won't make much sense at all.) Lets say my teacher's name is Mrs. Ecir
“Excuse me, do you know what time it is?” Mrs. Ecir asked the man in front of her in the checkout line at the supermarket. The line was about twenty to thirty people long, and extended well into the cereal isle. The man turned around, but he turned out not to be a man at all. He had an abnormally large head, and was made entirely of polished steel. In other words, he was a robot. Mrs. Ecir starred in wonder.
“Oh my!” She exclaimed. “What on earth are you?”
“Oh here we go.” The robot sighed loudly. “My name is Marvin. I am a robot with a built in GPP feature. GPP stands for Genuine People Personalities. Ghastly, isn’t it?” Marvin sounded very bored.
“Oh, I’m very sorry.” Mrs. Ecir said sympathetically. “Well, do you happen to know what time- ” Marvin cut her off with another obnoxious sigh.
“Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and you ask me if I know what time it is. Honestly. Thank you the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation,” said Marvin, as he took a small step forward in the never-ending checkout line that stretched out before them. “Let’s build robots with Genuine People Personalities they said. So they tried it out with me. I’m a personality prototype. You can tell, can’t you?”
“Look, there’s no need to be so touchy. I just asked you a simple question.” Mrs. Ecir said defensively.
“Sorry, did I say something wrong?” Said Marvin sarcastically. “Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed. Life! Don’t talk to me about life.”
Mrs. Ecir decided to abandon her grocery cart and get out of that store lickety-split.
So what do you think? I was actually quite proud of it. My teacher liked it too. She actually read it in front of the class while standing right behind my chair, thus labeling me to my classmates as a person who
a) reads sci-fi books from the 1980s
b) probably writes better than you
c) blushes like you wouldn't believe
According to her "This girl is going places. Want to know why? Because she, unlike the rest of you, uses dialogue."
Did you get that? How I used dialogue to talk about how I'm apparently going places because I use dialogue? Because I used dialogue... and it was dialogue... never mind.
That was really good! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd I get it! ;)