Best Friends

I have quite a few friends, of those friends I have exactly two BEST friends. NICOLE DANDRIDGE is one of two, we met in the seventh grade in Ms. Clears class. Nicole is short, she has originally dirty blond/light brown hair. She might be one of the shortest people in my group of friends, but she's deffinatley one of the loudest, funnest people I know. When she gets nervous her face lights up, literally, she turns bright red, thats something that we have in common. When you see her in the hall you'll notice she wears her vans and her hoodies, skinny jeans and a band T. She has a loud laugh that no one else posseses. NIKKI HERBISON is my other best friend, Nikki and I met also in seventh grade in Ms. Clears class. Nikki is one of the sweetest people I know, she may be quiet but she makes friends easily with everyone that she comes across. Nikki has a fun outlook on life, she is a semi-hippy girl, she and nicole are vegitarians, and Nikki is a GO GREEN type of girl. She tells me on a regular basis to save the trees and not litter. Nikki has the most amazing naturaly curly hair that I have ever seen in my entire life, she has perfect brown ringlets that are beautiful.
Nicole is a very oppinionated self spoken young individual, that is more than happy to tell you how she feels and not afraid to speak her mind. Nikki is more reluctant to speak her mind but she will when given the opportunity. Nicole is anti beef, "It tastes like murder" is what she said when she accidently had a little nibble of pepperoni on a piece of pizza at vics. Nikki and Nicole are the lives of the party, we all "feed" off eachothers energy, when we all get together its like one big sugar high most of the time, but in the end what goes up must come down... we crash. Nikki is very clever, she comes up with the funnest, and funniest things right off the top off her head. Nikki and Nicole are great friends, and I know that we will be friends for a VERY very long time

Looking back

When I was four years old my mother and my father took me and my new baby sister to a family friends house. Sitting in the car was boring, it took to long to get there, all I wanted was to be out of the car and to see the two adults that I considered my own friends instead of my parents. Pulling onto the curb you could see the little cottage looking house with small windows down a little hill. I jumped out of the car to rush my parents, they told me i could go on without them, but I had to wait I was to nervous to go on my own. Once they were finally ready to go inside I ran down the little steps leading down the hill to the little house holding my dad's hand and dragging him along.
We finally made it inside the house, and we said our hello's and i sat down listening to them visit, bored out of my mind. When my mom asked if i wanted to go outside with her for a moment i launched into action and took my opportunity. My mother and i walked to the back of the house where there was a sliding glass door, the door lit up the dark house, through it you could see the brightness of the outside. We went outside as the sun was setting, and looked out beyond the grass and the large weeping willow that was drooping over a picnic table. Past these was the sun setting over the lake, the sun was low and the clouds a pink and orange color that made my eyes wide get wide. Seeing the reflection of the sun on the calm rippling lake water looked like a mirror image of the sun just above the water. We watched the sun set and then went inside to visit again, and for me to be yet again bored out of my mind.

The bean trees: imagery

I believe that the author used the element of imagery so heavily to enhance the books potential, and really create the scene. By doing thins like describing people and they way that they look, and describing scenes the author really sets the mood, and gives a great mental picture in the mind of the reader. I think that that's the main reason that the author chose imagery for the main literary element, just so that the mental picture could be made in clear view for the reader.
I think that the author might also have used this element, because she wanted the story to be full of life, and seem realistic. I think that her way of doing this was by creating the scene and describing how she saw fit in the best way that she could, so that the book would be more exciting and/or intriguing.