My Reaction on Ralph Fletcher's Excerpts

 This week in Herbert Hoover Middle School,we were reading five excerpts from Ralph Fletcher's childhood stories. We heard some stories that were fun to hear and some that were emotional that were sad. For the
blog post that we are doing this week, my English teacher, Ms.Patalano, thought it was a good idea to do this as a post and see what we say about the excerpts that Ralph Fletcher wrote about. It was called Marshfield Dreams:When I Was a Kid.

 In Marshfield Dreams:When I Was a Kid, he describes more about his childhood things that happened at his time. In each excerpt he describes a lot about that character, thing, or place. He uses a way technique that makes a way that everyone can read without using words that most people don't even know what they mean. The way he writes, shows that he is using 1st person point of view.

 In one of his excerpts "Marshfield," he states, " The woods held magical things. We found snake skins, real Indian arrowheads, box turtles, beehives, snake spit on tall grass." (Fletcher, 2005, 4). In this excerpt and sentences, he describes what the forest behind his house has. He is explaining the things that he sees behind his house in the forest.

In one of his other excerpt "Bobby" he stated, "Bobby never got a chance to grow up. In his last year of high school he was killed in a car accident." This excerpt gave the reader an emotional feeling for the character that Ralph was mostly taking about in this vignette. Ralph made a way of making everyone give the character, Bobby, a sad feeling for when he died without having much experiences throughout his life.


Ralph Fletcher used a way of making everyone have a feeling in all the vignette/excerpt that he wrote based on his childhood stories and it had everything to do with him and surroundings.