Mirroring Ralph Fletcher

     In the book that we read little snippets about by Ralph Fletcher there were some outstanding sentences, dialogue,and a lot of other goodies. In the short story "First Pen" Ralph states "What words were hidden-unborn , unwritten-in all the unused ink." (Fletcher Pg. 43) He is describing how special it is to write with that ink and how he makes up special touching stories like "First Pen" That he got to write only because of that special pen he has. In the book "Marshfield" I was able to relate to the story very easily in the excerpt "Bobby." This is a sad one but its very touching. Ralph states "Bobby never got the chance to grow up. In his last year of high school he was killed in a car accident."(Ralph. Pg 59-60) This sentence was sad and touching. These little short chapters was very descriptive and some were sad and some had humor.