Ralph Fletcher's Moving Sentences

    Ralph Fletcher is an amazing author. His words and sentences in his book,When I Was a Kid, he writes about his childhood. some sentences made you feel sad and some made you feel happy, but there were some that just moved you, like you have never heard something so incredible.
   In his vignette,Marshfield,he writes "More than once I tried and left behind one of my sneakers, a lost sole sunk forever at the bottom of the swamp." (Fletcher, 2005,pg.5). At first I did not understand what he meant by "sole", but then I realized he was referring to his sneaker! What an interesting little twist with words! As soon as I understood what Fletcher was talking about, I thought about how he made the sentence so simple but different from others.
    in another vignette, First Pen, Fletcher wrote an unusual question. I was absolutely amused at how he made the question seem so simple yet original at the same time! He wrote, "What words were hidden----unborn,unwritten----in all that unused ink?".(Fletcher,2005,pg.44) Whoa!! That sentence was all about ink. Can you imagine writing about ink and coming up with a sentence like this one? There is a word for this, extraordinary. Ralph Fletcher is extraordinary. He is writing about his first pen, but he wrote it as if he were talking about a mysterious vista. Here, in my words, I think he is saying that there are soooo many words waiting to be written down on your paper, and when it is time, they will come to you.