My name Agnes is like the color light pink. It's plain and simple like my name. Also it's a name that may seem old-fashioned to some people. Agnes can seem like an old lady name; sometimes I even agree. But I also believe that my name fits me well.

    My name means pure and holy in Greek. But I don't think that that definition fits me. It was also my great-grandmother's name. I've never met her because she died before I was born. But I am told that i have the same color eyes as her. Even though we have the same name i wasn't really named after her. My mom had a cup that she drank milk out of as a child that had been my great-grandmother's, and it said Agnes on it. My mom always liked the name and thought it was pretty. My dad liked the name because it was the name of his favorite clothing store Agnés B. He always thought that the name was cool. My parents also wanted a name that was unique and not common.

   I do know that my full name is a mouthful, Agnes Belle von Ziegesar Griggs. But i don't understand why people mispronounce Agnes. It's not that hard to say and it's spelled exactly the same way it sounds. But I guess it's mispronounced because it's a name that you don't hear or see a lot.

   My middle name Belle means beautiful in French. I really like my middle name because I think it really fits in with my full name. My parents chose my middle name because they wanted something with one syllable. because if I had a long middle name my full name would be too long. They chose Belle because a friend suggested it and they liked it. My mom also liked the name Pearl but my dad didn't like it.

   I feel like my name is like the number 5. Both my first and middle names have five letters and 5 is kind of lucky number to me. Also 5 is a prime and an odd number. Both those qualities make 5 different from other numbers, and my name is different from other name because it is so unpopular.

   My name is who I am and makes me the person that I am today. My name is something that has been with me my whole life and i couldn't imagine having any other name for myself.

Reading Response

                 This summer I read Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. I found this book to be both an interesting story and that the characters in the book made me not want to put this book down. I also watched the Twilight movie this summer. I found that the book was better than the movie. The book went into better detail than the movie. Also the movie created scenes that were not in the book.

                     The first example of why the movie is better than the book is the book went into better detail than the movie. One example of a scene the book went into greater detail about is when Bella is in the hospital after James has bitten her. Edward tells her she should stay in florida. But Bella wants to go back to Forks. In the book it says "Don't leave me...Do you swear you won't leave me?" (pg. 471). In the movie Bella doesn't say very much about it, she just reacts. Furthermore in the movie it's a quick 3 minute long scene, that doesn't have as much dialogue and action as the scene in the book. In that short period of time the movie didn't capture just as many events that happened in that particular scene than the book did.

                  A second example of why the movie is better than the book is that the movie added scenes that did not take place in the books. For example during the scene where Bella meets Edward's family the movie has Bella meet his family while they are cooking for her. When Bella tells them politely that she has eaten already Rosalie breaks a plate because she is angry. But the the book it says "Waiting to greet us, standing just to the left of the door, on a raised portion of the floor by a spectacular grand piano, were Edward's parents." (pg. 322). That is the scene where Bella is introduced to everyone, the cooking scene doesn't even exist in the books.The way it is in the book works better for the story because things happen before then add up to what happens. 

                  Overall I believe that the book is much better than the movie because the movie included scenes that didn't take place in the book and didn't always work perfectly with the story line, and in some scenes the movie didn't go into very much detail about events that were very detailed in the book. So all in all, both representations of the story are good, but the book is better storyline.