Impressions

Think about a person who you met who left an impression on you (much like Effie left an impression on Neil). Tell a story about this person on your blog. Try to use a combination of direct and indirect characterization. Please also use figurative language at least three times.

Before you post your story about this person, please underline any direct characterization, italicize any indirect characterization, and bold any figurative language that you included.

Jack

It was a slow, kind of boring day in the summer holidays and we were lounging around in the backyard, chucking around the footy half heartedly, chatting, and wondering what to do. Suddenly, we had an inspiration. We would build a little bonfire with some scraps of wood that we had gathered from the orange orchard. Sly as a fox, Jack snuck into the house and grabbed a firelighter and a packet of Tim-tams to munch on as we cultivated our creation. The grin on his face showed his mission successful, and soon we were down to business. An hour later, lounging on some beach chairs beside the dying coals, Jack, ever the pyromaniac, handed me a charred stump of wood that fit snugly inside my hand. We both mashed the charcoal into our hands until the back pigment stained our palms. As a fitting climax to his sense of humour; Jack reached across and drew two thick, black lines on my face under my eyes. It was chaos from then on. By the time we were finished, we were as black as a midnight sky and hardly able to stay on our feet from laughing so much. Needless to say, we were banished from the house for the rest of the day. =]]