Ralph Fletcher

     In "Marshfield Dreams, When I Was A Kid" by Ralph Fletcher he writes about various topics that happened during his childhood. He tells a lot about his family members and about different events that happened when he was a kid. The reason for this might be because he came from a large family with many siblings.
    In Ralph Fletcher's vignette "First Pen he states "It was just a cheap BIC, the kind with the clear barrel, so you can see how much ink is left in the cartridge." ( Fletcher, 2005, page 43).   He picked a topic which isn't commonly used, and it is kind of ironic he chose to write about a pen when he's now an author.
      As he states in "Marshfield",  " Mom said to think of them as strangers- some are good, some are bad, and since you couldn't tell the difference leave them alone." ( Fletcher, 2005, page 4 ).  Ralph Fletcher used comparisons when he compared mushrooms with strangers. He also had an emotional ending to that vignette like he does in some of his other ones.
      As Ralph Fletcher has demonstrated in these passages, he uses different writing styles with each of his vignettes.