Character
In my book there are two main characters. The first is Stevie. He is 14 years old and a writer for The Washington post. When He was 12 he won a writing contest with Susan Carol Anderson (the other main character in my book) to go to the final four and write sports articles. From then they were sent to other major sporting events. This one being the world series. Stevie is very outgoing but he is is jealous of his girl friend susan carol. “well,” stevie said “I may be good enough, but not as good as you.” This is saying that Stevie is good at some sports writing and smart. But Susan Carol is amazing at sports writing and she is very smart. Susan Carol is a very sweet girl. She is a southern belle from north carolina. She can charm anyone with her smile and accent. She is very well spoken and she has a way to always sound like she knows what she is talking about.
Ideas
John Feinstein writes a lot of books like this one. They all begin with susan Carol and stevie going to a big sporting event. Then they find something interesting. In this case Stevie discovered a man in his late 30s who had two 14 year old kids who just made it to pro level baseball. Stevie got an interview with the man and his two kids. Stevie accidentally asked a question about Norbert Doyles (the pro) wife. She supposedly died in a car accident caused by a drink driver. Later in the book, Susan Carol and Stevie find themselves asking an important question. who was the drink driver? Susan carol and stevie have to go on a hunt to find out. Once they find Doyle he spills. He says that he was an alcoholic and he and his wife were drinking out at a resturaunt. He drove home and got pulled over by a friend. The friend said he wouldn’t send Doyle to...
... middle of paper ...
...int of view
This story is in Third person limited view. This is because the author says more about Stevie than anyone else. Also, I know what stevie is thinking. The author is know doesn’t what everyone is thinking. I almost always know how Steevie feels, what he’s thinking and why he said something. But I only know this for steevie. Considering the author doesn't know what everyone is thinking.
Order
This story is in chronological order. This author may have picked this because It is a way to get his point across easily. If something is in chronological order it means it goes from the event that happened first- the event that happened last. The author could have also done this because the last event can’t be separated from the other events. By this I mean it is woven into the other events and it wouldn’t make sense without the other events.
Hutch, the main character of The Big Field, has played baseball all of his life. He has always played shortstop, the same position that his father dreamed of playing as a professional. “Hutch, had always thought of himself as the captain of any infield he’d ever been a part of” (Lupica 1). Hutch finds himself being demoted to second base because there is another player, Darryl, on his new team that is expected to go pro and also plays shortstop. Hutch struggles because he does not want to play second base and his father does not support him because he does not want baseball to break Hutch’s dreams like it did his own. Hutch is betrayed by his father and Darryl when he finds them practicing together. Hutch has to learn to adjust and eventually becomes friends with Darryl, the up and coming shortstop. He understands that if he wants to win, then he needs to work together with Darryl. His father also comes around and finally gives Hutch his approval. Students should read this book in a high school English classroom because it demonstrates how relationships can be difficult, but teamwork can help to solve many issues.
Baseball was popular the most sport in 1919; players were seen as heroes and celebrities. At this time the players were payed very low wages and the owners of the team made huge profit. Because of this many players were into scams that involved them losing games on purpose. During that time of baseball, players didn’t make as much as they do today.Players would be offered large amount of money that would multiply to several times their salary.
High school sports can have a tremendous effect on not only those who participate but the members of the community in which they participate. These effects can be positive, but they can also be negative. In the book Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger shows that they are often negative in communities where high school sports “keep the town alive” due to the social pressure. In this way, Friday Night Lights gives insight into the effects of high school football being the backbone of a community, revealing that the fate of the individual football players are inadvertently determined by the actions of the townspeople.
The 1919 World Series resulted in the most famous scandal in baseball history. Eight players from the Chicago White Sox (later nicknamed the Black Sox) were accused of throwing the series against the Cincinnati Reds. Details of the scandal and the extent to which each man was involved have always been unclear. It was, however, front-page news across the country and, despite being acquitted of criminal charges, the players were banned from professional baseball for life. The eight men included the great “shoeless Joe Jackson,” pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude "Lefty" Williams; infielders Buck Weaver, Arnold "Chick" Gandil, Fred McMullin, and Charles "Swede" Risberg; and outfielder Oscar "Happy" Felsch.
The narrator does not move chronologically, contrarily, but uses small flashbacks to tell his point, leading up to the actual visit of the blind man where he then tells the story in a present tense. This lets the author seem like he is actually telling the story in person, reflecting on past occurrences of his life when necessary. His tone however, is a cynical, crude, humorous tone that carries throughout the story. The word choice and sentences are constructed with simple, lifelike words, which makes the reader sense the author is really telling the story to them.
Professional baseball started in 1869 and developed into the game we know today as America?s past time. Baseball was a part of the American identity.
The narrator in the story “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield, is telling us this story in the third person singular perspective. Our narrator is a non-participant and we learn no details about this person, from a physical sense. Nothing to tell us whether it is a friend of Miss Brill, a relative, or just someone watching. Katherine Mansfield’s Miss Brill comes alive from the descriptions we get from this anonymous person. The narrator uses limited omniscience while telling us about this beautiful Sunday afternoon. By this I mean the narrator has a great insight into Miss Brill’s perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and into her world as a whole, but no real insight into any of the other characters in this story. By using this point of view, we see the world through the eyes of Miss Brill, and feel her emotions, even though this third party is telling us the story. This beautiful fall afternoon in France unfolds before our eyes because of the pain-staking details given to us by the narrator. We aren’t told many things straight out, but the details are such that we can feel the chill coming into the air and see the leaves of fall drifting to the earth. The figurative language that is used is superb from beginning to end. The imagination and detail made me see what was happening and hear the band play. The characters in the park are observed through the eyes of Miss Brill, and we learn bits of information of those who catch her eye. The detail of the observations that Miss Brill ma...
Before the World Series games between the Chicago White Sox’s and Cincinnati Reds began, America had just witnessed the end of the first World War. A war that not only took men of draft age from their everyday jobs (that did not aid to support the war) but baseball players as well were forced to either join the military or find employment that aided the war. In addition, baseball players, during this time, had once again fallen into the disadvantages of the reverse clause which cut even the best players pay tremendously.
The story is told from the third-person limited point of view, which means that the reader sees the story through the eyes and perspective of a “viewpoint character”. In such cases, this character acts as a filter, and while we can see the internal thoughts and motivations of the viewpoint character, we can only see the behaviors of the other characters through his or her eyes.
Book Review of Eight Men Out The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof
Introduction Baseball Saved Us was written by Ken Mochizuki, a novelist, journalist and an actor. He is a native of Seattle, Washington located in the United States. After the war between the United States and Japan during World War II, is parents were forced to move to a Minidoka internment camp located in Idaho. He got his inspiration to write Baseball Saved Us when he read a magazine article about an Issei (a first generation Japanese American) man who established a baseball diamond and formed a league within the camps. Dom Lee, the Illustrator of the book, is a native of Seoul, South Korea.
the story is played out. Faulkner does not use chronological order in this short story. Instead, he uses an order that has many twists and turns. It appears to have no relevance while being read, but in turn, plays an important role in how the story is interpreted by the reader. Why does Faulkner present the plot of this story in this manner? How does it affect the reader? What does the convoluted plot presentation do to this story? How might the story be different if the plot was presented in chronological order? These are a few questions that have come to my attention while reading this story. I would like to give my opinion on this backed by evidence from the story itself.
Chris McCandless had a very comfortable life of an upper-middle class citizen, with a good education and many opportunities. On a summer trip to California, Chris learned a life shattering secret, that he had actually had several half siblings. Everything he believed about his nice happy family was a lie. After learning this secret, he began to pull away from his family, by not telling them where he was going and what he was doing. Then on his final journey, he disappeared, not telling anyone where he was going. When he was hitchhiking and picked up by James Gallien, he told Gallien that no one knew where he was, and that he hadn’t spoken to his family in years. “I’m absolutely positive, I won’t run into anything I can’t deal with on my own” quoted McCandless. From this, Chris was practically screaming that no one knew, and he liked it that way. He changed his name, so that no one could even connect him back to his family. His family actually had a private detective try to find him, but Chris made it extremely hard due to his wanderer habits.
By using the third person omniscient point of view, the narrator is able to render the characters with information related both from direct description and from the other character's revelations. This way, the description remains unbiased, but at the same time coherent with how the various characters see it. For example, after the narrator tells us that "He was an only child, eleven years old. She was a widow. She was determined to be neither possessive nor lacking in devotion.", we are able to understand why the boy is so emotionally attached to his mother and, at the beginning, unwilling to ask her for permission to go to his beach and, later in the story, unwilling to let her know about his adventure through the tunnel. This also explains why the mother let him go without questions, even if she was very worried about him.
The 1919 Black Sox scandal filled America’s sport with shame and embarrassment. For the first time baseball’s dark side was brought to light- their sparkling reputation dashed. Swirling in controversy, major league baseball declined to recognize what was happening around them, an event that marked change in not only baseball, but the culture of a nation. “What took place in 1919 growing post war cynicism, race riots, and accelerating industrialization signaled the death knell of the small town ideals.” Joe Jackson, Earl Weaver and the Black Sox were in the heart of it all.