Shoeless Joe: How Religion Affects Life

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Religion changes how a person lives their life, religion affects lifestyles making either noticeable or discrete changes throughout your life. Different people life for different things, some life to serve one God, some to survive and be successful and others to find peace and serenity. As portrayed in Shoeless Joe, Ray’s entire life has been surrounded by baseball, from a small child to a father, Ray lives for baseball. It is his lifestyle. Every night either before or after dinner, Ray sits down with his wife Annie and their daughter Karin to watch baseball. Even as a small child, Ray has grown around baseball, his father always talked about it and his failed passions, and he eventually learned to love it. “Instead of nursery rhymes, I was

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