Game Day “Let’s go, let’s go!” impatiently yells the little girl named Lilly. Today is the first game of the volleyball season. She swears she is the high school’s team’s number one fan, although all of her friends could beg to differ. She doesn’t understand why her parents are moving in a turtle-like speed to get out the door and on their way to what seems to her be the most exciting event of all time! The little girl was acting like as if she were getting to hold a puppy for the first time. “Calm down. We will be there in time for the first serve,” her mother snaps. Her reply, drenched with annoyance, “don’t you know that the excitement begins even before the first serve, mom? Let’s go!” Every school parking space is full, and every street …show more content…
Bulldogs are ahead, leaving everyone either standing on their tiptoes or sitting on the edge of the bleachers! For Lilly it meant poking her head around the legs of her mom. It’s a rally; the opposing team kills it onto our side of the net, the score now being twenty-three to twenty-three. Everyone in the audience shouting at the players, trying to be encouraging but their obvious frustration is shown through their tones. “Come on now, you’re better than that Stacy! Let’s go now! No more!” yells again, the large now red-faced man near standing near Lilly. The opposing teams serve again. The ball comes flying out of the player’s hands at a speed that has ace potential, but instead nails the net and doesn’t make it over. Everyone jumps at least two feet into the air with joy causing the bleachers to shake with excitement. They all are thinking that now is our chance to win it …show more content…
She started the game in a good way so now it was time for her to end it the same way. Lilly yells out with a surprising booming voice to the player, “Stacy stay calm and ignore everything except your own thought to get this ball over and in! Focus now!” Over the echoing sounds of stomping, clapping and yelling, the player somehow heard Lilly and a new confidence was shown in her eyes as she squinted them in the direction of her target; the opposing team. The player wipes her sweaty palms onto her blue jersey, and spins the volleyball in her hands. The referee blows the loud whistle. Next, she winds her arm back and serves the ball over the net. The crowd freezes in their tracks, as they notice the ball is going towards the far left corner looking as if were out of bounds. The eyes of all the fans shoot towards the line judge’s flag waiting for what at the moment seemed to be the most important call anyone will ever have to make. Lilly darts around to the left side of her mom’s legs to get a closer view of the line. The judge’s flag snaps down, meaning the fast and furious serve of Stacy was in fact in bounds and therefore, a game winning ace! The crowd goes wild! The little girl leaps into the air and howls at the scoreboard with liveliness in her eyes. Lilly somehow leading the crowd, everyone storms the court as fast as they could possibly run, not really being aware to their surroundings. Lilly’s first steps on the
Joes High School’s total enrollment consisted of sixteen girls, and twenty boys. Ten of the boys that had enrolled there played basketball. All of the boys were over six feet tall. Lane Sullivan, the new coach of the basketball team, had never even touched a basketball before he started coaching. Sullivan had never coached anything at all before he started coaching the Joes basketball team. In order to gain knowledge about the sport, he got a book about it. He started coaching in 1927, but before the 1928 basketball season, Joes High School didn’t even have a gym. Instead, they’d practice outside on a dirt court, and two times a week they’d take a bus to the nearest gym, which was ten miles away. In order to play home games, the boys had to play in the local dance hall. The “court” was nowhere near regulation size, and the ceiling was so short that the boys couldn’t shoot an arched shot. The people who attended these basketball games had no place to sit and watch the game, the all stood around the edges of the court and on the small stage. Joes High School finally got their own gym around Christmas time because the people of Joes donated their time and material in order to make it happen.
In Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game Rainsford’s motivations changed from wanting to be a great hunter to trying to stay alive. As Whitney and Rainsford are headed to Rio to hunt they are talking about the great sport itself, hunting. Rainsford agrees with Whitney and says that hunting is, “The best sport in the world” (Connell 1). This shows he enjoys hunting by saying that it’s is the best and most enjoyable sport in the world. If you are passionate about something it can motivate you to try new things and in his case, hunting new animals. After Rainsford falls off the yacht and wanders to the island he then finds a home and knocks on the door. Ivan answers and General Zaroff soon approached Rainsford and saluted him. After allowing
Although pride can lead to beneficial outcomes, pride with the absence of empathy can lead to a devastating result. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell shows that having too much pride and no empathy can get someone in some terrible trouble. The theme is proven by Rainsfords pride and unempathetic-ness, how the general had too much pride, and how the general only saw himself as the hunter, not the hunted.
on day in early june gablin was sitting in the dugout of the san jose sunbirds stadium remembering last season. It was the eighteenth inning of the second game of the Western Division play-offs against the Santa Ana Lionettes and Gamblins idol. Carol Spanks was at the plate Spanks lined the ball to the left of third base a shot lit so hard that it pulled the glove off Gamblins hand and rolled onto the artificial turf Gamblin scrambled for the ball spun around and threw her idol out at first base. It was she thought the best play she ever made.
The setting is an important piece of any story. The setting can help paint a clear picture in order to establish what the characters are feeling as well as setting the tone of story. In the following stories, “The Destructors” and “The Most Dangerous Game,” Graham Greene and Richard Connell demonstrate the tone of the story by using Old Misery’s house and General Zaroff’s Chateau as the main focal point. While the two stories present differences in the tone of the setting, they both make a connection of the beauty that these two places possess. Greene uses Old Misery’s house to formulate the story that prepares the reader of how a post-war building and surroundings can have an effect on people’s behavior and feelings while Connell uses General Zaroff’s Chateau in a way to deceive the reader from what is really happening in the jungle of Ship Trap Island.
In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Zaroff is a hunter that lives on an island in the middle of nowhere. Zaroff demonstrates that he is rich, smart, and confident.
The objective is to win each rally by serving or returning the ball so the opponent is unable to keep the ball in play. A rally is over when a player (or team in doubles) is unable to hit the ball before it touches the floor twice, is unable to return the ball in such a manner that it touches the front wall before it touches the floor, or when a hinder is called.
Timeless themes of equality, truth and perseverance are presented in this heartwarming tale of one courageous softball player and the wiffle bat that she adored. It all begins one summer day shortly after Tegan's sixth birthday. The scene opens with the young girl enviously watching a group of children play wiffle ball in the park across the street from her grandmother's house. She furtively glances behind her at the kitchen entrance and listens to the sounds of lunch preparations while contemplating the distance to the door. With a determined look in her eye, she takes a shaky deep breath and dashes out to the park to join the game, all the while looking back and wondering what her grandma would say. She approaches the field and stands by the rusty fence behind the plate. One of the older girls – she looks about ten or twelve – spots Tegan and invites her to join in. The kids show her how to swing the bat and the pitcher starts to toss the ball in her direction; they let her keep swinging until she hits one. When she does, the light wiffle ball catches the wind, floats high in the air, swirls around a bit, and lands two inches from Tegan's feet. After staring at the ball in wonder, she looks up and a slow smile spreads across her face. The other kids laugh and Tegan joins in with glee. The boy at first base looks at his watch and yells, "Hey, it's lunch time," causing all the wiffle ball players to scatter and race home in search of food. The girl that invited Tegan to play tells her to come back tomorrow in the morning to play a game with them and Tegan agrees with an enthusiastic nod of the head. She turns to run back for lunch, and sees her grandmother waiting by the fence.
As Paige and I walked across the field towards our team I felt euphoric. Four long years of work, sweat, and dedication had led up to this night. It was the perfect end to my senior year of softball. The scoreboard just beyond the mass of sweaty, screaming softball players read 15-0. This was the final score of the district championship game, a game my team had never won before. The applause and cheers of the fans echoed in my ears for hours afterward
We were going to win the game. That was the end of it. I knew it. We were the winners of that game. I stood up and yelled in a voice that even frightened me. I didn’t scream about moving our feet, or calling the ball, I screamed about how big of winners we were. I was done with moping. For seven minutes of my life, I had forgotten that I could do anything I set my mind to, and I had given up. The worst seven minutes of my volleyball career were those seven minutes in the third game of the final match at Brighton Volleyball Tournament. I had put my determination down to wallow in my disappointment. Disappointment needs to build determination. I had decided a long time ago that there were certain things in life that I could do better than other people. Those were my gifts. I use my gifts to my full potential.
Next, the games start and every court is being used. Danny, Terrell, and Jay Swanson are all on the Rebels. The first game is against the Crushers. The Crushers star player is Omar Whytlaw. He was ranked the third best in the camp. During the game, Jay did not hustle back on defense, so Danny calls him out on it. Jay responds with a smart comment of his own, which causes Danny to fire a hard pass at him. Jay ends up getting hit in the face and knocked over. He charges at Danny and catches him with a fist. The referee cannot eject them because they’re on the same team. Coach Wilcox decides to sit Danny and Jay for the rest of the game. The Rebels are down by two with only a couple seconds left. Terrell has the ball and
Would you have been brave enough to play a “game” that was to most likely end in death? In the story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, a man by the name of Rainsford is clearly brave because of the fact that he played the most dangerous game. His bravery can be proved by his actions, appearance, and speech.
Have you ever wondered what being hunted in the jungle would feel like? For one man this nightmare becomes a dangerous reality. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, a man named Sanger Rainsford faces conflict while being stranded on what he thinks is a deserted island. While on the island he falls into the hands of the maniacal Russian General Zaroff. How many steps is one man willing to take in order to ensure his safety. How far is one man willing to go to fulfil his quest of hunting the most dangerous game. Although both characters are very similar, there are inherent differences that are brought forth during the struggle for survival.
Giddens, Sandra; Giddens, Owen. Volleyball Rules, Tips, Strategy, and Safety. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 2005. Print.
So Evan rolled the ball to Dakota Dakota picked up the ball sprinted down the court 4, 3, 2, 1, Dakota was running down the court and he chucked up the ball and it did the toilet ring with the ball and it barely missed. So then we went in the locker room so the coach could talk to us.