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From this script, I liked Jordan’s character the most because she seemed to be the most fleshed out. In most of her scenes, she offers those that she interacts with a clear and objective perspective in favor of taking a step back and seeing situations from different angles. Her character felt authentic, grounded, and completely relatable to the script’s message.
I also liked David’s father, Denny, and the different recalls of the day he was captured the writer incorporated throughout the script. Each new scene reveals more about his character and the person that he was without the details being filtered through someone else’s eyes. David saw his father as an unyielding stature of a man and not as a person who felt fear, pain, or doubt.
I also found it heartening that David
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This would have instantly created an emotional connection between the characters without the awkward and misguided infatuations and judgments from those around them when it was revealed Mary Ann was pregnant.
The writer states on page 28 that David did not believe Mary Ann when she told him she was seventeen, so why would he allow their relationship to become physical? Moreover, when David and Jordan pick up Mary Ann from the Pig Farm on page 22, she was half naked, so it is entirely plausible that it was there that she was sexually assaulted.
Likewise, I was surprised that Jordan did not think to ask the doctor at the hospital when she was brought in if they could check and see if Mary Ann had been assaulted. Why wouldn’t Mary Ann’s mother, Louise think to ask when she arrived at the hospital to get her daughter checked out? The point being, if David and Mary Ann’s relationship resembled that of siblings, her death would have had more of a substantial emotional
The greatest conflict in the book was Man vs. Man for David, because he had to face his childhood of when his sister June had died due to down syndrome. This internal conflict led to the guilt he experienced when dealing with the secret of giving his daughter Phoebe away and lying to Norah(his wife) that Phoebe had died at birth. Norah and the family later realised Phoebe was alive but in that time frame before that the family was falling apart.
“If you build it, he will come” (Kinsella 1). These words of an announcer jump start a struggle for Ray Kinsella to ease the tragic life of Shoeless Joe Jackson. Ray hears a voice of an announcer which leads him to build a baseball field that brings Shoeless Joe Jackson onto the field. However, this field puts his family on the verge of bankruptcy which is just one of the struggles Ray Kinsella is presented in his life. Shoeless Joe Jackson is no stranger to having no money, as he was only making a measly $1.25 as a kid struggling to support his family. He never attended school and was illiterate throughout his entire life. The struggle is completely the same with Ray Kinsella growing up, as he is forced into baseball, which ultimately makes him run away from home. Ray’s hate is Joes love. Joe loves baseball and makes it to the major leagues, but it doesn’t last. Joe’s career is cut short due to the fact he is accused of throwing the World Series, and banned from baseball forever. Rays’s father would have loved it if his son made it to the major leagues because he thought Ray had the potential and talent. However, his only dream was simple, he wanted to play a game of catch with his son, unfortunately, he passed away and he never got to see his son after he ran away. Shoeless Joe Jackson’s death wasn’t any better, as he died guilty of throwing the World Series which was the biggest sports tragedy to date. Tragedies are not uncommon phenomena, Ray Kinsella and Shoeless Joe Jackson have the unfortunate luck to go through a struggle fulfilled and uphill battle in what is suppose to be a wonderful thing, life.
1. In the book, the father tries to help the son in the beginning but then throughout the book he stops trying to help and listens to the mother. If I had been in this same situation, I would have helped get the child away from his mother because nobody should have to live like that. The father was tired of having to watch his son get abused so eventually he just left and didn’t do anything. David thought that his father would help him but he did not.
"Radically new or innovative; outside or beyond established procedure, principles" is the definition used to describe a revolutionary. Throughout the history of America, people like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., have all emerged as revolutionary figures for their outside-the-box approach to life and the way they all changed the landscape of this country. A revolutionary is someone who takes part in a revolution. In 1963, a revolutionary was born, although not many people knew it at the time. Michael Jordan: Basketball player. Entruphenuer. Mega-millionaire. Father of 5. These are some of the most common attributes associated with the great Michael Jordan, or simply 'MJ' as he's nicknamed by his fans. He's commonly known as the man on the Jordan shoe. 'It's gotta be the shoes'. On his website, it states "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." Raised in rural North Carolina, Michael Jordan evolved into one of the most recognizable people in the world, taking the path of hard work and overcoming failure with an assiduous attitude and an intrepid way of working through failure. Michael Jordan had ammounted to a lot over the course of his life, winning NBA championships, MVP awards - which are handed out to the most valuable player in the National Basketball Association -, and accumulating millions of dollars to become one of the richest athletes of all time. Although it may seem as if Jordan got everything he wanted, life wasn't so easy on his path to becoming a revolutionary and iconic figure.
David Hayden, the son of Wesley and Gail, was the most loyal character in the book. One day David noticed Uncle frank walking out of the house in the middle of the day. David was an intelligent young boy who knew that something was off. Later that day David heard the news that Marie Little Soldier had died and it was not of natural causes. Guilt comes with loyalty. When a person witnesses a scene that was unlawful they are put into the middle of a paradigm. In this case, David, who knew Uncle Frank killed Marie, felt he was the only witness. For a twelve year old boy, David knew himself very well. He was able to find that his loyalty was to Marie and the rest of the family. Although David knew where his loyalty was he was sure that not everyone did know. "I wasn't protecting her-I no longer had any illusions that I could play that role-but I stayed out of loyalty.”(149). In spite of the fact that David had already designated his Loyalty to his family, he felt his loyalty was tested during the investigation. Davids instincts told him that the right thing to do was superset his father, but with his mother encouraging him to abandon his father, David felt he should neglect his instincts. For example, when the four men were sent by his grandfather to retrieve Unc...
...passage but at the root of it all is David's humanity. Though David was anointed and a “man after God's own heart”, he made many mistakes. This passage shows that David was not perfectly in tune with God's voice at all times. David did something God clearly did not want him to do, and did not realize the consequences until after the sin had already been committed. However, even though David did sin, and his sin was punished, he had a heart of repentance when he realized what he had done and was willing to make things right at all costs. Theologically, the lesson that should be drawn from this is that it was not David's actions which made him great, but his heart to please God, and even greater, God's heart of mercy towards him. If it had not been for God's intervention, David would have been nothing more but another man.
Michael Jordan was around 14 years old when he went to The Bronx, he used to be from Queens. He was nervous about starting a new school and meeting new people but the first thing he wanted to see was the basketball team and see if he can earn a place there. He knew what he was good at but he wasn’t sure how good these kids from the Bronx where, he heard they were tough and very good but he always stayed optimistic and confident. He knew that high school was was suppose to be harder for his education, but in all honestly, he was more interested in the basketball team. Jordan was more interested in making the team for many reasons, he always thought that if he made the basketball team he would be able to make it farther in life.
Ace Ali is an intelligent 18 year old who lives in Baltimore Maryland. Ace decides to drop out of high school and work at a warehouse because of his belief that the education system is flawed. After the death of his brother Ace’s mother Maria Ali became overbearing, so he decides to live on his own. At night Ace is a vigilante with plans to seek justice for his brother. Ace has a father named David who is active in his life but throughout the episode he will come off as a friend because he looks young and acts immature. Eventually Ace finds a lead on who was involved in the death of his brother and realizes that his brother was a drug dealer working for his mother Maria who is an assistant of her brother Diego Hernandez who is drug lord
He uses the limited omniscient to give am intimacy in what Mary’s thinking and also the restriction of not knowing the other character’s actions until they are revealed at the end of the story but he balances this with providing context to her thoughts with the dramatic point of view. Usually, a person’s thoughts don’t need to provide ourselves with context for our own experiences, so Berry uses dramatic point of view to provide what would be missing from exclusively Mary’s thoughts. Berry uses the point of view illuminate Mary’s experience with belonging and the differences between the community of her birth and her new community. Her family had rejected her, “her parents told her. She no longer belonged to that family. To them it would be as if she had never lived” (67). That is enough to damage anyone’s sense of belonging and even though her new community welcomes, includes, teaches, and loves her like the family she lost, perhaps in her sickness a deeply buried insecurity of not belonging rears its head. Because her family didn’t accept her, Mary worries that her new community won’t accept her when she is at her worst, sick and insecure. But when she wakes she realizes that Elton had noticed, cared, and worried for her and in her sleep, her neighbor had come to her and cared for her. “It was a different world, a new world to her, that
“If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better” (Magic Johnson). The quote above couldn’t be any truer. Michael Jordan epitomized that. Jordan is an influential person of the 20th century because of his determination to play, success in the NBA, and the legacy he left.
Jeremiah is Rueben, swede, and Davy religious father. He gives off an appearance of a competent adult. He is the protector of his family. Early in Jeramiah’s life, he gave up the aspiration of becoming a doctor because he felt that God called him to become a janitor. Throughout the book, anyone can see that Jeremiah had faith in God that was fervent. Because he chose to follow God’s calling, his wife left him. Regardless of his loss, he remained a great father who loved his kids and looked out for their well-being. Performing miracles was a gift God gave him, which happened throughout this book in sequence of events, supernaturally. Jeremiah religious persona prevails when he marries the maternal figure to his children, Roxanne, then becomes ill with pneumonia, to later recover from it, and die in result of his son’s cured asthma.
The "G.O.A.T.", is coming used term in the sports world meaning, The Greatest of All Time. In the National Basketball Association, when you mention the term, the "G.O.A.T., everyone assumes of one name and one name only, Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan was an innovator of the basketball work and influenced many different people and players that inputted & mimicked Jordan’s style of play and implicated it into their own game. In today's generation, there are several players that many average day people would consider these players on the road to becoming a Jordan type of player, potential or maybe even greater; players that may be able on road to sharing a Michael Jordan type of legacy includes Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant and LeBron James.
One of the characters that I was strongly impacted by was Bill. This character truly resonated with me as I felt he
My long and strenuous journey to be like Michael Jordan became an obsession, plaguing me from the second grade to high school. Like many children, I grew up idolizing “His Airness.” Emulating his intensity and competitiveness, I devoted myself to basketball, sacrificing weekend after weekend to the court. Before I knew it, my teammates had dubbed me “Mr. Automatic.”
The character I most identify with would probably have to be Susanna. We're both quiet and reserved people, and she represents that a girl can be in a movie without needing to fall in love. She shatters the archetype we set for her as becoming Duncan’s boyfriend when she tells him that’s not what she’s looking for, and I love that. I love how she is her own person, and how she completely ignores the pretty girls and their attempts to convert her throughout the movie.