In the book, The Game of Their Lives, the story’s plot revolves around overcoming the odds and doing the impossible. The book is an underdog story about how the United States Men’s National Soccer Team defeated the superpower, England, in the 1950 World Cup. It isf about how the little guy defeated the big guy. In the book, the United States Men’s National Soccer Team was a very poor team. The team roster was put together in a rush, and the players had little chemistry. The odds of them defeating the team expected to win the whole tournament, England, was near zero. Despite all the statistics, however, the United States National Men’s Soccer Team defied the odds and shocked the world and England. I myself have had an underdog experience in …show more content…
To my surprise we defeated the team. Winning the first game of the season sparked a burning passion in the team to win and become the best. Our desire and lust to be the underdogs was fueled by our atrocious previous season. Game after game, we defeated our opponents, and game after game we became stronger and stronger. We began to believe in ourselves and instead of dreading the games, we could think of nothing else. I realized that I was wrong about my initial thoughts about our new coach, and that I should not have judged him without giving him a chance. Soon, our confidence grew to the point where we wanted to win the championship. Off the field, we had our doubts. We convinced ourselves that we would not be able to qualify for the championship, based on our statistics from last season. On the field, however, our play style could not be defended against, and our skill was unmatched. Every game we gave it all we had because we had nothing to lose. We knew going into the games that it couldn’t be worse than the previous season. As a result, we began to play for fun, and by doing so we got into our rhythm. Soon enough, we qualified for the championship, and we were going to the semi-finals. Our opponents were no match for us, and we won the game. Next was the finals. It was all surreal at the time. We were the worst team, or thought to be at least. We had done horribly the previous season, and not a single one of us could have even dreamed of this happening, but it did. We went into the finals knowing that no matter what happens, we had a wonderful season and we all had fun. We knew that even if we lost, we would be happy because we had fun and it was a great run. Despite the odds, we won the finals. We were the champions. I remember the game ending and joy rushing through my body. We, the underdogs, had won the
The book Head games is a fictional story written by Mariah Fredericks. The novel is about a girl who plays a game online and sometimes in the real world. She creates characters that she plays as in her head. One day she runs into the troublemaker who lives in her building, they discover they both played the same online game with the same group of people. The girl and boy make up their own game to play, they often meet up and play as certain characters.
The Only Game, by Mike Lupica, is about a 6th grade boy named Jack that is very good at baseball. When the book starts out Jack and his old team mates are very excited that baseball season is just about to start up again. They all are out on the field explaining how it looks and smells so great. Then the day arrives that they had all been waiting for, tryouts. Jack explains how it is great to be back at it with his best friend Gus. After tryouts they found out who all made the team and it was basically the same team that they had last year. This year was supposed to be the year that they win the Little League World Series. They had all the offence and defense they needed to go all the way. Last year’s team made it to the World series
What seemed to be a very long and difficult game, the Worland High School Varsity Girls come through to winning the game against Powell. Still remaining number one in the 3A division in the state of Wyoming, Worland has put up a fight regarding their loss against Lander last year at state soccer in Jackson, Wyoming. Worland’s very first game of the season this year in 2014 was against Jackson. The defending state champions were demolished by the Warriors, and Jackson also did not score a single goal. Majority of the girls soccer players this year are very young, only three seniors are on the team this year. As observed on April 4, 2014, the Warriors went against a stronger team in their division, Powell. Not only does Powell have bigger, stronger, and faster girls, but they also started worrying the Warrior crowd after they had put two shots into the goal of the goal keeper. With the score 2-2 it became more and more intense in the crowd. Only about 10 minutes were left in the game, and like last year at state Worland did not want to go into overtime because if there was no goal after overtime match it would lead into penalty kicks. As horrifying as it is to have that kind of pressure within about 6 minutes left of the game a goal was finally made for the Warriors! The score was now 3-2, and Powell was not happy. As the head coach from Powell was jumping up and down saying that they have this game motivated his girls. However, Worland put up a fight and as close as it was Worland finishes off the game with a win. An evaluation of the game was indeed a struggle to write on; however, Anna Hepp will give me information from her perspective of the game along with the another senior, Yesie Herrera.
In the book Boys In the Boat, Daniel Brown tells the story of the U.S.’s rowing team’s Olympic journey to gold in 1936. The games were held in Berlin, right under Hitler’s eye. Though the games were held in Berlin that didn’t stop Joe Rantz, the book’s main character, and his team from going for gold. The boys had to show perseverance and teamwork to even be able to row. From country boys, to gold medal winners, rowing and hardships helped them embody the American spirit of hard work and teamwork. The boys had to overcome hardships, to work hard, and they never stopped being a team in order to win gold in Berlin.
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.
But rather than focusing on the game, he is more concentrated observing the fathers of the young players. While he sees excitement and pride on these men’s faces watching their sons playing, he also perceives frustration and helplessness. The narrator tries to presume that while they watch their sons playing, they are “Dreaming of heroes” they will never be. Through their sons, they live their fantasy of being sport celebrities. One can rationalize that since sport stars are considered idols, because of their economic and social success, these fathers imagine being in their position.
The story explains that this particular team was a group of underdogs who were able to use an exhausting strategy against teams that were far more talented than them. Using this story as a reference, Malcolm was able to explain that in this situation, being an underdog can give an edge because the team was able to “try things no one else even dreamt of.” (37) The strategy used by this team was then contrasted with the fact that if a talented team were to have tried the full-court press strategy, they would not have the motivation to successfully execute the strategy. Furthermore, Gladwell contrasted ideas was by using the Big Fish - Little Pond Theory, which he used to look into the advantages and disadvantages of students attending very good colleges versus mediocre colleges. After looking closely into this theory, Gladwell was able to find that the “best students from mediocre schools” (87) happened to almost always be a “better bet than students from the very best schools.” (87) Simply, what this means is that while it might seem to be a good
Richard Connells “The Most Dangerous Game” is a short story which illustrates that calm analytical thinking can increase your odds of survival and controlling panic.
Ender’s Game is about a boy named Ender. He is a third child, after the government put a population limiting law allowing only two kids per family unless allowed by the government like Ender. He has been watched sine he was born, and has been selected to be the general of the army for the next war against the buggers, an alien life form that attacked earth seventy years earlier, but he doesn’t know it yet. Then he must fly up to a space station to learn how to lead the army at battle school. After making friends that help him command the starships under his control, he destroys the buggers home planet, but later does he realize that the buggers new queen had declared peace. Now Ender has dedicated himself to telling the Buggers story.
In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, the setting is necessary for the plot to work. For example, there are rocks surrounding the island. The huge boulders keep people off of the island and trap General Zaroff’s prey on the island. Rainsford sees that, “jagged crags appeared to jut up into the opaqueness” (p.3). As Rainsford swims towards the rocks, after he fell overboard, he can see himself on the boulders before he can even get to them. He is anxious to get to land, not knowing what is in the near future. The boulders usually keep intruders out, but Rainsford is one persistent man. If someone sees the island with boulders surrounding it, they will not want to want to climb them to reach the island. Another
In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, one major theme that is expressed throughout is the theme that animals have instincts, while humans have reasoning. Rainsford and his close friend, Whitney, hunt animals for sport. At one point, they argue with each other about whether or not animals have emotions. Rainsford does not agree with Whitey and believes that animals don’t have fear or feelings and are meant to be hunted. Whitney says with confidence in her voice, “‘Even so, I rather think they understand one thing--fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death. Nonsense,” laughed Rainsford”’ (Connell 1). Although Whitney and Rainsford hunt animals for entertainment, they both have different opinions on how animals react
In the classes, Coach provided the class with a safe and warm environment to learn, providing every scholar with an equal opportunity to succeed higher and higher above all society’s critics about students in New Orleans. We proved and continue to prove what people said were impossible, by our rapid growth. On the court other coaches look for skills, but not my coach. She looked for growth, she confidently believes in the idea of a no perfect team, there were always room for growth. Despite how many losses, the scores weren’t what mattered. Instead, it was about the growth and fight of never giving up until the buzzer went off at the end of every game. I was a part of a team that came from 0 wins from freshman year to having my team finally able to enter the playoff with just one more win to reach. My view of life began to change and evolved over time since
Competition is a killer, in a way this story is killer, everything you'll learn in this book is killer. The story is about strategy, and mainly survival of the fittest. Richard Connell the author of “The Most Dangerous Game.” It's about a island called shipwreck island. Where a man named Rainsford a good skilled and trained hunter. Who was ready for anything. General Zaroff, a man who is quite hunter himself. But not in the way you would expect. Richard Connell uses mood/tone in his story “The Most Dangerous Game” to convey the theme of competition rarely enhances a person’s character.
I get to the field and I see a few unexpected faces. Marky, a very talented soccer player, and some new 6th graders. I’m always happy to have more people on the team, but for me that means more people I have to out perform. As we went through the day, I, unexpectedly, played pretty well. I didn’t overthink it, I didn’t force anything, I just used what I practiced. And a couple weeks later, before the first game, I was getting deja vu. “Huddle up guys!”, yelled our coach. We circled around as he read out the starting lineup, “In goal, we’re going to go with Justin. Jared, you will be our sweeper. Ari, I’m going to put you at stopper, I want you to take their best player out of the game.” My mind went berserk! Yes! I’ve finally done it! But what I really said was: “Yes, coach”. Unfortunately, we lost our first two games. In the second game, we lost in overtime, on a goal that I let in. I was crying, I was angry, how could I do this to my team? However, I only let that get me down for that day. After that, any mistake I made, I just worked extra hard so it wouldn’t happen again. We only lost two more games for the rest of the season, and I personally think it had much to do with how hard we
We had an hour break of rest before our next opponents and we were tired. I twisted my ankle and was winded from all of the running I did those past three games. But we came for the win. The last game we played that night wasn't actually a walk in the park. I suppose that the referee was tired from all of the previous games and decided not to catch obvious fouls and flaws in our game. Our opponents were ruthless, elbowing, shoving, punching at one point, and the referee never seemed to call anything. We started to plummet vastly as a team as the game weened on. We were missing easy shots, walking on the court, giving up what we worked so hard to achieve. We defeated ourselves that game. The negligence we all had about our mission in the tournament was embarrassing. We had a team meeting about the last game and modified it for that next day of the tournament. I instantly felt that I let my team down by not trying my hardest even though I played endless games. The ordeal made me want to play even better for the games the next day. This loss taught me that no matter how hard things get never to give up because you might have lost the battle but ultimately the victory will come from the