Exploring The Natural: A Baseball Prodigy's Journey

aylyn Hunt

Mrs.Moran

ELA10 Hour 7

9 October 16

The Natural

My book is The Natural written by Bernard Malamud. It is a great fiction sport novel. I would give this book 5 stars. Some will say it’s the best novel ever written about baseball I would agree. I'm proud I chose this book because baseball is my favorite sport there's nothing like being on that field with your friends competing.

In the beginning of the book Roy takes a train to Chicago for his tryout for the Chicago Cubs baseball organization. When on the train he meets a beautiful women who he is attracted to the heffa within seconds later learning she is a psych who shoots him and then puts his career on hold for along time. After 16 years Hobbs eventually gets drafted by the New York Knights at the age of 35 later on he Falls into a slump because wife Memo Paris. The Climax moment of the novel was Hobbs throwing the final pitch to win the.....

Roy Hobbs is the main character in the novel he is a baseball prodigy who

He is on his way there on a train with cubs scout Sam simpson. Roy sees a famous baseball hitter the "Whammer" as the train stops Sam bets that Roy can strikeout Whammer and he does but also accidentally injures sam who later dies that day from the injury. When reaching Chicago Roy meets Harriet who invites him to her room, after Roy says he "Is the greatest in the game" she shoots him which causes him to disappear. Fifteen years later Pop, manager of the New York Knights invites Roy who is now thirty four, to play and he does but doesn't go to hypnotist sessions so he gets benched for three weeks. shortly after Roy enters a slump and can't get any hits. When he notices a woman in the stands who gave him confidence. Roy meets the woman Iris Lemon and his next at-bat was a homerun so the two went on a date and the Knights won many more games since Roy's