"A Long Wait For Another Williams"
Sara J. Kuhl, who writes for the Wisconsin State Journal, wrote "A Long Wait for Another Williams" which is of course a review for the book Waiting for Teddy Williams. In her review she focuses on explaining the title of the novel. Teddy Williams being E.A.'s father who only shows up for the summer and E.A. has to wait for him to show up. Kuhl then run through the list of characters, no matter how significant or insignificant they are. She does this in a very rushed unorganized fashion and even makes reference to Gypsy's car, the Late Great Pasty Cline. With all that aside, Kuhl comes to the conclusion that despite the constant baseball references Howard Frank Mosher writes a great coming of age novel.
Rev. of Waiting for Teddy Williams
In Publishers Weekly, Dan Mandel is confident that if you are a Yankees or just a New York baseball fan, you will not like this book one bit. For a lot of people that is going to be true, there is just so much Red Sox Nation in the novel that it would ruin the book for anyone who really disliked the Sox. Another thing would be, if you didn't like baseball or just didn't know baseball this book would be hard to enjoy. The book is just too centered around baseball and wouldn't make sense if you didn't understand the sport.
"'Waiting Makes Pitch for Living Your Dreams"
"Waiting for Teddy Williams offers a thoughtful narrative about dreaming your life and living your dreams." Amy Stoll of the Rocky Mountain News, writes this in her special article "'Waiting' Makes Pitch for Living Your Dreams." Stoll finds that Mosher's novel is very entertaining but flawed. She goes through the list of characters in her review, not really explaining why she liked the novel until the very end. Stoll only briefly touches upon the fact that the characters feel "flat and incomplete."
"Teddy Hits a Foul"
"Mosher's novel tends to rely on the details of the town and its motley crew to carry the story, rather than focusing on E.A's inner turmoil and emotion as he faces pivotal and life-altering situations. As a result, the novel goes intermittently off course
" Amy Stoll more or less sums it up in those few sentences.
But it's a book about people who are baseball players. The story evolves through their lives and the events of a baseball season. So it's an atmosphere that baseball lovers can relate to.
In relation to the theme of isolation in this novel, Anderson uses this chapter to illustrate how the characters in the town of Winesburg should be perceived. Characters that are “grotesque” because they live their lives by a single “truth” that prevents them from maturing, developing, and ultimately growing into what Anderson...
The first chapter of the novel serves as a perfect example of how a name – and in some cases the name refers to a location rather than a character – is able to present a story in a subtle but distinct manner. The novel starts with Mr. Smith, the depressed insurance agent who is getting ready to jump from the top of Mercy Hospital. Smiths name speaks to the role of his character. He is given such a common name that he is almost disseminated into insignificance, there seems to be nothing great about his character. He lives a mundane life. This man is on the edge of a building about to ...
The production focuses on a set of teenagers who are friends with Allison, who surreptitiously convinces her friends to share their secrets, thus developing her loyalty to them. Once Allison disappeared, she left a mystery of who was responsible for her disappearance, dragging her friends into her dark secrets. Her body is later found, and the girls, who drifted apart after Allison went missing, start to reconnect, but their troubles are only beginning. After the funeral, all four of the girls receive messages from a stoker who calls himself or herself 'A'. ‘A' exposes many of the girl's dark secrets that only Allison knew of, leading the girls to wonder if Allison might be alive after all. ‘A' causes trouble for the girls and intervenes in their life, threatening not only their lives, but also the lives of those around them. On the road to discovering who ‘A' is, the girls come across numerous clues that incriminate people that they trust and love. Many citizens of the town seem involved in the mystery of their friend's death, making the entire town seem like a place of danger and discomfort.
Roy Hobbs is the main character in the novel he is a baseball prodigy who
He does not like the same “heavy” music that his friends like and he is not the kind of outstanding athlete Owl wanted, though secretly Mitch wishes he was. Julia Rabia, the young, new history teacher who just moved from Wisconsin and finds the idea of a small town to be boring and scary. Julia’s experiences in the drunken night life and the meeting of an interesting man prove to her that Owl might not be entirely boring after all. Lastly, we have Horace Jones, a seventy year old widower who enjoys every day pleasantries with his pals at Harley’s Café, a local coffee shop, where they talk about everything from politics to Gordon Kahl, but even his pals do not know Horace’s
Book Review of Eight Men Out The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof
There is something very secretive and bizarre about this town that leaves the reader with many questions about why it is the way it is, and how it got to be like this. Old man Warner relates to this, as he is the
... what the town saw as amenable. As he says, "Disapprobation hurt me, I found-- even that of people whom I did not admire." (174). Jim hides behind the shadow of his dream, never fearless enough to accomplish his own goals. As Antonia faces the world with a dauntless face, Jim shrinks back at its hand. And as she cherishes her own family, Jim settles for his. He may be accepted by society but he'll never reach his own expectations.
Edith Wharton’s writing style is characterized as simple and control. Her choice of vocabulary and sentence structure, which is complete as the lives led by her protagonists, is deceptive. Throughout the novel, Wharton builds up patterns of imagery, patterns of behavior and specially charged works. All of which serve a definite style and structure purpose. She chooses adjectives and adverbs carefully and uses them infrequently. Her attention to minor details and her use of structure to relay Ethan’s complicated and tragic life story to readers enables her to portray her characters as victims of the rules of society. Wharton shows silence by her personal experience when writing and did not readily discuss her writing. Wharton relied on personal
In the chapter of “Hometown,” he fails to factor in how our current society functions, see the changes from his generation to today’s, and present the opposing side many of the times. Also he does not present how settling in a community and making personal connections to the people around you is not as realistic as it may seem.
Faulkner has created a masterful piece of story telling in taking the reader through a suspenseful and captivating story. The effective use of foreshadowing does not diminish the climax of the story but rather enhance it by not giving out the details, but leaving it to the imagination of the reader. Through the organization of the structure of the storyline mixing with clever clues, Faulkner transforms Emily through the many tragic stages of her life and the ever-accompanying presence of death.
In the first chapter, Norris paints a picture of a town setting. He describes Polk Street as
Time passed and with it came disappointment. The city began to put up old school buildings to provide a “sense of home” or at least that is what we were told. Even though we were moving forward it seemed as though our quality of life had regressed. We went a year with no trace of Eli. Julia cried every hour of the day. Purpose, meaning, the point of life had been stolen along with Eli and I couldn't let it go.
...a story about growing up for the two protagonists Will and Marcus, but it is also allows the reader to examine certain aspects of their own life which correspond with the problems faced by the main characters. The two main characters are the primary factors in each others development which eventually leads to them being socially accepted by the people around them. The stories’ ending is justified in showing the transformation that has occurred through both of the characters. The sentence affirms Marcus’ change into a teenager as he says ‘I hate bloody Joni Mitchell’ and reinforces the sacrifice Will has made to be with Rachel. The changes that each character makes are phenomenal. This final statement by Hornby is meant to reinforce the change that has occurred in the characters and allow the reader to reflect on changes that may have occurred within their own lives.