Author's Note: This essay is about theme and the book i will be doing theme on is The Big Field by Mike Lupica and the theme for this book is determination because Hutch and Cole are determined to win the baseball championship and go home with the trophy.
The "Big Field" by Mike Lupica is about Hutch and Cole playing on a baseball team and they try to win all of their playoff games so they can win the championship. Hutch's dad works for a limousine business and he usually takes famous people to places and he is a caddy for really good golf players. Hutch's dad use to play baseball and he got injured and it ended his career. Another reason why determination is good because at one point Hutch wants to go play baseball at 9 am with Cole because he loves it so much and before that he had a big game that they won and he didn't want to just sit at home all day.I think determination is a good theme for this book because sports is all about determination and you have to be determined to win and I feel like Hutch and Cole are always confident in themselves to win the games that they play.
Hutch and Cole always have trouble communicating with each other because they both ran into each other in practice so they started talking more and they also put hard work in practice and got ready for their next playoff game. In the book teamwork is also good for this theme because Hutch and Cole use teamwork to win the playoffs games in real life this can compare to real sport teammates because they have to work together and put the hard work in. during the playoffs Hutch gets suspended for one game of the playoff series and when the next game came he sat on the bench and he was acting like a second coach and he was helping Cole out because Cole was playing Hutch's position. When Cole and the rest of the team goes out to the field Hutch yells over to Cole and says move over towards second base because he was playing shortstop and the batter comes up and he was a righty so Hutch told Cole to move over more and so he did and when the pitcher through the ball and the batter hit it right at Cole and Cole caught it for an out and after that Cole gave Hutch a thumbs up.
Another story that has Hard work and determination is The Greatest Muhammad Ali because he had to work hard and be determined to win his fights and he also had to put hard work in practice to get better. A quote from the that Muhammad Ali always said was float like a butterfly and sting like a bee and that means when he's fighting he wants to be light on his feet but also wants to throw hard punches. I feel like if Muhammad didn't have anyone to motivate him he wouldn't of got as far or if he didn't have anyone training him he wouldn't of got any better. I think this theme works good with these two books because you need hard work and determination for all sports because if you don't work hard you really wont get any where and if you have no motivation or good people surrounding you, you wont get any where.
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