A Clean, Well Lighted Place Analysis

What is one event, character, or plot element that is similar to a modern text/film? Explain.

1.  In most movies there's always a sad part and the sad part of this movie is when the young waiter yells at the old man. There is also some one in a movie that is nice and that's the old waiter because the old waiter was just saying that he was lonely and just needs a calm place to relax.   

2. I think the book is different than the movie because the old man was suppose to be outside on a terrost

but in the movie they were inside the cafe. One thing i didn't know would happen is the music at the end and the beginning, in the beginning the music sounded creepy and mysterious and at the end it sound more sad because the old man got yelled at and he just left all sad and didn't really say anything else when he left. Another thing that was different was the soldier walked by in the book but didn't walk by in the movie and I think the directer took that out because the soldier wasn't really a big part of the story. In the beginning the two waiters didn't say that the old man was def but he actually was in both the story and the book but you could still tell that he was def because he talked really loud to the waiters.

3. I liked the Movie type better because it made more sense than the book because the movie took out all the parts that wasn't need and it's also easier to visualize stuff. Another thing I liked was how they changed some of the parts like the terrist and how he was suppose to be outside and the reason I liked that was because i like when things changed from the book to the movie. One of the dislikes I have is the young waiter because he was mean and impatient  but the old on was nice and felt bad for him. Another thing I didn't like was how the old man looked he looked kinda homeless because he didn't really have good glasses and all he pretty much had was a coat and a scarf. Overall I like a little bit of both things because they were both great and how they explained things in the book and the movie.

Great Author's

Author's Note: This essay is going to be about comparing authors Mike Lupica and Tim Green and how their writing is the same and different.

The two authors I'm going to compare is Mike Lupica and Tim Green the two books I'm going to compare by these authors is the Big Field by Tim Green and Football Hero by Mike Lupica the ways I will be comparing them is how the books are the same and how there different. The Big Field is about these two baseball teammates Hutch and Cole try to go to the championship and try to stay as a team as there going through the games hutch gets suspended one game by his coach because he fought with one of his teammates. When its time to play the game Hutch give Cole some advise for him because he's playing his position when Cole goes out on the field and Hutch tells to move towards second so he does and he makes a nice double play. Football Hero is about these brothers Ty and Thane and their parents get killed in a car crash and Ty has to move with his uncle and he also has to go to a different school so he has no friends at first so he gets bullied until he joins the football team and shows all the kids up on the football team.

These authors are the same because they both write a bunch of sports books and both have the same setting but different sports. There also the same because they both have problems and they both get fixed like in the Big field the problem is Hutch getting suspended and them losing one game and they fixed this problem by stopping Hutch getting in fights with his teammates and practicing more to get better. In Football Hero The problem is that Ty gets bullied and has no friends at first but then he signs up for the football team and shows off his speed. I think these problems in both books could be real life experiences because people really get bullied and get called names and people always get in fights with their teammates.

Mike Lupica and Tim Green are different too because Football Hero has a nerdy kid and he gets bullied and that doesn't happen in The Big Field. Then in the Big field there's two teammates that work together and win the baseball championship and it's also different because it tells the story about two people but in the Football Hero it's only telling a story about Ty. Another way these books could be different is that there different sports and have different settings at some times and The Big field doesn't have such a big problem as Football Hero. I think the biggest problem in Football Hero is when Ty's parents die and he has to move with his uncle and Aunt and he also has to go to a new school and the biggest problem in The Big Field is when Hutch gets suspended for a game because he was the teams best player and he also new baseball alot more than his teammates because his dad played baseball but got injured and ended his career. Then when Hutch started baseball Hutch's dad started teaching him how to play and the rules of the game. I think these books are great for people who like sports books and books with some problems in it and i think all of the similarities and differences are real world and can happen to anybody. I personally like these books because I like sports and mystery books and these books are a little like that because you never know whats going to happen next.  

Determination and Hard Work

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. 

The Retelling about The Big Field

Hutch and Cole play Little league baseball and they have trouble getting through the Florida when their house has no central air all they have is just a little fan in their room to keep them cool for the night. When Hutch and Cole's baseball team gets in the playoffs they find a way to always pull out the win but Hutch makes a mistake in game 2 will it cot them their game or will they still win find out and go read The Big Field. 

Figurative Language

Author's Note:Today I will be analyzing The Train by Emily Dickinson and I will be talking about the figurative language on the poem and how tone and mood are used and what impact it has on the reader.

"Train", by Emily Dickinson, is about trains and how they ride on the railroad tracks and Emily just uses some figurative language to explain like when she says " I like to see it lap the miles, and lick the valley's up that type of figurative language is personification because it has human and animal traits. The reason Emily used figurative language is to make the tone and mood more exiting.    

In the poem train Emily compared a train and a horse because there both fast and big and she compares them by saying it stops to feed at the tanks that's just like saying when horses feed itself at a stable or when a train stops for fuel at the tanks. She also talks about  the train racing around the mountains just how a horse would if traveling through mountains Emily also tries to not really compare the two and she tries to keep it hidden and suspicious so you wonder what shes talking about.

Most people think poems are boring and just rhyme all the time and they don't this poem Train by Emily Dickinson doesn't really rhyme like some other poems it just uses alot of figurative language. In the first two lines of the poem is I like to see it lap the miles and lick the valley's up that kind of figurative language makes the poem great because nobody likes poems that just have regular words in them like run the valley's up because that would'nt sound as good as it is now. I feel like the author is telling us how she feels about trains and how they move down the railroad track the other type of tone is happy because the poem doesn't show any sadness or anger and she shows how she likes trains and also how she's trying to compare a horse and a train.

If there was no figurative language in this poem people would think this would be not as exciting and it would seem more boring because figurative language just makes it sound better instead of just describing the train with regular boring words.The figurative language "Around the pile of mountains" in the poem has effect on this piece because if Emily just said " around a bunch of mountains" it would be as powerful as it is.

I think this poem is great because it has alot of figurative language and I like how she's comparing a horse and a train and the figurative language affects the tone of the poem because instead of using boring words she used "crawl" and "supercilious". If I were to rate this poem i would give it a 8 out of 10 because she uses alot of figurative language.  

The Predicting of The Big Field

Author's Note:In this piece we needed to predict whats going to happen in the novel and compare it to other novels and see how are they the same or how they different.

I will be predicting the end of The Big Field by Mick Lupica and I will be comparing it to Football Hero and how that ended and I will be seeing the differences between them and the similarities. In the story The Big Field the main characters are Hutch and Cody and they play in a junior league and they travel around the state for the playoffs and the championship.Hutch and Cody would always watch Yankee games and Hutch's hero of baseball is Derek Jeter and he plays for the Yankees. Hutch's dad use to play baseball and he was going into the MLB but he hurt his shoulder and it ended his season.

In the story Football Hero the main characters are Ty and Thane which is Ty's brother in Football Hero Ty is this nerdy kid who cleans toilets for his uncles job and he also had to moved schools because his mom and dad died in a car crash and he had to move with his uncle so in his new school he gets bullied and really has no friends. Ty and his brother both like football and Ty's brother play in college and he eventually gets into the NFL. I think The Big field is going to end by Hutch and Cody's team will win the championship because they are winning their playoffs games and Football Hero had a good ending because Thane got a good contract deal with New York Jets a pro NFL team and Ty also got to live with Thane like he always wanted to.

I thought this was a good prediction because all the sport Mike Lupica books end with a good ending and also The Big Field could end like that because Cody and Hutch are just like Ty and Thane even though the books were written by different Authors. There are also some clues that this story could end this way and some of the clues are when Hutch and Cody win the second game to get even closer to winning the championship.

The things that are different in these two stories is that ones baseball and ones football the characters are different because Ty was a nerdy kid and Hutch and Cody were just really good friends and were both really good at baseball the themes were also different The Big Field was in the summer in Florida and Football Hero was in the country in Virginia. In The Big Field Hutch and Cody actually had moms and dads and Ty didn't he just had his uncle and his aunt. As I would see it from my point of view that these stories are alot the same but a little different at times I recommend this book to people who like sports because they both show that they you need hard work in sports and always practice to get better

The Big Fight

In The Big Field Hutch and his friends play baseball and there in a special little league that they go and play big  baseball championships and Cody is one of Hutches friends that play with him. They have a kid named Darryl on their team and he thinks he’s the best one on the team and the funniest but no one thinks he is and he always tries to fight with other people.  The story is written in Mike Lupica’s point of view from this perspective, a lot of events and characters are described in a way that creates physical emotion and emotional the reader about Hutch and Darryl when they fight at practice and Hutch gets suspended from one game by coach Cullen. One way that Mike Lupica point of view influences the reader's interpretation is how this perspective shows how Hutch and Darryl get in a fight and how Hutch becomes the team captain as he makes the play of the game for his team to win. Mike also influences me is what Darryl thinks of Hutch or if the team likes Darryl because Darryl doesn’t really like Hutch who is the team captain. I think Hutch is nice and he has good sportsmanship and he helps people in practice. I think of Darryl as a mean kid because he fights with Hutch and the coach like when Hutch got suspended Darryl was talking bad about how he plays baseball However, the reader would feel a lot differently about Darryl if the novel was written in the point of view of Hutch’s dad. For instance the reader wouldn't think that Darryl is mean because Hutch’s dad never goes to his practices so he doesn’t know how Darryl acts. As you can see, the point of view of a story forces the reader to see just one side of an event or topic. In The Big Field the narrator's perspective makes the reader feel good about Hutch and Cody but bad about Darryl.