Death-how seeing the death of my dog has made an impact on my life.

Sports-how losing pushes me to go further, and winning shows how we worked as a team.

The Thrill of the Grass

Symbol- Baseball is a symbol of America because it is the sport people identify about America. Grass represents freedom because the players remember playing on grass as children, and when you’re a child you are free, and when they bring back the grass on the field it brings freedom.

Protagonist- locksmith that breaks into the baseball field

Antagonist- society

Conflict- person v. society because if society didn’t replace the grass with Astroturf there wouldn’t be any problem because everybody liked the grass and they would have left it alone.

Point of view- 1st person

Inciting Event- When the locksmith first sneaks into the baseball field

Climax- When they lay down the first piece of sod.

Brief Summary- It’s about a failed shortstop that loves baseball. He breaks into his home baseball field and finds out that it is made out of Astroturf. He goes and talks to a guy that he sees at every home baseball game, who sits about eight rows in front of him, to help him replace the Astroturf with real grass. They gather more and more people so it would be done faster. They finally finish replacing the Astroturf with grass. This is an important story because it shows that not all up-graded things are more efficient and more liked by people.

Theme- It’s connected through home because when people grow up they play baseball on grass fields, and then they go play on Astroturf and it’s not the same. It’s connected to technology because Astroturf doesn’t need to be mowed, which cuts down the cost. It’s connected through freedom because all the pro baseball players grew up playing on grass, and they didn’t get to have a decision in switching the grass for Astroturf, when they would have chosen to keep the grass.

The young boy’s insolence towards his parents was not tolerated.
The boy’s churlish comment upset the teachers.
Titan was an irate dog that loved to fight.
The efficacy of basketball practice made the team win regionals.
The boy cajoled the dog to come to him with a treat.
The girls basketball team pummeled the Kake team after they lost the runner-up game at regional’s.
The perspicacity of the student amazed the teacher.
The girls chagrin look had me wondering what happened.
The assiduous dog learned its tricks very quickly.
The boy had a malicious look in his eye.

Is Merylin to blame?
Yes, I do think Merylin is to blame for the whole situation. Although she didn’t know what the law was, she could have just waited for her brother to return to earth to see him. So, if she didn’t go to space to see her brother they wouldn’t have to be in this big pickle of having to stick by the law and kill her, because the ships only get just enough fuel to get them there, and the extra weight just weighs the plane down more, which would have to use more fuel then they were given, which would kill her and six other men because the serum wouldn’t have gotten to them.

Harrison Bergeron

Freedom and equality have two totally different meanings. Freedom is where a person can do just about whatever they want when ever they want. They could sing while they’re walking down the street, be as smart as they possibly can, play sports to the best of their ability, and even wear what ever they want. Where as equality is where you make different things equal. So, we’d all have to walk down the street, either singing or not singing, be good or bad at sports, we’d have to have the same intellegents, and wear the same type of clothes. If we all had to be equal, it would make this planet a really dull and boring place to live. For example, there wouldn’t be any competition because we’d all have the same skill level in sports and even in businesses. This would not be a fun type of society to live in. There wouldn’t be any characterization, and all the people would be dull. You wouldn’t be able to be yourself and live a fun and exciting life, which is what most people hope for.