Character, Plot And Themes In Tim Howard's The Keeper

Solo was born on July 30, 1981 in Richland, Washington. Her childhood was far from simple; her father was in and out of her life, as well as in and out of prison, and had stolen money from her mother on multiple occasions. In Solo’s own words “he was unreliable at best and a criminal at worst” (p. 44). Despite his erratic behavior, Jeffrey Solo was an important person in Hope’s life, particularly in her soccer career, right up until his sudden death in 2007. While Solo is widely recognized as the face of women’s goalkeeping in the US, many people don’t know she was a forward for most of her life growing up, and a prolific a goal scorer on top of it. She began playing goalie for her Olympic Development Program (ODP) team an older team selected her as their backup keeper. Throughout her teenage

Keeper’n Me portrays numerous distinctive and related themes throughout the course of the novel, some more prominent than others. With the inclusion of interesting topics such as effects of residential schools,the importance of oral traditions, maintaining balance to find yourself, culture or language, and Elders, this work outlines exceptional ideas allowing readers to learn important factors all while keeping a light heart due to the incorporation of humour. Wagamese introduces ideas on Aboriginal history with residential schools and foster care through a tone in his writing which allowed readers to acknowledge how it caused families to break apart, children to become distant from their own culture and way of life, and furthermore how the idea of “beating the Indian out of the Indian” was such a major controversy. The author also regards the importance of teaching through oral traditions making it clear to the reader of the significance of passing on traditional understanding, and how it is one of the guiding aspects of the Ojibway culture.The Ojibway honour the traditional way of storytelling through means of oral tradition as it provides a more personal way to pass on words of wisdom and tradition.

Richard Wagamese, the award-winning author of the novel Keeper’n Me (2006) as well as various other literary pieces such as Dream Wheels (2006), Medicine Walk (2014), and Indian Horse (2012), was born in 1955 in Northwestern Ontario and is from the Wabaseemoong First Nation. Through the combination of Wagamese’s fictional writing blended with components of his personal life in Keeper’n Me specifically, the fifty-nine year old author has been recognized for this and other phenomenal works through a variety of diverse awards in his years of writing including being the recipient of the 2012 National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Media and Communications. His debut novel allows audiences to get a glimpse of what this writer is capable of and furthermore his personal life as he incorporates many fascinating concepts into it while keeping it a light read.

She didn’t see her dad again for ten more years, only by coincidence she spotted him walking around in Seattle. They reconnected and Jeffery attended everyone of her soccer games, she would often bring him macaroni and cheese for him to eat while he was living in a tent. Solo was an Italian-American descendent at an early age she enjoyed playing basketball, snowboarding, and beach volleyball but she got taught by her father to play soccer and her love for the game grew and grew. From 1996-1999 she competed as a forward for the Richland High School Bombers. Over her high school career she had score 109 goals. Despite her forward skill she always knew that the goalie position was for her. Solo began playing keeper at club level for Three Rivers Soccer Club. It was at this time she started getting recognized and people began to take notice in her. She became keeper for the United States U18 squad and helped the team capture gold in the

Alex Morgan was drawn immediately to soccer at a very young age. Alex was born on July 2, 1989 in San Dimas, California. She grew up with parents who supported her in different ways. Alex Morgan’s mother is Pamela S. Morgan, her father is Michael T. Morgan, and her two older sisters are Jeni and Jeri. As a young girl the family moved to Diamond Bar, California (thefamouspeople.com). Morgan’s parents had supported her throughout her entire career. Alex Morgan’s father was her coach as a youth. Although Morgan’s mother didn’t coach her in soccer she found many ways to support her talented daughter. Alex’s mother and father are very different people. Alex’s mother would say, “Honey, if you lose, it’s ok,” but on the other hand Alex’s father would say, “You’ve got to be the best, no one remembers number two.” Alex Morgan said, “I feel really lucky to

As a young girl, I was introduced to soccer by my father. I think I was about eight at the time when I first played on a recreational team, and I remember that I had always wanted to play goalkeeper. In soccer, the goalkeeper is the last defensive player, but is also the first offensive player once the play turns. The idea of playing such an important position thrilled me, and it didn’t hurt that the goalkeeper gets the opportunity to use their hands as well as punt the ball across the field. From the age of nine until the age of eleven, I played competitive and recreational soccer as a goalkeeper, and stopped in the sixth grade. I picked the sport back up as a freshman in high school, after my younger sister had urged me to join the school

As I stood on the field, sweat dripping down my face, it all came down to this moment. Going to practice for months, the bruises, the pain, it was all preparing me for this altering moment. I’m a soccer goalie, that in itself is a big responsibility, but tonight my team was counting on me to lead them to victory. We just played a full 90-minute game only to be tied two to two. I stood in between the goal posts, people cheering my name, as a member from the opposing team walked closer. Since we tied we are in a penalty shootout, the outcome of the game is decided on this one kick. See, being a goalie is a big responsibility, but during a shootout, that's when it gets unbearably stressful. The odds are not in a goalie’s favor. There is only an eighteen percent chance that the goalie will stop the penalty kick, but I was beating those odds because I already blocked two out of four shots. I just needed to block one more, one more and we win the gold medal, we win first place. As the player walks closer to me, the cheering of the crowd slowly dissipates. All I hear is my heart pounding out of my chest. It all comes down to this final whistle signaling the kicker to begin. I felt unstoppable, this was my moment to shine, this was when I became the hero for my team. The referee blew

The initial thing to do in order to overcome any challenge is to identify the problem and its causes. When these are identified, a strategy can be put into place as to how to best solve the problem at hand. It is also important to follow up the situation after the initial problem has been resolved in order to make sure the problem will not recur.

Tim Howard had become a name that most soccer fans can recognize. Him and his team went to Washington DC to meet with the president. At that time Barack Obama was the president. Tim shook hands with some leaders of today. Obama gave a speech about how well Everton at the Gold Cup. Tim Howard is now a thirty-eight year old pro soccer player who plays with TS and has still overcome many situations in his life, but he couldn’t be the keeper he is today without those

Tim Thomas decided to drastically change his life by giving everything he has to seven people, in order to save or improve their life in order to “make up” for the seven lives that were lost as a result of his carelessness. He gave a part of his lungs to his brother, a piece of his liver to a social worker, a kidney to a hockey coach, his home to a mother of two children but

“Paul Fisher! Have you ever played anything but goal? Get in there for Tino. Play the center forward.” Even though Paul Fisher ,the new kid on the soccer team, has never played but goalie, he knew that he wasn’t going to give up that easily. Paul gave soccer the best he had and eventually was known for his mighty and braveness. While other player on or off the field had good or bad sportsmanship, Paul had one of the most memorable efforts to the team. In the novel ,Tangerine, characters demonstrate both good and bad sportsmanship on and off the playing field.

The movie “My sisters keeper” is about 13 year-old Anna, who sues her parents for medical emancipation when she is expected to donate a kidney to her sister Kate, who has leukemia. This essay will focus on three events in Anna’s life, and discuss how each event in the characters life had an affect on her physical, psychosocial and cognitive development. The events that will be discussed are: how being brought into the world to save Kate affected Anna’s psychosocial development, how having to undergo many surgeries at a very young age affected Anna’s physical development, and also how Anna’s cognitive development was affected by her sisters sickness and death.

Timothy’s story is about a sequence, or timeline of events showing how being in a certain environment can help shape a child’s development. Timothy’s behavior from the beginning was a perfect example of how children model after their parents or caregiver. He was exposed to violence at a very young age from his parents, and therefore that was how he learned how to express himself. With his parents out of work and in low paying jobs, the whole family was under a lot of stress. Timothy was spanked as a result of them not dealing with their stress in a

Tim Howard grew up in New Jersey sharing an apartment with his mother and his brother. It was small and in a poor dangerous area. Tim had to overcome many challenges when he was growing up. Being poor was the hardest challenge Tim had to deal with. Not only did Tim have to struggle with poverty, when Tim was in Elementary School he was diagnosed with OCD and Tourettes Syndrome. As Tim grew up his Tourettes prevented him from being himself and concentrating in school, but on the soccer field Tim felt relaxed and his OCD and tourette's didn't prevented Tim at all. By the time Tim was playing in the EPL he was trying to get people to notice tourettes and tell people that trying to hid it will only make it worse, Tim knew because he hid his

Frankl shows that you can get through anything if you put your mind to it by surviving through the Holocaust despite many others dying all around him in the concentration camps. Frankl always believed “That which does not kill me makes me stronger” (Frankl 82). I should incorporate this into my own life as this means that everything I do can only make me better. When I get frustrated with a topic I should remember that you can get through anything if you put your mind to it. Sometimes these things will hurt both mentally and physically but you just have to keep pushing through it in hopes of a brighter