Willie Morris Book Report

Willie May's fans will love to add this 1966 Topps Willie Mays #1 reprint card to their collection. The card features Willie Mays in his San Fransisco Giant's uniform with his glove on one hand, and a ball in the other. He played in the MLB for 22 years. Most of them with the San Fransisco Giants, and the New York Giants. Towards the end of his career he played for the New York Mets. He was inducted in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame during the first year that he became eligible, this was in 1979. Willie Mays, along with two other players share the record for the most All Star games played.

Billy Sunday was a professional baseball player from 1883 to 1891 for Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia teams. He was born to William Sunday and Mary Jane Corey on November 19th 1862 and died on November 6th 1935. Growing up his family lived in poverty, but that never let this challenge affect his life. After his father died in 1862 Billy and his family move to go live his grandparents for a few years. Billy and his older brother were sent to live in Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home in Davenport, where they received a decent education and began to improve his athletic skills. When Billy was 14, he wanted to earn money, so he began to work for Colonel John Scott. Before long, he was offered to stay with the Scotts, who made sure that Billy went to

Before the storm hit Doodle was trying very hard to learn how to walk and how to be like other kids. He got really tired and he kept trying to keep up with his brother but Brother was going to fast for Doodle and he knew it!

“ I prepared a terrific program for him.” Brother is even pushing him. He also says “I would teach him to run, to swim, to climb trees, and to fight.” He's saying he will and he is very determined because he wants a normal brother.” I should have already admitted defeat, but my pride wouldn't let me.” brother says he couldn't stop trying to get Doodle to run, swim, and fight like other kids but his pride wouldn't let him. He even admits that he was very

The narrator, Brother, tells the story of Doodle, his brother, and his childhood with all his disabilities; starting off by telling about Doodle when he was a baby and toddler, about how he could not do much for himself for a long time, but eventually learns to crawl. He soon moves onto when Doodle got a little older and Brother would have to take him everywhere he went and how the two would take on the mission of teaching Doodle to walk; they spent almost everyday out in the woods making Doodle stronger and stronger. On Doodle’s sixth birthday, they showed the family what he could do;

When Doodle is first born and after about three years he is being taught how to walk like normal people walk and his brother is not to thrilled about it he is just doing it because he does not want to drag him around and be dead weight so he does this so he does not have to deal with him as much.

When Doodle was first born he was very weak. Nobody would ever believe that he would ever amount to anything. Some even though he would die. Someone like his brother. The narrator always wanted a brother or someone to do something with. But he was not expecting his brother to turn out like he did. He gave his brother the name Doddle after the Doodlebug. His Brother had to carry him everywhere. He became sick of this and also embarrassed to have a brother that was 5 and could not even walk. So he began to teach him.

The book I read is Dog Tags and the book takes place in WW2, it`s about a boy who lies about his age so he can get into the military. His squadron is attacked and his position is overrun by the Nazis and a tree fell over and knocked him out and when he wakes up he is alone. I would recommend this book for readers that like war history books. The book enables you to appreciate the character’s thoughts and feelings. The reader can empathize with the characters.

As Doodle learns how to walk his brother wants to teach him how to be more like the other six year old kids out of his embarrassment towards Doodle. That embarrassment lead to his own pride overcoming his intuition. The narrator’s distorted judgement causes him to want to teach Doodle to run, to swim, to climb trees and to fight when his disability barely allows him to walk. “‘ Wake up, Doodle. Wake up.’

Literature is the foundation of our beliefs, cultures and traditions. It is why as human beings we thrive in the world, learning from the past through stories and illustrations that create emotion, desire and inspiration. It was literature that started Adolf Hitler’s reign, through the simplicity of words. When World War 2 began, literature was a basis of hope, it would encompass emotion and for many their last mark on the world. Little Polish Boy, (1969), written by Peter Fischl, a survivor of the Holocaust, explores the war through a child’s perception. The poem highlights the naïve nature of children, witnessing an act of inhumane proportions, their voices suddenly neglected and powerless. In comparison, the Boy in The Striped Pyjamas, a novel written by John Boyne in 2006 demonstrates children’s willingness to defy an ingrained war culture due to the naivety of their actions and understanding.

Subsequently, the theme is shown again as the story continues on. Here Grandpa shows his determination to getting Billy in a hunting contest.. “ ‘Billy,’ he said, ‘it takes some doing to have a set of dogs entered in this hunt. I’ve been working on this for months. I’ve written letters on top of letters. I’ve even had several good friends in town helping me. You see, I’ve kept a record of all the coons your dogs have caught, and believe me, their catch is up there with the best of them’ “ (Rawls 157). In this example, Rawls proves not just the main character, Billy, but Grandpa also shows persistence through hard work, showing

Euripides' Medea Medea is the tragic tale of a woman scorned. It was written in 431 B.C. by the Greek playwright, Euripides. Eruipides was the first Greek poet to suffer the fate of so many of the great modern writers: rejected by most of his contemporaries (he rarely won first prize and was the favorite target for the scurrilous humor of the comic poets), he was universally admired and revered by the Greeks of the centuries that followed his death('Norton Anthology';). Euripides showed his interest in psychology in his many understanding portraits of women ('World Book';). Euripides choice of women support characters such as the nurse and the chorus is imperative to the magnification of Medea's emotions.

Responsibility Imagine that you’re an amateur mountain climber but one day, you decide you’re going to climb Mount. Everest. Imagine training for months climbing smaller mountains, hiking, and going to the gym so you have some kind of preparation. Soon, the day comes to go on your journey up the mountain. However, to your surprise, the continuous training turns out not to have been enough.

My favorite day of spring break was probably Wednesday. My least favorite day was probably every other day. On Wednesday, my family went downtown and had fun together. Every other day, I was babysitting two fourth and sixth grade boys.

The story “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien is an enormously detailed fictional account of a wartime scenario in which jimmy Cross (the story’s main character) grows as a person, and the emotional and physical baggage of wartime are brought to light. The most obvious and prominent feature of O’Brien’s writing is a repetition of detail. O’brien also passively analyzes the effects of wartime on the underdeveloped psyche by giving the reader close up insight into common tribulations of war, but not in a necessarily expositorial sense.. He takes us into the minds of mere kids as they cope with the unbelievable and under-talked-about effects or rationalizing