FEVER PITCH

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in these five few pages of the unpleasantly 239 long pages of NICK HORNBY'S FEVER PITCH(at least to me, anyway),Mr. Hornby finds himself excited to have a new determining factor in his otherwise not-so-exhilerating life, as well as a new mode communication, especially with his rather estranged "fatha" which he himself,somewhere between hesitantly and with pleasure, concedes in his book.
in any case, this new "determining factor" and "mode of communication" we're alluding to is football(the one where you exclusively utilize and play with your two legs and contact with hands is forbidden?huh?)
but this new dimension in his life serves to undermine his already fragile life through "severe disappointments" that "threaten"... him with "permanent,depressive insanity",as he so wittingly puts it.
his love of the game backfires,SEVERELY, in the form of "constant betrayals" on the part of his father (because of the low passion he has for the game.)(to the contrary, the son is "obsessed" with the game,as he admittingly reveals in the book.)


Mandoud Omar...

Macks Football

I think the characters experiences cause the to grow because in my book there is a project that the girl Macey need to do. So, as usual she asks her grandparents a topic to choose from and when they don't have no suggestions for her, she asks about the fire that happened at the Devindorf's farm. (Lives a couple houses down from grandparents) They dont explain much to her but pleads with her to find another topic. As a teenager, she elects to stick with the topic and start doing some research about how the fire started. At the bonfires, she ask the neighbor what happened but she really can't give but a few details,






Tamere Shannon

God Don't Like Ugly

My book im reading is call GOD DON'T LIKE UGLY BY MARY MONROE. This book is about a girl name Annette who live with her mother. Her mother abusese her all the time. When she get mad and treat her like nothing, Everything change for Annette after she turn 13 and meet her new bestfriend Rhonda. Rhonda and Annette was two different people and live two diiferent live style. Thet became bestfriend and everything change for both of them. Everything was good until the secert come out.

the outsiders 5

In the book the outsiders i have sympthy for ponyboy brother because he has alot of responbilty like taking care of ponyboy and supporting the family an that is alot of work for one child that can't even barely support hisself. The real reason i have sympathy for him is because he is envolved in a gang and it has gotten to his head which led him to being put in the hospital almost paralized which leaves who to take care of ponyboy and more and sympathy goes out to them to.

outsiders 4

The character ponyboy is motivation in the story is the fact that he lives in one of the worst nieboorhoods that has so much violence and things tht will bring him down. So ponyboy uses all these bad thing as an motivation to move out and achieve his life goals to better himself. ponyboy did reach his goals in the book by getting away and starting all over

Outsiders 3

In the story the outsiders there is a couple of characters that seem real and the character that i think can be real is the main character Ponyboy. I can compare him to an boy i know they both lead the same life my friend andrew mother died and follows the life of an gangster he does wild stuff just as ponyboy he robs stels and fights all the time . Youu can see why i compared these two together because the to of them are alwys up to no good and they both are willing to straightin out there lifes and ready to go down the right road and do right

Macks Football

My book is about a fifteen year old girl named Macey. She stays with her parents but you can say that she lives with her grandparents which stays a couple of miles down the road. She is a smart girl who participates in alot of after school activities. Her grandparents are caring and supportive in whatever she does and they want to see her succeed.

In my opinion, the characters in my story seem believable. The girl (Macey), sounds like a regular high school student who likes to participate in after school activities. Also her grandparents seem believable because they spend as much time with her as possible and help her out when she needs it. I can relate to the grandparents because what grandparents you know doesnt want to spend time with their grand-children? I can relate to the grandparents helping Macey because they have the knowledge and by passing this down to her is only going to benefit her in the long run.





Tamere Shannon

The outsiders part 2

Some of the characters in my book does change during the course of the story like the main character. He life changes in the very begining of he story when his mother died in an car accident,and causd him to live with his brother where the surroundings are bad.With this change it caused him to be an bad boy in the streets or you can call it being a gangster. He starts to get into gang fights,robbing,stealing,and just getting into a big ring of trouble.After all these things happen he realize that this life wasn't for him. His brother that was looking after him got jump and almost lose his life. Things started to look different to him like all that gangs fight.He got a job went back to finish high school. Started to help around the house more. He also took care of his brother that was in the hospital paralized until things got better.

imani All Mine

In the story Imai all Mine, themain charcter is really motivated because of the fact that she has been through so much in her life. She had a baby at a young age and he mother put her through alot of stuff in her life also. She had been raped by her babys father and she had many different obstacles growing up.
One night her and her baby were sitting up in her room and she needed to go downstairs to pick something up and left the baby in the room. She strarted hearing gunshots outside because she definitely lived in a bad neighborhood. As she heard the gunshots the first thing she thought about was to get down. When the gunshots were over she ran upstairs and saw her daughter laying their on the floor with a bullet wound to the head. her baby got to the hospital but the doctors came back and told her that her daughter imani was dead.
her motivation was so powerful because she had tomove on without that much support in her home and she had to live life as if nothing happened. her motivation i'm sure helped other people in their life who's gone through the same thing she's gone through.

Fever Pitch,Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby's book,Fever Pitch,isn't no typical sports book.the didn't win high appraises ,from "the best sports book of the year" to "the funniest of the year"(clearly surpassng the comedy releases at the time.for that title to be bestowed on a sports writer,it's gotta men something.)(I got these from the back of book,by the way.) from both the sport's supporters and critics for nothing.it is hornby's style of writing that made the difference on this occasion in sport literature.(it shouldn't be a surprise if it is cited as among the best in sports literature 20 or 30 or 60 years from now.)
The style I' ve been preluding to is the mix of comedy as well as seriousness (of the work).Hornby makes perfect use of this genre and capitalizes on every point in the story. I'm not familiar with this genre in literature(perhaps I would rather prefer a comedy in motion pictures than in black ink on paper) other than the occasional cartoons I glance at in the newspapers every now and then,but I must admit Nick Hornby's use of this type of "comedy" in literature did capture my attention.

Macks Football

My book is called "Burning Up" by Caroline B. Cooney. It is abbout a gurl who lives with her parents who are sucessful in what they do so she stays at her grandparents house alot. Her grandparents are supportive and likes to cook.


Tamere Shannon

Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer Pages: 1-144

So, the book I'm reading is about this early twenty something kid who
is pretty alienated. It's a nonfiction book, and since I haven't
summed it up yet in a previous response, it's about a kid who is
searching for meaning in life and seeks this meaning by exploring.
At the beginning of the book we find out that he ends up dying in the
middle of Alaska to exposure.

Even though I think I'm supposed to, I'm having a really hard time
identifying with the main character, Chris McCandless. I look at
the cover and there's this picture of Emile Hirsch portraying
McCandless. He's a good looking kid, and he's kind of sitting in this
"top of the world" type dominant pose. The author seems to really
identify with the character, and spends a couple of chapters relating
his own similar experiences. And McCandless is seemingly the rugged,
individualistic antihero that Americans celebrate.

But, I can't get into him, and I think it's because I'm a parent
now. I see the way this kid abandoned his parents, went off into the
middle of nowhere, took chances, didn't write home, and espoused his
theories on the way life works to whomever would listen, and I'm
like, "dude...call your mom, dad and sister. They're worried sick."
The kid is kind of portrayed as this spiritual, deep Thoreau quoting
prophetic figure, but he just strikes me as naive and self centered.
I don't know what I'd do if I was his parent. I would be devastated
if my son took off after graduating college and just disappeared.
It's really rather sad.

(By the way, if you're wondering, this response is to the 7th bullet
under character. The total length of this response is 279 words. I
summed up the book to start because I figured you'd need that
information, but then I really tried to stick to talking about
whether or not I identified with the main character and why.)

Taste of my book

"Fever Pitch",by author Nick Hornby, is centered around the sport soccer,known worldwide as "football" and its effects on society and particularly,on the young men and boys living within those societies.
In this case, the young man is the author and the society is a small town in the UK.Hornby is recounting how he has gotten acquainted with game.

M. Omar

the outsiders

The Outsiders is the name of book the author is Walter Dean Meyers. The book is about a young boy who experiences the death of his parents at a young age which he's left with his older brother and the to of them get involved in a gang and starts a hole new life that involves violence and lots of life exprience



one thing i like about this book is that it shows how your life can change in a blink of an eye and how your surroundings can effect your way of life.