Tone

1.     The author write about baseball with the brilliant combination of mysticism and realism attitude toward the action.

2.      In this story is the mysticism and realism story, the author want his reader to understand the miraculously of baseball game.

3.     The author used baseball as an angle of story approach. This is a smart way of doing things. Today baseball's almost-universal applicability to matters of life and family. I think the author would be number one baseball fan.

 

 

Symbolism

 

1.       The symbols in the story are about baseball and baseball fan which is represent the baseball lover. The baseball field symbolizes the man's love and his home. The old men that work in replacing the astro-turf symbolize nature, restoring the grass, "Nature temporarily defeated. But nature is patient."

2.     The lover of the baseball game are seem to have the symbolic meaning. They would do anything to relate to the game that they love.

3.     a locksmith who is the narrator of this story is the one who act as a symbols in the story, which is represent the baseball fan who really love baseball game.

4.     The story has aspect to  setting the symbolic and involve with baseball and fan club which are the symbolic of the story.

The baseball and fan club are used throughout the story, started from beginning through the end of the story.

Imagery questionnaires

Imagery

 

1.   When the narrator went inside the stadium he contacted the synthetic grass and recalled his memory of the ball fields of his childhood, the outfields full of soft hummocks and brown-eyed gopher holes.

2.   Yes, the image of the story make me felt so good, because I realized that when a group of people who are dedicated to a same activity they would love to volunteer for the thing that they love.

3.   Author wants you to feel good.

4.   My reaction  contribute to the meaning of the story by making me feel cooperative so that I can support and agree with the story.

Point of view questionnaires

Point of view

 

1.   This story is telling from the narrator who is the main character in the story. He refer to himself as "I".

2.   The narrator who be the main character is the one who initiated an idea to do better field for the baseball player by convince fan of baseball to cooperate.

3.   The narrator had achieved his task. There are not only convince the fan to cooperated, but also convinced me to agree with his idea. The narrator wrote this short story with understanding what he going to narrated.

4.     The story was told by a narrator point of view. He reveal the story in step by step. He reveal fair important information known to the focal character.

Characters questionnaires

Character

 

1.   The main character in the story is the narrator, he is a locksmith and be a real  baseball fan. He is a first-base-side -fan for baseball math.

2.   The main character is an old man who has 2 daughters, one lives in Japan and another live in the city. He has a granddaughter. He lives with his wife name Maggie. He dreamed to be a baseball playing professionally.

3.   The old man want to make the baseball field better for the baseball player by changing the synthetic grass to be real grass. he went to see some baseball fan to be his accomplice with the other who really be fan to help him finish his goal. He is smart and be patience, these made him achieve his goal.

4.   In this story the old man has to start convincing other people and all those people have to be trusted friends and friends of friends. They have to try very hard and spend a long times to finish the task. Another difficulty is they have to keep secret within the people who be understand and people who remember the real grass.

Setting questionnaires

Setting

 

1.   The geographical location of the story is start in the baseball stadium, which is empty and silence because of the baseball player went on strike.

2.   The story start in the summer which is normally always be baseball match.

3.   The social environment is starting in a town, that has a stadium near town.

Plot Questionnaries

1)What is the story about?What are the main events in the story,and how are they related to each other?

Answer:
The story is about during the baseball strike, the author, with the help of other baseball fans.

2)Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically,or are they arranged in another way?

Answer:The main event of the story arranged in flashback, not in chronological order.

3)How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks,summaries,stories within the story used?

Answer:The story is about one person hate astro-turf and he plan to remove all the artificial grass and replace it with the real grass.

4)Is the plot fast-paced or slo-paced?

Answer:The plot of story is slow pace.

5)How do the thoughts,behaviors,and actions of characters move the plot forward?

Answer:The believes that "baseball is meant to be played on summer evenings and Sunday afternoon, on grass just cut by a horse drawn mower" ( that mean real grasses , not artificial one), this believes move the plot forward.

6)What are the conflict in the plot?Are they physical,intellectual,moral or emotional?Are they resolved? How are they resolved? Is the main conflict between good and evil sharply differentiated , or is it more subtle and complex?

Answer:I think the conflict in the plot is emotional, because author families are all baseball loving members. Other conflict of the plot include, the author don't let his wife to know his secret.

7)What is the climax of the story and at what point in the story does the climax occur? Is the ending of the story happy,unhappy,or indeterminate? Is it fairly achieved?

Answer:The climax of the story is when the author friend from Wall Street journal agree to go to the baseball field with him, and then the pilgrimage of changing turf begin, with more and more. "True believer" joining their "ritual". The ending is happy , that is because their goal achieved.

8)Does the plot have unity? Are all the episodes relevant to the total meaning or effect of the story? Does each incident grow logically out of the preceding incident and lead naturally to the next?

Answer:The unity of the story is also about "true believer", notice that the author is a "first base side fan", he only trust first base side friends, like his wsj friends. One if his daughter married a third base fans, he don't trust her to let her know his secret.

9)What use does the story make of chance and coincident? Are these occurrences used to initiate,to complicate,or to resolve the story? How I probe are they?

Answer:One of the coincidence if the plot is the author happen to be a locksmith for thirty years, and can open the gate of the baseball field, otherwise this story won't happen.

The Thrill of the Grass

The Thrill of the Grass
By W.P.Kinsella