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.