My book is about a man named Biddy Owens who lives for baseball. He his the equipment keeper and scorekeeper and sometime right fielder for the Birmingham Black Barons. He his in the Negros League. White baseball owners don't want to add to many black players to there team because of the racial tensions but that doesn't let Billy down. The only blacks that the owners want are the ones that react a certain way and not get offended by racism. Billy's team is one of the best Negro baseball teams there is. The civil rights movement is in motion. The people are watching Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby now that they see that black don't care if you make fun of their skin. Billy want's to be like them.
Conflict & Theme-
Billy and his whole team gets screamed at and people saying racial words. The civil rights movement is a go and blacks are fighting for their rights. In the book it say that white's are yelling out the N word. I think the message is don't let nothing get in your way. Even if white's tell billy that he can't go in that restaurant
or theater and there saying racial words he still goes forward and follows his dreams.
Victor,
ReplyDeleteThis book is really good, but it seems that your blog was repetitive. You kept saying that it was going through the civil rights movement. How was this affecting the main character? Internal conflict right? Describe how that conflict was affecting him that ties with the them of "never giving up." Be clear in your writing and make sure you edit your work before publishing.