Baseball in April
By: Jon • Essay • 412 Words • December 28, 2009 • 1,302 Views
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Baseball In April by Gary Soto is a pretty cool book.
It interested me because it was written by a Mexican/
Chicano author. I regularly support People of my race. The
book is composed of about 10 short stories, all about young
people. It’s mostly about what kids go through in life. I
liked the one titled “The Karate Kid”. Who doesn’t get that
adrenaline going on after you see the Karate Kid movie?? I
know that I used to. I used stand like a stork with one knee
up high in the air. This Gilbert guy was really amazed by
the movie that he thought by doing that taunt he would scare
off bully. Boy did he get surprised when it didn’t work. So
after he got beat up in front of the whole school, he signed
up for karate lessons. The lessons didn’t work either so he
still got bullied around. He got tired of it and was glad
when the school closed. He preferred reading than watching
the movie, which was fake as the comics he read. I also do
think that karate for Mexicans don’t work. The Mexican way
of fighting is a madrazo limpio and a machetazos. Nada que
kick y chop.
Another story I thought was pretty cool was the “The
Marble Champ”. I know that a lot of kids have this problem
of having a great mind, but struggle when it comes to
physical action. I never went through this because my dad
used to play for a soccer team and I used to practice with
him in my childhood years. The main character was a girl
named