FCR #5
Out of the Pocket, Bill Konigsberg. Qtr. 2, Cycle 8 Reading Response, pages 147-200
In
this section of the book, everyone is beginning to accept that Bobby is gay and
they are treating him like a regular person now. Bobby's boyfriend, Byran is
helping him along the way to be proud of who he is and to not let anyone bring
him down. On the football field however, when they went to play at a visiting
teams field Bobby was called names such as faggot and gay boy and they put up a
big sign saying no gays on the field. Bobby learned to ignore all the harsh
comments given to him and to just play football the way he played even before
people knew he was gay.
The
author uses voice in this section of the story because he has Bobby speak up
for himself when people gave comments against gays that he disliked. He grew Bobby
to become a mature man and to respect people even when they don't say the
nicest things to him. The author organizes this so that it is the recovery
process for bobby after becoming openly gay and mocked at, he is recovering to
become the best person he can be even if he is gay. The authors choice of words
and ideas help to create good sentence fluency in this part because it helps to
fully describe how Bobby is doing in the book like when it says that Bobby is
getting used to the face that people know he's gay. I think the author used the 6 traits good and
that it is helping to create a good story.
The
author has framed this part of the book as the recovery process of Bobby as he
is now becoming more comfortable with people knowing he's gay. I noticed how
the author has Bobby do a lot of things to ignore the people that still do
ridicule him for being gay such as toning them out or just ignoring them as he
plays in the football game. I think the reasons for this is to help create more
of a story out of this Bobby being gay and to explain more in detail how Bobby
is dealing with open gayness as he was not that comfortable with it in the
beginning.
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