Baseball_In_April

Baseball In April 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”. school, one, karate, work, thumb, thought, movie, day, after, through, think, taking, story, started, play, off, never, marbles, marble, lessons, know, kids, kid, high, great, exercises, doing, didn’t, dad, competitions, came, around, about, young, years, women’s