Summary
Josh wasn’t a very good student in
Spanish class so he went to his teacher Ms. Molina to ask her what he can do
for extra credit. Then they start chatting together and Josh asks Ms. Molina
why she is in a wheel chair, she tells him that when she was a kid she got very
ill and she had problems with her spine. Her parents were very poor and
couldn’t afford medication. But one special person, Roberto Clemante, a very
famous and loved baseball player offered to help out. He insisted on flying
over to Porto Rico to give Molina $100 in order for her to buy medicine.
Unfortunately his plane crashes and he dies and never gets a chance to give
Molina the $100 he had promised her family. So Josh decides to go back in time
to warn Roberto not to take the flight.
In order
for Josh to go back in time he has to use an old baseball ticket that dates
back to 1972. When Josh arrives back in time and is in the stadium watching
Roberto’s baseball game he decides that this is the time to tell Roberto about
the flight. When the game ends Josh and Sunrise, a friend he met when he went
back in time, meet Roberto and tell him that he shouldn’t take the flight to
Puerto Rico. Roberto promises Josh not to take the plane and gives Josh $100 to
help him.
When Josh
comes back to the present time he discovers that Roberto did not keep his
promise and took the plane and it crashed.
Josh
receives a visitor from the future, his great great grandson who invites him to
go with him to the future. Josh agrees, when he visits the future he discovers
that global warming has ruined the world, and promises his great grandson that
he will help as much as he can. What will happen with the $100 that Roberto
gave Josh, read the book to find out.
Genre
This book
is science fiction because Josh travels from present day to 1909 and then to
2080. In page 17 “When I opened my eyes, I wasn’t in my house in Louisville,
Kentucky anymore. I was in the year 1909… with Honus Wagner.”
Character Development
At the
beginning Josh was not familiar with humanitarian work, as the story develops
he is more aware of how he can help people in need. In page 164 “I’d like to
buy an envelope please…I fished the $100 bill from my pocket and slipped it
into the envelope she gave me.” “That’s a lot of money to be sending through
the mail the lady told me” This shows that towards the end of the book Josh
sends money to help the poor in a children’s hospital in Puerto Rico.
Author’s Characterization
The
author describes the character’s thoughts and emotions in a specific way. This
helps the reader picture in his mind what the character feels and what he is
going to do. In page 132 “Bernard probably had a lot of questions he wanted to
ask me too…” “You feel the tingling sensation. Yeah he replied, in my
fingertips…” “I knew exactly what he was experiencing.”
Setting
This book
takes place in school in the present time. In the past it takes place in the
baseball stadium. In page 10 “Tito is my Spanish name. On the first day of
school.” In page 86 “This time Clemente went to field the ball, but it ticked
off his glove and bounced about 10 feet away.”
Point of View
This
book is written in 1st person point of view, which means “I” or
“me”. I think this point of view helps the reader know the character better. It
also lets the reader know the internal thinking of the character and his
feelings.
Theme
The
theme of this book is necessity of the past and future in one’s life. In the
book Josh does many journeys to the past and to the feature this is what makes
him humanitarian. In page 126 “Ever since my first experience traveling through
time, I dreamed of going to the future. If I could move backward in time, why
not forward?”
Reflection
I
think this book maters because it shows people how they should be generous and
help people in need of money or help. I liked this book because it was nice and
a bit sad at the same time. I would recommend it to people that are interested in
baseball. I would give this book an 8/10. I gave it an 8 because I think the
book would be more interesting if Roberto did not take the plane and stayed
alive.
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