Paul's Lesson: A Narrative Fiction

Even Paul’s teammates on the Lake Windsor team were making fun of him. But all Paul did was put it behind him and pay attention to playing goalie. In addition, his own family let him down: “Honey you know how it is with your eyesight. You know you can’t see very well” (Bloor 4). Paul could see everything, he could see more than his parents ever noticed but no one believed him.

That summer, Simpson’s father, Phil, who was a great athlete in his own right, called and asked me if I could take him to the Five Star Basketball camp in Pittsburgh. Every July I would take several of the top players in our area to Five Star, an invitation only camp that featured many of the best high school players in the country. I told Phil that I did not think he would get in because the camp’s youngest players were rising sophomores and Greg was only entering his freshman year. I gave him an application and told him to give it a try but not to be disappointed

Paul's has just moved to Gate a prestigious school at which his mother works at. Coming out of a troubling divorce his mother packs up pal and moves. A few weeks after he moved to town he started becoming friends with Charlie. People's differing views towards Charlie leaves Paul at a stuck point with many people in his life. For example Binky, Paul's best friend for a while took him in, hung out with him, and made him feel like a friend.

The choices that Erik made throughout his life never came without consequences, many of his choices, whether they were choices directed to him or not, affected Paul. Paul illustrates this idea by saying, “When we moved to Houston, when Erik was eleven, he realized that football was the star attraction,”(Bloor 29) This is talking about the “birth” of the “Erik Fisher Football Dream”; Erik use to play soccer and was successful at it, but he realized that football was the place to be if he wanted attention. Paul could’ve started playing soccer at that time as well and Erik didn’t want to risk being outshined by his younger brother. Another way Erik affected Paul, in a more indirect way, was when Arthur becomes Erik’s crony, “What will Arthur do

In the end paul remembers that erik put paint on paul's eyes that why paul is blind.Paul went to new middle school st anthony. Luis Cruz died because arthur killer luis. Mr.fisher take him to his new school.

According to the NCAA, only about 0.03% of high school basketball players get drafted out by an NBA team. 0.03% is such a little percentage that it is the same chance of someone getting four of a kind in a first round of poker (www.norwichcsd.org/Downloads/ ProSportsOdds.doc). With this striking percentage it is amazing to think so many young players hope to make it to the pros. In the end, regret and defeat are much too common, a theme that John Updike features in his poem, “Ex Basketball Player”. The poem's persona, Flick Webb, was surely not one of those lucky 0.03%. Flick Webb was the star basketball player at his high school. Now older, he works at a gas station, sometimes reliving his old dream by gloomily bouncing a tire by himself.

Paul is a rising star on the sports field. He has been working exceedingly hard on and off the field to get to where he is today, the starting position. Some of his team mates,

To begin with, Paul is counseling having flashbacks about his family and secrets that are untold. The author

Paul watched his entire high school class die in war. When Albert got shot he sweared “If they take off my leg, I'll put an end to it” to Paul (Remarque,242). Paul try's his hardest to keep them together, but in the end Paul get sent off to the front knowing once he leaves Albert will end his own life. When Paul is back at the front his father figure Kat gets shot. He carries Kat to the matic and thinks “Kat is saved” (Remarque,290). But “it'll never be over, until” he “tell me it's over” (Fiasco). Paul is told by a matic “he is dead”, he tried to prove he was alive, but to Paul's dismay he found his last friend was dead (Remarque,290). Paul has lost everyone he has ever loved and then lost all hope and strength to live on. Out of physical wounds and mental wounds the loss of a loved one and loss of hope is the worst part of

Paul knew the importance of this meeting. He had already been in this before more than once maybe twice. As he sat in complete silence, his last encounter with Principal Sweet played in his mind over and over again.

Paul was a self-oriented boy, concerned with money, wealth, and glamour, raised in a Calvinist household that supported these ideals. Through my research I have decided that Paul's eventual fate was not any one person's fault. Paul was just as much to blame as his father and teachers for Paul's suicide.

The sun was beating down on Timothy’s neck, walking hand in hand with his younger brother walker and a stranger. Tim’s eyes stung from bawling the night before and his body was bruised from being roughed up by the mysterious man. One second enjoying the sights of Austin, Texas, the next being shoved into a back of a car and taken away. It’d been almost a day since he’d seen his parents and neither him nor his brother knew where where

Paul finally escaped the hostile world he lived in, but his money-bought romance did not last long. When he discovers that his theft has been made known in the new papers, and all the stolen money has ran out, he knew he had to go back to his real life. After a week of having the glamorized life he was longing for, Paul refused to go back to face the reality that he left behind in Pittsburgh. Paul knew he couldn’t go on forever in the City with no money in his pockets so he decided to give up on his own life. While going to get on his train that would bring him back to reality, Paul stepped out in front of it and killed himself.

The setting of the short story “Paul’s Case” is clear and appropriate for the story. This is because Paul's feelings in the story happen to have a direct connection to the setting of the story. The East Coast of the United States is where the story takes place. From Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Newark, New Jersey, and then on to New York, New York, the exact setting differs throughout the story. “…the dull dawn was beginning to show grey when the engine whistled a mile out of Newark” (Cather). At this point in the story, the main character, Paul, is on board a train which has departed from his hometown of Pittsburgh en route to the Jersey City Station. From there, he plans to make his way to the glamorous New York City, a city

He has played on two different soccer teams, Lake Windsor Downs Middle School and Tangerine Middle School. Paul is legally blind, so he has these coke-bottle glasses that make him look like an alien. With the help of his flashbacks, Paul remembers what truly happened to his eyesight. Because he didn’t know the truth, Paul just told people that he had looked up into an eclipse when he was younger. Pauls mom and dad try to keep the truth away from Paul, but he finds out and is really upset. Pauls mom said to Paul, “We had to find a way for you not to hate your brother.” And Paul replies to this, “So you would rather have me hate