The Journey Of Roy Hobbs In The Natural

Mariano Rivera’s wife, Clara, got news that two family members died at a pool accident. What happened was that the pool got electrified by accident when the wires of an electric fence got in the pool. When one jumped into the pool, he got knocked out and died from drowning. When Victor, the other family member sees him, he jumps in the water to rescue him and he receives the same fate (172). This was a devastating loss for Mariano but he had to work through it. He end did working through it, and finished off his career with the most saves by any closing pitcher ever. On his final game ever, Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, and Andy Pettite take the ball from and congratulate him. He especially thanks Jeter, because he has been with him ever since the minor leagues and has been his best friend on the baseball field. Mariano concludes the book soon after his final game, but he does give thanks to everyone who has helped him along the way and thanks God as

In the sports novel The Batboy by Mike Lupica Brian is the batboy for a Major League Baseball team. During the season he meets his idol, Hank Bishop, who is not who Brian thought it would be. The theme of the the book is to never give up, which is expressed by both of the main characters in the book.

Young Ty decided to defy his father’s future plans for him and try his luck at becoming a professional baseball player.

hit home runs but is given a broken bat to use. He doesn't have the chance to prove

“A young player with great natural talent.”(Overview: The Natural, pg.2) The title of the book is symbolic to the natural talent that Roy Hobbs is blessed with. “The novel’s title repeats the duality implicit in Roy’s role. A “natural” in baseball jargon is a player with outstanding natural talent.”(Understanding Bernard Malamud, pg.3) Roy is seen as a natural to many people, even by people who dislike him. People started to doubt him, especially if they didn’t like him. “People questioned his bat and if it was legal to use because of how well he was hitting. His bat was legal.”(Overview: The Natural, pg.4) Outside of baseball, Roy Hobbs was judged by his character. “Hobbs never grows in any meaningful way and despite his natural talents, his other failings keep him from achieving his true potential.”(Overview: The Natural, pg.3) Many said that Roy didn’t grow or improve on a personality standpoint. “Then again, Malamud’s Hobbs, however talented was hardly an attractive character.”(The Natural: pg.7) Even those who dislike Roy Hobbs’s character it is undeniable the true, natural talent that Roy Hobbs inherits for

Kevin Baker described him as “staggering in his self-absorption” (Baker, xii). This means that he is confident to the point that he believes he can do everything himself, and doesn’t care about the rest of his team. Roy is also a very greedy man, and his greed is accentuated by his baseball skills. For example, Roy’s contract entitled him to make three thousand dollars for the season. Within a few weeks, he decided that this was not enough, so he spoke with the team owner about a raise. In the novel, it says that: “He figured for himself a flat forty-five thousand dollars for the rest of the season” (Malamud, 89). Forty-five thousand dollars is more than most baseball players made in an entire season, and he was asking for this astronomical amount for only half of a season. Each of these traits can be considered one of Roy’s tragic flaws. His greed and his self-confidence both contribute to his downfall at the end of the novel, in which he is humiliated due to his acceptance of a bribe to throw an important game and lose the pennant. In the New York Times, an article written by Harry Sylvester stated: “Roy Hobbs almost achieved greatness, but was distracted or betrayed by people, objects, or events equated with elements in our environment” (Sylvester, www.nytimes.com/books/97/04/06/home/baseball-natural.html). Sylvester is saying that Hobbs has the potential to be a

This ability to adapt is also exemplified by Roy Hobbs. He is a small town boy who has to strike out The Whammer on three pitches to even get a chance at the big leagues. After mounting the pressure he is shot by a conniving mistress wearing a black veil and is hospitalized for multiple years. While most would

Another part in the movie shows Kirby Higbe, his teammate in the Brooklyn Dodgers, aiming the baseball for Robinsons head. Throughout the movie Higbe Chapmans and Higbes actions show evidence of segregation in sports because they are treating Robinson as if he does not belong in baseball, for example, Ben Chapman stated “why don’t you get that boy you sent down to the International League, huh? That’s where the Africans play, ain’t it?” (“42” 01:14:57- 01:15:04)

“How could you live in such a dreadful place?” The sun poured down on us like you were in the desert the shade of the trees tried shying away from the sun. But one great man said, “It is just as hot for the other team as it is for you.” So we competed each game as if it were our last. We were in the land of Omaha, Nebraska. This tournament taught me that baseball is a lot like life; there will always be a friend right beside you, someone trying to stop you and a new place. Thus I used the following archetypes, cross into unknown world, have great sidekicks and a destructive force trying to stop you from your goals to teach me this was a lot like life.

When Roy succeeds in striking him out, the Whammed knows that "he was, in the truest sense of it, out." In achieving the impossible and striking the Whammed out, Roy essentially starts his own journey to the top, and begins the gradual decline of the Whammed. This is step one of the cycle of life . Later on in the book, Malamud shows us another the next basic step of the cycle at work. It has been some 30-odd years since his encounter with the Whammed, and now Roy is in pro-ball himself. He is adored by fans and feared by his opponents; some going as far as to compare him to a "gorilla" with "burning eyes". Since defeating the Whammed, Roy goes on to take up his mantle as the best in the business; he proves that he was newer and better than the Whammed and then moves on to replace him. Malamud then shows us the final step in the process, the hero himself being replaced. During a game against the Pirates, Roy is

After, Robinson played a great season and spring training in Panama, he moves up the branch to play for the Dodgers. When the Dodger’s heard about a “Negro” joining the team, Robinson’s teammates started signing a petition, saying they refuse to play with Robinson. This scene shows how his teammates doesn’t want to play with him because of the color of his skin. But manager Leo Durocher demanded that Robinson will play with the major team. When Durocher was suspended by Happy Chandler, the Commissioner of Baseball, for actions in his personal life, Burt Shotton agrees to take care of the team.

It started with tryouts. The tryouts were different because there were people of all ages, ethnicities, and religions. It proved that baseball brings people of different backgrounds together for a simple love of the game. The film also had interviews of many of the players and they were all just so eager to be there. Baseball gave them new opportunities to travel, meet new people, learn new things, and the chance to make history.

The title also plays a large role on the movie expirience as well as the affect the movie has on the viewers. The Natural, is probably one of the most difficult titles to investigate; a man is shot, by who I believe was once a lover of his. I am thinking that the reasoning, or impact of the title on the movie is that he was “a natural” at baseball, because he often speaks of how great he is at the sport. A League of Their Own, is a more self explanitory movie; the title comes from the subject topic of women literally creating their own baseball league while the men were at war. And finally, The Field of Dreams, this movie is also quite self-explanitory, a man hears voices “dreams” that are telling him to do things such as build and ease pain,

The natural is a movie that is talking about a baseball player who is called Roy Hobbes who wanted to be the best and break records but he had some obstacles that delay his dream as he is meeting with many different persons that are some of them are evil that are getting him down and some are good that helps him to improve. Roy Hobbes was very talented but he was shot by a fan and after 16 years he came back to a professional career and after some conflicts with the coach he became the best player on his team and led them to win the championship and helped his manager Bob to save his club.