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Life is hard. Everybody comes across a hard time in their lives where they have to work for their goals. Some people just give up, but if you keep going your hard work can pay off in the long run. The story, ´´The Marble Champ,´´ by Gary Soto, Lupe, the protagonist, learns that hard work pays off. Lupe is a shy girl and a straight-A- student, but she is no good at sports. When she finds a sport (marbles) she could maybe be good at, she never gave up in her hard work to achieve her goal. Lupe also experienced feeling good about herself. After practicing and lots of hard work things also got easier for her. Lupe was glad that she achieved all of these things because of her hard work.

Never give up. Always keep going. Try hard. Practice makes perfect. The Marble Champ by Gary Soto is a great story. A girl named Lupe is not good at sports but she finds something athletic that she could be good at. She found marbles. She practiced until she got so good, she won the marbles championship. For this matter, I think a possible theme in this story is to never give, just like Lupe did. A couple reasons why, are because she practices, perseveres, and always gives 100% effort.

The Marble Champ” by Gary Soto & “The 14th. Goldfish,” by Jennifer L. Holm, Both share many similarities. One theme I can make out of both stories is “Never Give Up.” One is a story about a scientist who is stuck as a teenager because of a mishap in his invention. The other story is about a girl who is good at all things but sports and has to work hard to get good at it. These stories both share similar themes. One, because they both are determined to become successful. Two, they both work hard in what they believe in. Three, they both have motivations that help them Never Give Up.

This can be seen all through the practices, competition trials, and Olympic races in which George Pocock’s words ring true every time. It is during the final Olympic race in which the boys realized, “that they needed to do what was impossible, to go even higher. Somewhere, deep down inside, each of the grades at shreds of will and strength they did not know they possessed,” (Brown, 350). Giving the reader a look at how these men have to put aside everything and focus on pushing themselves through the hardest race of their lives, shows the hopes and dreams that they all share to gain what others thought might be

When I was in grade 10, I used to be a player in my high school soccer team. In sport, there is a famous sentence that I’ve always remembered “You win some, you lose some” and it has changed the way I think about failure. For many people, “failure” means that we can’t achieve something that we’ve already set a goal for it. However, for me, failure is a thing that leads us to success.

Furthermore, achievements are the fuel that powers others to push themselves and set goals. It is the never ending desire to improve. Louie Zamperini spent his whole life training to be a better runner. In other words, the fastest olympic runner in the world. But what is left of someone who has been striped of everything they know and love? In Louie's eyes, the answer is nothing. When he went to war he aspired to show his dedication to his country, although he could have never predicted the outcome that he would soon receive. Throughout Louie’s journey of war, he was deprived of food, dehydrated and constantly abused and tormented. The list is never ending. Louie might had cheated death hand full of times, but when he looked at his body all “he thought, is a dead body breathing” (Hillenbrand 182). He was ashamed of what his body had become, and in a way he had lost his greatest achievement. “Legs that had sprung through a 4;12 mile over bright sande on that last morning on Kualoa were now useless” (Hillenbrand 182). In this moment Louie felt defeated the most, although his journey did not stop there. It gave him motivation. In the poem the narrator says the phrase “watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools” (Kipling 15-16). To sum it up, it means that if you can use other peoples’ mistakes or wrong doings to

She didn't care what other people said. When she told her mom, “I'm practicing for the Marble Championship,” Her mom acted surprised and didn't want her to play with a swollen finger. But, Lupe pushed through and kept herself driven. Lupe didn’t give up even if her family was surprised. Marbles isn’t the most popular game but even though it wasn’t Lupe still played. Another reason is, Lupe was motivated to play a sport. She pushed herself to play a sport and to try one. Even if it wasn't the most popular, she didn't care. Lupe tried and kept herself “pumped up.” Keeping yourself motivated is a great key to determination. Even if you are feeling like you want to give up,just remember determination is key and always keep yourself driven. It’s one of the best things to

A goal was set into action when Rudy, a football player, was given the opportunity to study at Holy Cross Community College. The movie Rudy is based on a boy who grew up in Joliet and hoped to play football for Notre Dame in the future. However, when Rudy’s best friend dies in an accident, Rudy left home in an attempt to achieve his goal of becoming a member of the Notre Dame football team. Throughout the movie, never giving up on dreams and working hard to accomplish life goals are shown as the overall theme. Rudy was always told that his goals were not realistic and to give up on them. Rudy fought hard and eventually did play for Notre Dame. Rudy proved those who told him “no” wrong. Rudy accomplished his goals to play football for his dream college. I’ve had a lot of goals so far in my life, but one big goal of mine is to eventually have one of my stories published in a novel.

It is a way to remind oneself that giving up is not an option; neither should be getting complacent with what is going on or your class in life. Perseverance should drive people to do good in their lives, much like it did for J.D. Vance. Much of my life is devoted to sports. I’ve played and have been a student of sports since I was five years old. There are not many days that I do not pick up a baseball bat or dribble a basketball. As can be imagined, I have fought my way through some tough situations; the one I remember the most vivid and learned that perseverance will make things better, was when I was in the fifth grade. I made the “A” team for basketball, and many might think, how is that an issue? Classmates and teammates even said that I should not be on the team because I was not fast enough, strong enough, and could not shoot well. They told me this, and it hurt my feelings (remember I am only in the fifth grade, so these were big issues). It was the first time I could remember that someone had doubted me, and it sucked. Instinctively I, being the competitive person I am, who will get wildly into a student-center air hockey game, wanted to prove my teammates wrong. I went to practice each day and worked my butt off, and even after practicing went out in my backyard and practiced more by putting up more shots. I was not going to let a bunch of fifth graders tell me I am not good enough to play the

In the story “Marble Champ” by Gary Soto the main character Lupe is determined because she works hard, is persistent,and above all she never gives up.

You are going to fail more times you succeed so keep trying because success is on its way. To start, the fiction book Playmakers, written by Mike Lupica, is about the rivalry between Ben McBain and Chase Braggs in basketball. Ben plays for the Rockwell Rams and Chase plays for Darby Bears. The author shows us the battles between Ben and Chase and the problems Ben faces such as one of there best players getting hurt. In the book two main themes show. The first theme is never give up and the second theme is treat others the way you want to be treated. These two themes show up throughout the book multiple times.

According to the passage the league of extraordinary Loser " A kid who loved basketball, and he did not make the varsity team, so then he had to spend his time on JV working his butt off sometimes scoring as many as 40 points per game."This is important because kids should never give up on what they love because with practice they could get better. As you fail you can end up succeeding in life just by a little practice so come on get to it i know you can do it. Just think of all the bad failures that happened to famous people and they would never be there if it was not for the failure, so if you want to be someone better start now.

He struggled hard to reach his goal. He was not touched by the obstacles he experienced, even when he had the idea of killing his dog, but in the end he fell victim to the cold after realizing that he could no longer

I feel that this excerpt stood out to me for many reasons. The first being that I am sure that many people can relate to this quote and feel that they had a similar experience. Personally, I can relate to this excerpt because I have tried playing another sport, and I tried my hardest to train, but after a little while, I started to realize that I wasn’t truly enjoying myself, which is what sports are all about. Another reason is because many people are unsure of what they want to be when they grow up, and end up spending their time in college for something they didn’t truly want to do. Finally, it seems that many parents choose for their kids what their career choice is going to be without the kid having a say in it. With that being said, many kids can end up doing something they don’t want to do for the rest of their life, and not enjoy the good things in life.

In the short story, “Stray”, by Cynthia Rylant, a young girl named Doris Lacey was shoveling one day when the protagonist saw a dog that was walking alone and shivering. Doris picked the helpless dog up and took the dog into her warm, cozy home.The theme of the story is that persistence pays off. Doris was persistent in the story by feeding the dog and the main character was also persistent by repeatedly asking her parents to keep the dog.