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Born in Harlem, New York, in 1915, Arthur Miller studied at the University of Michigan before moving back East to write dramas for the stage. He earned widespread praise for the Death of a Salesman on Broadway in 1949 and won the Pulitzer Prize along with multiple Tonys. He received more acclaim for his award-winning follow-up, The crucible. Miller's public life was painted in part by his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. The playwright died at the age of 89 in 2005.

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this photo relates to both stories because in the poem ex-basketball player, Flick goes from a star basketball player to selling gas. This also relates to Death of a Salesman by the time period, although I don't know the time period of the poem, it relates because Death of a Salesman is during the Great Depression, which everything such as food, clothes, and gasoline, were very scarce.

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John Hoyer Updike was born on March 18, 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. In high school, he worked on the school newspaper and excelled in academics and upon graduation was admitted into Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At the age of twenty-two, Updike began his writing career when he published his first story "Friends from Philadelphia," in the New Yorker in 1954. Since childhood Updike had admired the New Yorker and always dreamed

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Literary Elements of Ex-Basketball Player 

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Literary Elements of Ex-Basketball Player 

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-Personification

That Pearl Avenue "runs" past the high-school lot and "Bends" with the tracks, then "stops, cut off" gives human quality to an object, the street, street.

-Simile
describing Flick, "His hands were like wild birds."

-Imagery
Flick towering over the "idiot pumps" "the bright applauding tiers" pretty much says the crowds once came to watch the town's superstar. Flick is not a superstar anymore. he is "Grease-gray," dirty from his menial job.

-Metaphor
The poem has a controlling metaphor in which Flick is like the street of the first line.  He was once a "Pearl," but because of missed opportunities, he also has been "stopped" and "cut off" before having "a chance" to go further in life.

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Literary Elements of Death of a Salesman 

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Literary Elements of Death of a Salesman 

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-Simile
"...that question has been trailing me like a ghost for the last fifteen years"
"He's not allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog"

-Irony
The last name "Loman" is pronounced "low-man" which describes Willy's low place in society even though he thinks otherwise.

Setting, characterization, symbolism, flashback, dialogue

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This poem starts off with just the street of the high school.
come to find out Flick Webb was one of the best basketball players the Widards (high school) had. He set a county record and was very tall he was a very talented athelete. NOw he works a job of selling gas , repairing flat tires, etc. Then the poem goes into his habits like how he smokes the 'thin cigars'. its the same theory in the play Death of a salesman.

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biffs football game and how it compares to poem 

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biffs football game and how it compares to poem 

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Biffs Football game was exciting for both willy and biff. They lost the game and his father was very disappointed in him. He was a great player and so was Flick. They both changed so much after they didn't have their sports to play. biff didn't even finish his education while flick at least got a job but it was a low level job.

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this picture could represent biff and how he feels after he lost the championship football game. He lost everything after that. His father was very disappointed in him.

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Willy was so proud to learn Biff was the championship player and to lose the game his dad was disappointed. Then he finds out biff isn't graduating, not to mention he refused to go to summer school either.

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Biff's Stardom of playing football and his father was so proud to know his son was playing in the championship football game. He will later be disappointed by the outcome.

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Flick was the best basketball player for the high school. The set a county record of 390 points, he would 'rack up thirty-eight to forty in one home game'

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death of a salesman vs Ex-basketball player 

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death of a salesman vs Ex-basketball player 

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the comparison between death of a salesman and the poem ex-basketball player is how they both were great stars doing what they loved, playing sports. Flick school ended so he had noting else but to work, he lived out his best life in high school and did nothing to make his talent known. For Biff he lost the Football game so he gave us school and everything. He pretty much threw away opportunities of education and sports. They both relate by how they were once great athletes to pretty much nobodies that didn't do much to grow and use their talent to become successful.

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this photo relates to the Death of a Salesman. Biff does not graduate because he failed. Willy told him to go to summer school but he refused to. He went from a star to a nobody in such little time.