https://padlet.com/trevor_707466/niklgks81ut0 by John Updike en-us 2018-04-30 04:47:01 UTC 2018-04-30 06:10:16 UTC hello@padlet.com trevor_707466 https://padlet.com/trevor_707466/niklgks81ut0/wish/256399334 John Updike has been publishing fiction, essays, and poetry since the mid-fifties. He was a staff writer at the New Yorker. His passion wasn't just writing but it was also art. He loved Shakespeare and his work. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1932 and died in 2009. He has many famous quotes, one of which is: "Sex is like money; only too much is enough." ]]> 2018-04-30 04:51:16 UTC https://padlet.com/trevor_707466/niklgks81ut0/wish/256399334 trevor_707466 https://padlet.com/trevor_707466/niklgks81ut0/wish/256400719 2018-04-30 05:05:43 UTC https://padlet.com/trevor_707466/niklgks81ut0/wish/256400719 trevor_707466 https://padlet.com/trevor_707466/niklgks81ut0/wish/256400921 The protagonist in this poem is a boy named Flick. His name is a characterization of basketball because you are suppose to flick your wrist on your shot to have a good shot. In the poem it also talks about how his hands are "like wild birds" when playing basketball. This is characterizing that he was good at basketball.]]> 2018-04-30 05:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/trevor_707466/niklgks81ut0/wish/256400921 trevor_707466 https://padlet.com/trevor_707466/niklgks81ut0/wish/256404340 The author uses personifications to give non-human things human characteristics so the reader can visualize. For example he says that "the avenue 'runs' past the high school" He also uses similes to compare things to liken it to the reader. "His hands were like wild birds" He also uses imagery and metaphors in the poem. All of these are used to help the reader visualize the story within the poem. ]]> 2018-04-30 05:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/trevor_707466/niklgks81ut0/wish/256404340 trevor_707466 https://padlet.com/trevor_707466/niklgks81ut0/wish/256405538 The poem is called Ex-Basketball Player for a reason. The protagonist, Flick, in the beginning of the poem is happy because of basketball. This quickly changes when it talks about how he never learned a trade so he "sells gas, checks oil, and changes flats." Flick is not happy with his life at the end of the poem and is going nowhere in life except for his lousy job. ]]> 2018-04-30 05:56:47 UTC https://padlet.com/trevor_707466/niklgks81ut0/wish/256405538 trevor_707466 https://padlet.com/trevor_707466/niklgks81ut0/wish/256405959 Flick in this poem is a lot like the main character, Willy Loman, in Death of a Salesman. They both had high hopes and happy lives but it quickly turned into a life filled with sorrow. ]]> 2018-04-30 06:02:41 UTC https://padlet.com/trevor_707466/niklgks81ut0/wish/256405959