The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
In the beginning the girl Trishia was sitting in the back seat of the car listening to her mom and brother fight. They were going on there Saturday outing to a nature forest. While on the trail Trishia had to urinate so she called to her mom, but her mom was busy arguing with Pete the brother. She ducked off in the woods to urinate when she saw other people near her. She went further into the woods and got lost. At first, she wasn't worried she thought they would recognize that she was lost and find her. She was smart because she didn't eat all of her lunch she rationed it out. That night she took out her Walkman and listened to the Red Sox game and that was her only line to the world. The next day she woke up thinking she was in her bed, when she noticed she was in the woods she started to cry. She ate some of her lunch and started to follow the creek because she thought it would lead her to people. She was walking up a hill when she slipped and fell down the hill, and smooshed her lunch and punctured her water supply. Out of food and water, she was forced to eat berries and drink from the creek. That night she took out her Walkman and hoped it worked after her fall, then she listened to the Sox again and heard a ne
Her family is on the ruins after her parents got divorced. In conclusion, Patricia Mcfarland is very brave, smart, and lonely. The title is very misleading with only a few references to baseball. She has to find berries and live of creek water. The next night she drank from the creek and ate some berries, In the night she awoke and threw up her meal all over her pack, also she had a case of diarrhea and she fell in it. It wasn't about baseball it was about a girl who was lost in the woods for nine days and the story of her survival. Lastly most of us couldn't stand one day like this, but she lasted nine. Reaction To Something I ReadThe one thing that stands out that I read is when she started to have her hallucinations and starts to talk to her idle Tom Gordon (a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox). She would talk to Tom and ask him questions about closing a baseball game and his secrets to success and why he points to the sky after a win. She had to stare down a bear that was going to kill her and had to bare with the nights in the woods with all the sounds and animals out there. She asks him questions and he answers them. Hearing that would of made a lot of people lose hope. She was face to face with a bear and she threw her Walkman at it right when a hunter shot it in the leg, the hunter rescued her and left her at the hospital. She heard on the radio that the search was now focused on a guy who pranked called 911 saying that she was lying raped and dead in a garbage can in Maine.
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