A Humble Man The “Ex-Basketball Player” claims that there was this great basketball player named Flick Webb. Flick has an outstanding knack for basketball and for one reason or another he decided not to peruse it as a career. The narrator thinks that this is very strange since he could of gotten out of the town he lived in. Now Flick just helps out at Berth’s Garage and he does not seem to want anymore out of life then he already has. Flick seems not to be a very selfish man. He pumps gas and sometimes for fun he will dribble an inner tube.
This is telling us he still has a lot of passion for the game, and that he still wants this to be a part of his life. In the second stanza the narrator gives the pumps human characteristics. This is a big change from Flicks high school years when he hung out with other athletes, had fans in the stands, and “bucketed three hundred ninety points.” In the fourth stanza we see that at Mae’s luncheonette is now his stadium where he only acknowledges his fans with a simple nod. By this we can tell he is a very humble man and what ever comes of him and his life will suit him just fine. A lot of people probably feel the same as the author. I on the other hand feel totally opposite.
I was an outstanding athlete at my high school, and that was what people looked at me for. I know a lot of athletes who feel the same way I do, because there is more to us than what we can do on the field or court. I can also see how people who are not athletes see the situation in a whole different light. The narrator, looking at the situation from outside sees a man with a talent gone to waste. I see the situation in a whole different point of view. I see a man who is content with the way his life has turned out.
The Essay on Frederick Jone Man Emerson Life
e most Emersonian person that I have ever known would be with out a doubt be Frederick Jones. I spent two summers working with this man on the Linville River for the K awana fishing club. In Self Reliance Emerson writes Your genuine action will explain itself and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. This is clearly a call for individuality in men. Though ...
He did not need the screaming fans or the money to make him happy.
