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Exposition 1- backround
His father and Jeff work in a hospital and Jeff was a medic in Vietnam -
Exposition 2- setting
Matt came to America from Vietnam -
Exposition 3- characters
Jeff is a Vietnam Veteran that lives with Matt and his family, which include Matt his mom is dad and his little brother Tommy -
Rising Action-
Bill Alden picks on matt- He says “hey frog face where’d you learn to play baseball in a rice patty?” This shows Billy is going to be a problem later in the story. -
Rising Action 1
Conflict Matt goes to baseball practice- Him and his dad talk about how Matt should try out for baseball. Coach Robinson warms them up, and then he takes notes and games. -
Rising Action 2
Matt makes the team. he’s with 3 seventh graders and over 5 sixth graders. -
Rising action 4
Matt eavesdrops- He hears his parents talk about some thing suspicious the thinks there talking about sending him away. -
Rising action 5
Matts dad takes him to VV. VV's every thursday at the community were vietnam veterens meet up. -
Rising action 6
Matt meets chris at VV. Chris is a very wounded Veteran meet up. -
Rising action 7
They take coach robinson out to dinner because he hasnt been coaching for a while due to illness -
Climax
Coach robinson has cancer. He gave a speech about it at dinner and now has a replacement coach, -
Falling action
coachrobinson elected chris (coach williams) to be a replacement coach -
falling action 2
matt is teamed up with matt at practice with coach williams to do an exercise were they have to find different objects around the feild. -
falling action 3
Matt reflects on vietnam and Rob said "I hate you, my brother died because of you." -
falling action 5
Matts dad picks matt up from practice. The car ride is akward. Matts dad changes the station and looks at matt, not singing along to the music for once. -
Resolution 2
The team visits coach robinson in the hospital. They give him a baseball with the whole team signed on. -
Resolution 3
Matt and Rob are friends and Coach Robinson has recovered. And matt believes he will find his other brother on day, The story resolves.
