Fever Pitch Entry # 1

5 Things I understand:

1. The Narrator is English (From England)
2. The Narrator has a strong passion for soccer
3. The story speaks in first person a lot
4. The Narrator speaks about his personality a lot
5. He can talk about soccer all day

4 Questions I have:

1. Why is almost the whole beginning of the book describing how he is?
2. How old is he?
3. He spoke about his father in the beginning, does he have any children himself?
4. Does he have a passion for any other sport like he does for soccer?

3 Words:

1. Tetchy: (adj) irritable; touchy
2. Traipsing: (v) to walk over; tramp
3. Fractious: (adj) readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome

2 literary elements:

1. Metaphor: "I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women" - pg. 7
2. Metaphor: "The long beach and the sea were their lawn; the blanket their home; the ice chest and thermos their kitchen." - pg 10

1 Summary sentence:

1. The entire first part of the story pretty much described who he is and what his personality is like.