Kiley

3 years ago

In life it is difficult to accomplish anything if you don't believe in yourself and give up. In the book “The Marble Champ''by Gary Soto Lupe is a very smart person but not in the least bit athletic but ended up winning 2 championships if you want to find out how keep reading. The book ”The Marble Champ” teaches to never give up & believe in yourself because Lupe is not athletic,Lupe practices & she won twice. So next time you find yourself in a tough situation remember never give up & believe in yourself so go be a champ. One reason the book “The Marble Champ” teaches to never give up and believe in yourself is, Lupe was not athletic. For example at the beginning of the book on paragraph 2 on page 1 it said “though Lupe had a razor sharp mind she could not make her body no matter how hard she tried to run as fast as the other girls. She begged her body to move faster but could never beat anyone in the 40 yard dash”. This shows that Lupe was not very athletic. Another reason the book “The Marble Champ” teaches to never give up and believe in yourself is, Lupe practices. For example in the middle of the book Lupe disieds to start playing a sport called marble racing on page 2 paragraph 2 it said “to strengthen her wrists she decided to do twenty push ups on her fingertips”. Also on page 2 paragraph 3 it said “she squeezed a rubber eraser one hundred times.”this shows she practiced. This shows that Lupe practiced Another reason the book “The Marble Champ” teaches to never give up and believe in yourself is, she won twice. For example at the end of the book Lupe wins on page 6 paragraph 1 it said”Lupe did what she did best-win”. Also one more example is on page 6 paragraph 3 “and set the two trophies on the table”. This shows that Lupe won not once but twice. As you can see, the book “The Marble Champ” teaches to never give up & believe in yourself because Lupe is not athletic,Lupe practices & she won twice. So next time you find yourself in a tough situation remember never give up & believe in yourself so go be a champ.

broooklyn

3 years ago

In the book The Marble Champ Lupe learns to never give up even when things get hard. I know this because it said that she did some thumb push-ups and she was out of breath but she never gave up. She Kept on doing your thumb push-ups, when she had beat the neighbor kid that I happen to be very good at marbles. She was excited for herself and she thought “ I might be good enough for a tournament”,. She never gave up when she was practicing no matter how hard her thumb hurted or how hard it was hard to beat her brother or the neighbor kid she never gave up. And she never gave up when she saw that the girl in the baseball cap with a dead straight face on and Lupe said to her dad. “ I don't know Dad, she looks pretty tough.” but she did it and she won. My first reason that Lupe never gives up is when she is doing her thumb push-ups and she runs out of breath. She doesn't say oh well I give up on being The Marble Champ she keeps going. I know this because when she was in her room on a rainy day and she decided she wanted to be good at something besides school like a sport. So she decided to play marbles she took some marbles out of her dresser (her brothers old marbles) and started practicing she knew she wasn't going to be good unless she practiced so she practiced her marbles against her bedspread and then her legs and then she started putting them in her hand. That's when she found out she had to exercise her thumb for hitting the marble because you have to use your thumb to flick the marble. My second reason that Lupe never gives up is when she beats the neighbor kid and her brother at marbles. I know this because when Lupe was testing how good she was on her neighbor kid he said ” she can beat the other girls for sure I think” . So Lupe was good enough to go to the tournament. She didn't give up because she practiced and practiced to get better. I know it's because in the text it said “practice, practice, practice, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze she got better by doing some thumb push-ups and squeezing an eraser. An effect to her working hard was that she got a huge muscle in her thumb. Her mom even though her thumb was swollen but Lupe said '' it's a muscle”. My third reason that Lupe never gives up is when she was in the tournament and she saw the girl with the baseball cap and a dead serious face and she didn't know if she could beat her. I know this because when she was at the tournament and she was in the last competition because she beat all the other girls. She said to her dad “ I don't know Dad she looks pretty tough” and her friend Rachel said “Go get her”. (Rachel is one of the girls who competed against Lupe and Lupe asked her to join the team to cheer her on). In conclusion in the book The Marble Champ Lupe learns to never give up even when things get hard. I know this because it said that she did some thumb push-ups and she was out of breath but she never gave up she Kept on doing thumb push ups, when she had beat the neighbor kid that I happen to be very good at marbles.And she never gave up when she saw that the girl in the baseball cap with a dead straight face on and she said to her dad “ I don't know Dad she looks pretty tough.” but she did it and she won.

brown

3 years ago

The world is tough for some people like Lupe, a lot of the world likes sports. Lupe tries so hard but she is not any good at any sport until she finds out about marbles. In the book Marble Champ by Gary Soto Lupe is not good at sports she finds out about marbles on one rainy day. The text teaches that practice makes perfect. This goes for Lupe and everyone that is trying to do something you have to practice then you will be good. The reasons I had where she did push ups on her finger tips, squeezed a rubber eraser and she won the championship. One reason is she squeezed erasers. To support my reason, the main character is having a lot of trouble with sports that she can think of. That is until one rainy day she saw some marbles in her closet. She tried to roll the marble but she wasn't doing any good until she decided to work out. The text teaches practice makes perfect for example it said “ she squeezed a rubber eraser 100 times hoping to strengthen her thumb”. This shows that practice makes perfect one reason is she squeezed erasers. Another reason is she did push ups on her finger tips. For example in the middle of the story in the book marble champ Lupe is not good at sports but there is one sport she is good at and guess what it is MARBLES! That is the one sport that she is good at that is if you consider marbles a sport. This shows practice makes perfect one reason is she did “push ups on her finger tips”. The last reason is she won the championship. At the end of marble champ I saw my theory come true that practice makes perfect and my reason was right to go. She was in a hard match of marbles but it went out well for Lupe since she has been practicing really hard. See practice is the way to go . The text teaches practice makes perfect for example the text said ”she was the winner “I did it “ Lupe said under her breath”. The author used multiple points of view to show there are multiple people talking for example her father and her mom and herself. This shows the reader there are multiple points of view. This shows practice makes perfect for example “she won the championship”. As you can see the text teaches that practice makes perfect and the reasons where that she sqseed erasers 100 times she did push ups on her finger tips and she won the marble championship. Next time I do something I will practice so I can do it better like soccer. I will practice before I start so I can be the best I can . They can over grow not being good at something to be good by practicing you are not good if you don’t practice you are not the best in the world right away for example the best soccer player, he practiced every day every hour of the day just to be as good as he is and let me tell you, he is good when I say good I mean the best in the world.

thumsup

11 years ago

Short stories about Latinos and Latinas- involves comedy, sports, romance, and real all mixed together in one spectacular book. Enjoy!

melamialia6701

11 years ago

I love Baseball in April and it was very cool, it has multiple different stories and my opinion of the favorite one is "Barbie". It's very interesting and I loved it!!!! :)