The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Essays (1284 words) -

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 news flash about her, starting to cry she turned off her Walkman. 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. She did get used to the water and berries so she ate them often. She was starting to hallucinate so she heard voices telling her she was going to die and that there was something watching her, also she saw a wasp king after being stung by wasps when she fell down the hill. After a week, she could barley walk and the search party was now focused on a prank call saying she had been raped and dumped in Maine. Suddenly she found a road and started to follow, it didn't lead to anything but an empty truck and an old c ottage. 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. (He could not be known because he was breaking the law of hunting in the offseason) In the end she was reunited with her parents after nine days in the woods, she had phenomena in both lungs and she would be fine. Why I Chose Book? The reason I chose this book is because I thought it was going to be a baseball book by the title The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. 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. Also, I chose this book because the minimum page requirement is 180 pages and this was 220 so wasn't going to read a 300-page novel. Reaction To Something I Read The 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 asks him questions and he answers them. Also, she talks to her friend Pepsi and thinks of her sayings. She sees things like the wasp man with a head of wasps and then he talks he spits wasps at her. I think this is a good description by Stephen King of what it would be like to be alone in the woods with no sign of human life for nine days. Is The Title A Good One? I don't think the title The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a good title because sports fans automatically think it will be about sports. The title is the way it is