Would you be the bragger or the trash talker if you were the best? In the short story "Casey at the Bat" Casey is a very good baseball player, but his only problem is he knows it. He brags to his teammates and the other team about his talents. Then finally he steps up to the plate with runners in scoring position with two outs. It's either Casey is the hero, or Casey fails his team. As the first pitch went by Casey watches it as it's a strike. The next pitch went by as the umpire yelled "Strike two." Casey then had the fire in his eye, he was so mad he couldn't control his anger as the umpire yelled "Strike three."
In the story I noticed the Exposition of the story when there was a runner on first and third and Casey was up. It was then because that is when the characters were truly introduced and the problem was stated. The problem was they were losing and they needed to score. Not too long after that point the author wrote about the rising action. The rising action was when Casey stepped up to the plate. The rising action of a story is just when some good comes. When the hero makes a play or good has power over evil. It was when Casey came to the plate because Casey was one of the better players and they hoped he could save the day and win the ball game for them. That's when he was at the point where there was no return. Also known as the Climax. I noticed the Climax when Casey got frustrated and mad at himself. After strike two Casey got so mad he took himself out of the game mentally. He quit on his team which lost the game causing the falling action that happened right after and during the second pitch. I thought it was during the pitch as well because his mind set was so bad and his anger took himself out which started to go downhill very fast which is why it is the falling action.
