Outside Reading - Week 4, Post A

A Golfer's Life by Arnold Palmer

VOCAB
-Keystone Kops (126)- a team of comic policemen noted for their slapstick routines.
-gratuity (124)- a gift of money, over and above payment due for service, as to a waiter or bellhop; tip

APPEALS
1. "[...] the last thing I wanted to do was give him a percentage of my winnings as some kind of personal gratutiy." This is a logical appeal. It's appeal is curiosity, as a reader you want to know if Arnold will give Dutch Harrison a significant cut of the money for arranging the pro he was to play with in the pro-am.

2. "After all those weeks beating across America, Sam Snead's invitational tournament at The Greenbrier in West Virginia was just the tonic we needed, in more ways than one." This is a logical appeal. It introduces his day at the tournament, and the stroke of luck that follows it.

3. "Perhaps Lady Luck would be with us at San Francisco's famed Olympic Golf Club too." This is am emotional appeal because you want him to be lucky and continue on his lucky streak.

QUOTE
"Our old Ford needed rest, too-perhaps a permanent rest." I really liked this quote because it puts the genre of the book into perspective. It is a memoir and the hyphened additional thought shows that it is an additional thought in Arnold's head.

THEME
A theme that I am starting to see now is that life (like my golf game) has its ups and downs. In order to go up, you have to be down and in order to come down you have to be up.