Comparing Ray Kinsella to John Baptist

CJ Dandeneau

Mr. Daly

Period B

March 10, 2014

Ray Kinsella, Terrence Mann, and Moonlight Graham all are great people with a passion for the game of baseball. All of their vocations surprisingly do not really have much to do with the game that they love. Ray is always trying to please people and make sure that everyone he cares about is happy. Terrence Mann just has a passion for the game and his vocation is to be a writer. Thirdly, Moonlight Graham’s vocation was to forget about his baseball career and become a doctor. Inside, he just felt like that is what he should be doing with his life so that is what he chose to do with it. Ray’s journey and John Baptist’s journey are comparable because they both involve a great deal of faith and courage. They both lived somewhat challenging but very rewarding lives.

Ray Kinsella’s vocation is being a great father and making the people that he cares about happy. He took a leap of faith when he decided to follow a voice that he heard in his head one day while he was out in his corn field. He decided to waste all of the corn fields he had for food so that he could do what some foolish voice in his head told him to do. Not many people that I know would be able to do that. There was a calling that he knew he needed to follow because deep down inside he knew that was the right thing to do. If Ray was not compassionate for the game of baseball there is no way that he would have done what he did. In the long run, he was able to meet Shoeless Joe Jackson and ultimately, his father.

Terrence Mann just loved the game of baseball and he always knew that his vocation was to be a writer so he could write for the newspaper about baseball. Ray went and kidnapped Terrence so that he could bring him back to his field to show him all the players that had showed up to play on the field that he built. Mr. Mann could not believe what he was seeing. At the end of the movie he said that he was going to write a book about...