The following is an excerpt from the short story "Feeling Good, Feeling Fine" by George Garret, A boy and a man in the park. Between them an old wooden bat, a battered and dirty baseball and one leather glove,
well tended and care for, oiled and supple, but old, too, its pocket as thin as paper.
The boy and the man are sweating in the late afternoon light. Lazy end of a long summer day. The park (no more than
a rough grass field, really) is empty now except for the two of them. Somewhere not far away a car horn toots, a dog
barks, a woman calls her children in for supper.
"Come on," the man shouts, "Knock it to me!"
The boy carefully, all concentration, tosses the ball up and swings the bat to loft it high above the man. Who, skinny
and raggedy as a scarecrow, moves gracefully back and away and underneath the high fly ball, Spears it deftly with
the glove. Then throws it high and easy back toward the boy. The ball rolls dead, an easy reach from his feet.
Using strategies that you learned from the lecture, locate and distinguish important details in the excerpt of the
short story, Then, using the important details, write a summary of the excerpt.