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        <title><![CDATA[The most obvious evidence about Mark's outsider status would lie in the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The most obvious evidence about Mark's outsider status would lie in the fact that he is unaware of the games that are played on it.  Mark examines elements in terms of right or wrong, profit or debt, and true or false.  Such dichotomy refuses to acknowledge the role of emotions, belief, or faith in allowing different modes of reality to come into existence.  The fact that Mark and his partner want to buy out the farms and implement computer...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What textual evidence supports the fact that Mark was an intruder and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What textual evidence supports the fact that Mark was an intruder and can not see or understand the field?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:08:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[While Ray is the dreamer who would plow under his most profitable crop...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[While Ray is the dreamer who would plow under his most profitable crop in order to pursue a vision, Mark is the cold and calculating force of reality.  Mark is driven by profit.  His response to Ray's dreams is that the land is worth much more from a monetary point of view than the pursuit of one's dream.  This helps bring out his existence from the "cold real world."  At the same time, he does bear an aspect of being an intruder for he...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:43:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How are Mark and Abner Bluetein "intruders from the cold real world"?...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How are Mark and Abner Bluetein "intruders from the cold real world"? Explain with 3 or more points.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:12:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Where is the voice come from, is the voice internal- means it comes from...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/shoeless-joe/q-and-a/where-voice-come-from-voice-internal-means-comes-113977</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Where is the voice come from, is the voice internal- means it comes from Ray, or is it external - a real voice.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:25:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Kinsella's assertion of Shoeless Joe being a symbol of the oppressive...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Kinsella's assertion of Shoeless Joe being a symbol of the oppressive nature of power can come from how his professional life evolved.  On the field, Shoeless Joe was a marvel at both his craft from offensive and defensive ends.  A talent beyond measure, he was used by the owners to advance both the game and their own material greed.  This would represent a type of legitimate power structure that exercised their power over the powerless. ...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:02:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Explain what the auther means by, "Shoeless joe became a symbol of the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Explain what the auther means by, "Shoeless joe became a symbol of the tyranny of the powerful over the powerless."]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:32:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What was different about the time frame when Ray meets Moonlight Graham?...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What was different about the time frame when Ray meets Moonlight Graham? Why does M.G end up in Chisolm, Minn.?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:55:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dr. Graham's life represents how some dreams do not materialize and yet...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Dr. Graham's life represents how some dreams do not materialize and yet remain a distinct part of who we are.  By all accounts, Doc Graham is loved in his community as the town doctor who was able to help all and represent a source of happiness.  Certainly, we do not get the impression that Doc Graham is unhappy, for he has carved out a niche in life that benefits him and others around him.  However, Doc Graham still has a part in him that...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 5 Aug 2009 05:18:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Shoeless Joe", what is the difference between dreams and reality in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Shoeless Joe", what is the difference between dreams and reality in Dr. Graham's life?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 5 Aug 2009 00:44:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ray's experience with meeting the older Doctor Graham builds the magical...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ray's experience with meeting the older Doctor Graham builds the magical element that had been present throughout the novel.  It is magical because it reconfigures time.  When Ray meets Doc Graham, he is meeting and talking with someone who is dead.  Ray has essentially broken the time- space continuum in meeting Moonlight Graham, and he has done so because of baseball.  The magic of the game allows individuals of different backgrounds,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:32:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Doc Graham's role in the novel might be to display that while happiness...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Doc Graham's role in the novel might be to display that while happiness and a contented life is possible, there might be a few wishes and hopes that still have a hold on us as human beings.  Dr. Graham was beloved in Chisolm, and, by all accounts, has led a happy life as the town doctor.  The town respected him and he understood with his quirks and all that his purpose was to be in the town, his calling identified.  However, this does not...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:25:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[At first, there is a natural level of distrust that Salinger feels...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[At first, there is a natural level of distrust that Salinger feels towards Ray.  He goes along with Ray because he senses that Ray holds a genuine and authentic belief in his quest, and because a game at Fenway Park is its own reward!  They both experience the voice, the magic, yet they don't speak to one another originally about it.  This might be because they both feel that they are in the presence of something very awe- inspiring.  The...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:14:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When Ray first meets Dr.Graham, he finds him walking down the street at...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When Ray first meets Dr.Graham, he finds him walking down the street at night.  What do you think is happening?What sort of magic has just happened?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 3 Aug 2009 23:41:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dr. Graham tells Ray, "If I had only had a game."...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Dr. Graham tells Ray, "If I had only had a game." What is the author saying about dreams and wishes?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 3 Aug 2009 23:35:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[in "Shoeless Joe", Salinger and Ray don't tell each other that they have...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[in "Shoeless Joe", Salinger and Ray don't tell each other that they have heard the voice. Why they don't talk about it to each other?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 3 Aug 2009 23:33:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I would assert that the thematic link present is that reality is largely...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I would assert that the thematic link present is that reality is largely defined by the ability to see what can be as opposed to what is.  The driving force in the novel is Ray's desire to transform his reality through imagining what can be as opposed to what is.  Mowing down his crops to spend three years in building the field represents a sense of imagination that allows him to transform his reality.  In an almost dream like pursuit of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:55:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think the primary focus here would be Ray and his father.  The love...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think the primary focus here would be Ray and his father.  The love of baseball passed on from the father to the son, embodied by the former and instilled in the latter.  Ray's path as an adult is influenced by the love of baseball and in what his father imparted within him.  The dreams of Johnny playing the game he loves is represented by Ray's dream of building and sustaining the baseball field.  While it is not openly suggested in the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:45:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ray's brother-in-law, Mark, is a professor at the University of Iowa,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ray's brother-in-law, Mark, is a professor at the University of Iowa, specializing in all aspects of the corn weevil situation.  His business partner is a guy named Bluestein, and together they own quite a lot of property, both apartments and farmland.  Mark desperately wants to buy Ray's farm, and for awhile, it looks like he may be able to get it done; over the three baseball seasons it takes Ray to building the baseball field, his...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:25:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Moonlight Graham's obituary reflects the story of an athlete who has a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Moonlight Graham's obituary reflects the story of an athlete who has a pure love of the game and does not experience the glory of the game.  Shoeless Joe Jackson possessed natural talent in the game and received the praise and glory of the game for it.  Simply put, he is a legend.  Yet, for every Shoeless Joe there are numerous players who love the game, but for whom the dream simply does not materialize.  Moonlight Graham loved the game,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:13:06 PST</pubDate>
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