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Comparing Kinsella's 'Shoeless Joe And Nostalgia'
Selena Martinez
Mrs. Lesosky
English II Pre-Ap-2
26 April 2013
Shoeless Joe and Nostalgia

Shoeless Joe Jackson was banned from baseball by Judge Landis and the fight to have him reinstated still rages on. W.P. Kinsella, author of New York Times Best Selling Novel, Shoeless Joe, expresses his feelings about a time in history when baseball was heart-pounding and thrilling to go and watch Joseph Jefferson Jackson play ball. In Kinsella’s heartwarming story he displays many types of rhetorical devices such as, nostalgia; a desire to return in thought or fact to a former time. Ray Kinsella, the main character was told, “If you build it, he will come” because of this voice inside, he sets out to build a baseball field in his corn field.
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