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The Mudville Nine Analysis
Mudville was down in the ditch losing the game. But, they had one secret weapon… or so they thaught. Casey their hero may not live up to the audience's expectations.

Lawrence Thayer uses many elements of storytelling to help reveal what is going to happen. One of these techniques is his use of foreshadowing to reveal what will happen to casey and the mudville nine. To start the name of the team is kind of icky. Would you really expect a team called the Mudville 9 to win anything? I know that I would not. To begin with the team was not doing well “The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day; The score stood four to two with but one inning more to play” From the start they don’t seem to stand a chance. From lines 18 - 19 when
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