Summary

The article The Noble Experiment is about Jackie Robinson and how he became a baseball player, and how he had to deal with discrimination.  In the story Charley Thomas was discriminated against a hotel, because he was colored.  He wanted to be white so that people could respect him more.  In the text it said, "If only they were white."  "Charley," Mr.Rickey said, "The day will come when they won't have to be white".  Branch Rickey was creating a Negro League.  And when he announced that he was creating a Negro League he made many people mad.  Mr. Ricky offered Jackie Robinson to join the Brooklyn Dodgers.  Mr.Rickey asked Jackie Robinson if he had the guts because there was racist people at games who did not like the idea of a black man on a white baseball team.  Branch Rickey said,"I'm looking for a ballplayer with the guts not to fight back."  So he is telling Jackie Robinson what he needs from him in order to be on the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Theme

The conflict of the book I Need My Monster was that the little boy was very picky and he needed a monster that would keep him in bed but the monster that was meant for him went fishing and his name was Gabe.  So the little boy couldn't sleep unless he had his monster.  Monsters came and went until Gabe came back.  The character reacted to this conflict by making the monsters leave if they didn't have what the little boy wanted.  What he wanted was a big and scary monster like Gabe with a big tail and long nails  if the monsters didn't have what he wanted then he made them leave. The theme of this story was sometimes its hard for people to change, like the boy he was used to his monster and he didn't want any other monster.