Summary

     Jackie Robinson is a courageous, selfless, disciplined, and famous man. He may have been an African American (A.A.), but he was an amazing baseball player. Branch Rickey was a bossy man, he wanted to put an A.A on the white Brooklyn Dodgers. However, he had to tell the public that he was forming a new negro team, the Brown Dodgers, because white racists would be furious. A Dodgers scout, Clyde Sukeford, found Robinson and asked him if he wanted to join the "Brown Dodgers." Jackie accepts and later, Rickey tells Robinson the truth, that he is offered the job on the Dodgers. Despite that, Rickey was hard on him, he kept yelling at him what people might say when he's out on the field. He said that Jackie can't and shouldn't fight back, now Jackie is rethinking his choices. He asks him if he just wanted to find a A.A. ball-player who didn't have the guts and who is a coward to stand up for himself. Branch corrects him by telling him, "I'm looking for a ball-player with the guts not to fight back." Jackie takes the job and becomes number 42 for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Theme

     The conflict of The Kissing Hand is that Chester the raccoon doesn't want to go to school, but his mom tells him a family secret. Chester tells his mom this because he wants to stay home with his mom, but Mrs. Raccoon  tells him that "Sometimes we have to do things we don't want to do." Mrs. Raccoon reassures Chester that he will love school once he starts. He will make new friends, read new books, and etc. Chester was scared and frightened in the beginning of the book, but then Mrs. Raccoon tells Chester her very old family secret, which was when his mom kissed the palm of his left hand and tells him that momma will always love him, whenever he feels lonely and now  he feels relieved and loved. The theme is that sometimes we have to do things in life that we really don't feel like doing, but maybe you'll feel rewarded when you accomplish the task.