Michael J. Mooney's The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever

The author Michael J. Mooney creates a dominant impression of the character Bill Fong by giving details regarding Mr. Fong’s “quirks” throughout the story The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever. Mooney refers to a few peculiar actions made by Fong. These acts include, taking notes when there is the slightest error, the character making adjustments to how he is bowling in the game, his approach while bowling, and how Fong refers to himself as “lucky” regarding a few incidences. In the story, the author states, “If you count all the bowling alleys all over America, [someone] somewhere bowls a 300 every night. But only a human robot can roll three 300s in a row.” Mooney later begins explaining to the audience that Mr. Fong, “…bowls in four active leagues and rolls at least twenty games a week.” When addressing the question that is being asked in the strategies and structures, “How does Mooney create a dominant impression of someone striving toward an elusive goal?” The author creates the first impression by giving slight details about the main character. Mooney describes Mr. Fong, “But Fong looks displeased. His strike wasn’t good enough……With a pencil, he jots down notes on a folded …show more content…
It states that while he was bowling with a group of friends he releases his ball it was close to the gutter which frightened him. His adversary’s think he is lucky due to a time he was rolling a perfect game. Fong had been on fire the night of the incident. People were claiming that, “they’ve never seen anything like it…back-to-back 300s.” Fong shook his head and responded with, “me neither”. At this time Fong was nearing the end of his perfect series. He began feeling as if he was, “slipping out of the zone”. Fong ends up knocking nine pins down and the tenth is still standing up. It became clear that Fong had a stroke which is why he missed his last pin. Resulting in a 899 out of 900 for the series he