In Shakespeare Bats Cleanup, our narrator is a young boy growing up without a mother. He a baseball player who gets stuck in bed because of case of the Mono. Being in bed for countless hours and being given a journal he decides to enbark in the wonderful world of poems. Although I'm not a huge fan of poems our author does a great job of pointing out what he is doing with each poem and relating them to life.
There are countless themes within this book. I think the strongest overall theme in this novel is the dealing with grief. Our narrator really goes into some deeper thinking about what is going on in his life and what he is doing with all of his free time. In the beginning of the novel, although I will admit it was a little slow going, he talks mostly about how much he is missing being on the baseball field. Our narrator is learning about himself and what he is doing with his life. He starts writing in his journal when about what he is going though with his mother just passing away, leaving his father and him a little lost. Kevin has to be strong, no only for himself but also for his father who seems to tag with him to multiple events.
With the theme in mind we discover why he begins to journal. He is given a journal when he first gets sick from his father. You get the feeling that his father secretly wants him to become a writer like him and maybe he also wants to become a writer like his dad. When someone is dealing with grief it is often hard for them to take care of things in there life that are important but we see Kevin's father take up different things for example yoga to fulfill his "whole". We know that Kevin truly misses his mom and maybe writing is helping him connected with his father like he never has. At the end of this novel we see him and his father, and a very special girl go to a poetry reading where Kevin may or may not read one of his poems; whether it's an old one he wrote or something new, I'm sure his father will be very proud of him.
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