Gary Smith is an excellent journalist; he details his topics to the bone. He understands a good story, is the one that leaves nothing out. The name of the Story is Gary Smith, and Sarah Perry wrote it. The story gives a brief synopsis of the man they call Gary Smith. The story starts out with him in an interview with Muhammad Ali, who is driving the car, but also falling asleep at the wheel. Then the story dives into Gary Smith’s life and the type of interviewing he did, all to relate back to Ali in the end.

I think this story is a blind lead, because they keep us wondering who the journalist is, and who is driving the car. “Was the world’s heavyweight boxing champion pulling a rope-a-dope on the world’s heavyweight sportswriter? Was he resisting the famous mind drill? Gary, for once, will never know.” I think this is the nut paragraph, because the whole story is based on Gary Smith’s ability to dive into his subjects, but we never really understand Gary Smith, neither did his wife. This was the one time that Gary Smith was unable to truly connect with his subjects, so I feel like it is the nut graph.

“You are 50 feet away, watching Agassi at the U.S. Open, then 2 feet away, flying in his private jet, then you are about to enter a forest … and get into Agassi’s mind.” This is my example of a descriptive copy because it describes the different aspects into journalism, how high profiled athletes think. He uses his mind, and philosophical thinking to dive into Agassi. But, it’s a descriptive copy, because he’s describing different times when you get into your subject.

There were 6 quotes from different people in this story. The boring part was the story about Jesup. I felt like it was definitely necessary, but it was boring to read because it didn’t have much meat to it. It was information that defined how Gary was able to settle his life down, and open up more. I like the ending, because it showed that Gary doesn’t always win. It was interesting; I didn’t see that side of the story at all. I never saw that coming. It ties directly into the beginning because it just drives from the start of the story. I got knowledge out of the story. I love the way the story is set up, and think writing stories like that are beneficial. I really liked the way the story flowed. It was very clean and crisp, and it was almost like we were on an adventure to learn more. There wasn’t really anything I didn’t like about this story.