Ryan Join A Tennis Classroom Short Story

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This story has a kid named Ryan join a tennis class with people who speak Russian. Ryan is passive because when he goes to a tennis class the instructor and the students all spoke Russian in their class. In the story it said that “for five weeks Ryan tried to make it look like he understood the class when they spoke to him in Russian.” (pg.27)The more Ryan tried to understand what they were saying, the more confused he got. The story says “Vera elbowed me and said to me what sounded like a question. So I slowly nodded and which it seemed to please her.”(pg.25) Being passive works against Ryan by making him confused when his class spoke in Russian. For five weeks without the class recognizing that he was confused about what they were saying