Book: Billy Jones’s Father
Billy Jones's Father And The Apple Tree
Billy Jones’s Father is a true story written in contemporary fiction. The stories written within are testaments to the verbal, emotional and psychological abusive events which Billy Jones endured from his father, Scotty Jones, and people like him. They are validations of what millions of children have suffered for the past eighty years while playing organized sports. They are also reminders as to why so many of today’s youth struggle to find peace in their lives.
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An idiom is a word, group of words, or phrases with a figurative meaning that is not easily deduced from its literal definition. For example, the idiom “to get a cold shoulder” means to be treated unkindly or ignored.
American English is full of Popular Idioms in English.
Here are a few:
- “Bucket list” – A list of things you want to do before you die.
- “Get on someone’s nerves” – To annoy someone.
- “Go bananas” – To act crazy.
- “Hit the books” – To study hard.
- “On cloud nine” (when you’re very happy)
There are over 25,000 idioms in the English language, and they’re all pretty much impossible to keep track of.
Idioms are phrases that have a different meaning than their words. They’re often more difficult to understand because they can be unfamiliar or because the meaning of idioms changes over time.
The easiest way to understand idioms is to use them in context, so you get used to hearing and reading them. However, it would help if you also practiced using them yourself.
An idiom is a figure of speech that cannot be understood from the individual words themselves. For example, the phrase “keep your nose clean” is an idiom because it means to stay out of trouble. The individual words do not have any meaning by themselves, but when they are put together in this way, they form a new, meaningful phrase.
The term “idiom” is often used to refer to slang, but it’s not a slang word. Instead, an idiom is a phrase or saying with a meaning other than its words’ literal meaning, which cannot be understood by knowing just those words.
Idioms are interesting. They’re used so frequently that we don’t even think about how they enhance communication—we know that they do. But why?
Idioms are phrases that have a figurative meaning instead of a literal one. They’re incredibly efficient for communication because they allow us to say more with fewer words. Most idioms have multiple meanings, and many of those meanings are connected in some way or another.
A conversational idiom is a word or phrase with a different meaning than the literal meaning of its words. These idioms are used in everyday speech and writing, as well as in literature, movies, and other media.
Customer Reviews
This book says it all about youth sports and how it can affect the development and growth of a child's attitude toward sports and life in so many ways. As an elementary school secretary and mother of two sons who were very small for their age I understand how difficult and emotional it is to watch your child develop both physically and psychologically when other parents constantly remark about their small stature.
I will say that by the time I finished the book I was reflecting on my own parenting during that crucial time during their development as future adults. We didn't do a bad job but had plenty of room for improvement. I will recommend this book to parents who have children interested in any sports program.
This is an intelligent and eye opening novel about the trouble some young non-athletes or even star athletes go through. It also shows how childhood memories can influence us as adults. As written in the book "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree."
You will enjoy this book as well as many other books written by Fred Engh! Worth more than the minimal purchase price...just in life lessons. Well done Mr. Engh!!!
Easy read, I had no idea the craziness in youth sports. A real eye opener. I watched my boys be constantly compared when it came to sports, not right.
