Danger Zone
Setting: Granham High School, Minnesota, L.A., California, and Rome, Italy. The time is in the summer, in the present. Characters: Jimmy Doyle (Snowman), the main character, Coach Griffen, and Coach McNeil, the coaches of the team, Augustus, Shawn, Ray, and Stinger, all members of the team.Point of View: This story is told from the eyes of Jimmy Doyle, so this story is told from a first person point of view.Theme: I think that the theme of this story was that there are many disgusting problems out there in the wold (racism, death threats etc.), and the book was just telling us a little of what was out there with this story. The Main character was perfect for this role because he was from a rural town in Minnesota, and hadn't much knowledge about this sort of thing. Plot: This story was about a teenage high school student from rural Minnesota, who had a talent in playing basketball. One day after one of his games, two men approached him with an invitation to represent America in a wold wide high school basketball tournament in Rome Italy. They
He had helped his mom out in their small hardware store since his father died when he was a little boy. He didn't get along with Jimmy because he thought that Jimmy had taken his brothers spot on the team. Augustus was a big tall black kid, who was very good a basketball. They won the championship game, and Jimmy and Augustus worked out their problems. Augustus explained to Jimmy that he didn't much like white people because he felt that the white culture was what had given him such a bad childhood. One of the two men who had proposed this invitation to him went to his mother, and talked to her about it. Their next game would be a little harder to beat, the Germans. " He had said no because of his poor family. His mother, being very unselfish thought that he should go, and convinced him to. In their last game against Spain, there was 7 seconds left on the clock when the play started and they were only down by 2 points. Augustus felt that Jimmy had it way too easy growing up.
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