Abuse Of Identity In Power Play By Eric Walters

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Power Play is a fictional novel written by Canadian author Eric Walters. The story takes place in Toronto, where Cody is playing hockey and will do anything to make it to the NHL. Cody is a good player so he gets noticed by a scout, the scout talks with his parents and Cody moves out of his house to go play for another team in another city, little does he know this choice that sounded like the next step to the NHL would turn into a nightmare. The scout took advantage of Cody, abused him, groomed and threatened to kill him if he ever told anyone what he had done to him. Cody doesn’t know what to do and just keeps it to himself and it gets worse and worse. It changed Cody mentally and physically, changing his identity while the coach was using his power in a bad way to abuse him. In the novel, people abuse power to ruin identities because coach Connors abuses Cody so much it changes him. This happens when the coach creates a fake file about Cody, abuses Cody, and Cody begins to drink because of it. …show more content…

Cody came to see Coach Connors in his apartment for a study session, but they got carried away and started talking about other players and looking at their files. Cody asked the coach “You don't have a file on me?” and the coach answered, “No for you I have two files.” “This one I hope somebody will show to the scouts who might draft you to the NHL.” “And this is the one I hope nobody will ever have to see.” (Page-157) Coach Connors used his power to create a dupe file of Cody saying that he looks at other boys in the shower, made the coach trade away a player and more. This made Cody look like a creep and a bad person, ruining his

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