The author unfolds the events as a flashback, where the story starts with a memory and goes back into chronological order, and that’s also how the author tells how the story is introduced and developed. The author starts the story with how the unfortunate accident between Rudy Tomjanovich and Kermit Washington during a Lakers against Rockets game. The story tells about how the accident affected Rudy and Kermit and how their lives were changed after the incident. It start out by introducing the characters background and how they entered the NBA and the events that lead toward the incident.
Rudy was introduced as a white boy living in Hamtramck, Michigan. He was a decent basketball player growing up and excelled towards his high school career when he received help from his coaches and ended up being one of the star players on his team, He played so well that he received a scholarship from the University of Michigan and got drafted into the NBA by the Rocket’s second overall pick in the draft.
Kermit was introduced a black boy growing up in Washington D.C. Although never played basketball until his high school years and wasn’t worried about school, he improved all of that when was later dedicated by his brother and coaches. He tried out for the basketball team and was cut in his freshman year. He was dedicated to a sport because of his brother, who achieved the best grades and played football as a star received scholarships from all schools, and took the Harvard scholarship due to his education. He had the dedication that his coach eventually let him on the team after continuous begging. He later tried at a camp and was noticed by the coaches by his speed and his hard-working ethics that every coach looked for. Kermit attended Ame...
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...ow they try severely hard to forget that moment, either by drinking constantly or intense work, but the media always have a way to bring it all back to their lives. It also talks about how the author interviewed both of them in the same room and both find it extremely painful to begin speaking about the events again.
The book is in a flashback state because it talks briefly about an event, then goes into their childhood up to the point of the accident, and then the events after the accident. Both had a good life up until the accident and their lives were changed forever. Both were very good people who just did something that they didn’t think more clearly through about. That event also changed the NBA forever by putting more strict rules. That book was about two immensely powerful people who were matched in a battle and forever changed the lives of two innocent men.
One of the big parts in this book in when he makes the team. When tryouts came he was not look on that well mainly because he was black and he had an atitude. He played the coach one on one and he slammed on him and blocked him. But he did make the team. Then he lost the camera that he borrowed from the media center for a project. In his first game he didn't start and didn't play in the first half. He got really mad a Goldy calmed him down. They were tied at half time and at the end they beat them by 11. And that is how many points that Slam had in the game after the first half. He went out with his friend Ice and two other girls and he made out with one of them. The other girl told his girlfriend that they were kissing and she got all mad and the sort of broke up. Then he played one of the best teams in the league and this white guy tore him up so that got his confidence down. After that his friend Ducky was standing up for Slam because two of the other kids on the team didn't like Slam and the ended up getting in a fight. They never got along because Nick the guy that he fought was talking about how he was getting scouted and that Slam wasn't. Slam knew that he was better that him that he was not getting the chances that Nick was.
Born on December 7, 1956 in West Baden, Indiana, Larry Bird was raised in French Link, Indiana, he went to Springs Valley High School, and he also attended and played basketball for Indiana, and Indiana State University. Growing up Larry's family always struggled financially so Georgia and Joe Bird would often send their son Larry to live with his grandparents. In 1975 after Larry's parents had divorced his father Joe Bird committed suicide due to alcoholism and personal difficulties. Despite everything he had been through by the time he was a sophomore in high school Larry had become one of the best players in French Link.
The scenes, which cover thirty years of the characters’ lives from eight to thirty-eight, each revolve around an injury that Doug has acquired through his accident prone life. The play progresses in five year intervals, jumping backwards and forwards, in a nonlinear progression. As they travel and run into each other’s lives, the two characters face new injuries. As the play progresses every five years, a new injury is added to one or both characters. Their lives intersect through these injuries, leading them to compare their wounds, both physical (Doug) and emotional (Kayleen), and drawing them closer together. With each new scene, old injuries and problems may have gotten better or resolved, but some became permanent. Yet, through these experiences, they are bonded together through bloodstains, cuts, and bandages.
In sports, there is no shortage of black success stories. Meanwhile, two black men of prominence in Odessa (who are not athletes) fell from grace. Willie Hammond Jr. (the first black city councilor and county commissioner) and Laurence Hurd (a minister and desegregation supporter) were glimmers of hope for the black community that were both snuffed out. Hammond was arrested on charges of arson conspiracy and perjury and Hurd is in prison for burglary and robbery, leaving a hole in the morale of the black community that was not repaired. These losses, combined the with negative news of black people circulated via media, made the possibility of succeeding in a white man’s world inconceivable. Yet, there is no shortage of black success stories in sports, like Michael Jordan and Bo Jackson; in every area that is not a “rich man’s sport”, black athletes dominate. To the poor children on the Southside, there is something very alluring about the “Cinderella stories” of men from poor black neighborhoods rising to prominence through sports. Based on these examples, there seem to only be two paths for a black teen to take: criminal or athlete. Many of these teens aspire to be sports stars and depend on nothing else because there is nothing else. Some may become the superstars they hope to be or they fall into ruin as Boobie Miles, Derric Evans, and Gary Edwards
An example of a flashback, taken from another article written on Weebly, is in the first few chapters of the book when Susie thinks back to her relationship with Ray. With the help of the flashback, the reader is able to see the relationship between the two and its relevance to Susie's present life after death. Ray was listed as a suspect to Susie's murder because the police found a love note of his in her notebook. However, at that moment, she travels back into her memories to when she first spent time alone with Ray, skipping class in the auditorium (Structure, Culture & Point of View). She knew he was a kind boy whose only crime was harboring an innocent crush on her, much like how she held the same kind of feelings for him. She saw him sitting above the stage on the scaffold, and when they made eye contact, she asked him what he was doing up there. Ray replied, ¨Climb up and see,¨ and so she did (Sebold 75). She recalls sitting next to him chatting, and next thing she knew, he was leaning in to kiss her. She described the moment stating, ¨His lips moved closer, the scaffold listed. I was dizzy --- about to go under the wave of my first kiss when we both heard something. We froze.¨ (Sebold 75). With that, the story progresses to how
First, let me start off with the career of Kobe Bean Bryant who is currently on the Los Angeles Lakers. Kobe was first drafted into the NBA in the year 1996 by the Charlotte Hornets, but was later traded to the Los Angeles Lakers. The most amazing part about him being drafted was that
Can you imagine embarrassing the infamous Adolf Hitler in front of the whole world? Jesse Owens did that in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It was not an easy road for him to get there, but he did it by putting enough effort and hard work forward. Jesse Owens was able to overcome racial judgment by surviving a poverty struck childhood, training hard in school, and by winning the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Wilt Norman Chamberlain was born on August 21, 1936 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. His family was a working class family with nine children and parents who loved and worked extremely hard to attain a happy childhood for their children. As a child growing up, Wilt was not always enticed to play basketball. He grew up participating in track and field during his school days. However due to his immense size and height and the culture of basketball in Philadelphia, he started to play basketball. At the height of six feet 11 inches by high school, Wilt had an immediate impact on any team he played for (“Wilt Chamberlain” 1). Wilt attracted interest from basketball scouts by the time he was in junior high. Duri...
He started his official football career at Ringgold High School where he stunned the coaches and became starting quarterback during his junior year and he was also phenomenal at basketball and he was so skilled at basketball that he got a scholarship to North Carolina. At the time that he got the scholarship to North Carolina was when Michael Jordan went to North Caroli...
As I read the novel, I couldn’t help but to compare each word to the movie. I may have just recently watched it, but I was suddenly unsure of what I had seen. Was my memory failing me or were things truly that different? I felt like these differences changed the entire story line. The narrator shouldn’t be in a building that was about to be destroyed, this defeated the purpose of Project Mayhem. Then again, I was only on page one.
...eaven for many blacks as their performances proved they are no different from their white counterparts. Not only did they rally white troops from their athletic performances, they were able to do so from their voices and personal life. They began to voice their displeasure through various media outlets. Their public outcry to end social injustice and race based discrimination came started to become a popular topic of discussion all over the country. They took a stand and were rewarded for their actions as race based discrimination is abolished and blacks have the same status as whites. Black athletes are becoming more and more recognizable all over the world as some become the faces of their sports. Sports came as a form of entertainment for many, but for black athletes it ended up being the most treasured source to reconstructing their race’s lives in America.
Rudy, a small town Hawaiian local boy, made it big in his life because he became very successful and happy in life coming out of a hard-to-live neighborhood. Rudy went from being a slacker to becoming one of the finest doctors there are. Rudy had some very satirical moments in his life, but it all led up to him becoming the great man he is today. We know that he came from a small, rough town because he says, in the Foreword, that, “...the Kahaluu I grew up in had it’s share of poverty and all the garbage that comes with it.” Furthermore, we can also identify how Rudy feels at the end of the story. On page 175 Rudy says, “Sometimes it’s good to be different.” In this saying we can feel how Rudy feels, happy and he is finally
The scholars expounds that Black athletes were commodities on the playing field to help win games and bring in revenue to their respected schools. However, the schools were just as eager and willing to leave their Black players behind and dishonoring the player as a part of the team. Therefore, not compromising the team’s winning and bring in profits for the school. Sadly, Black athletes at predominately White institutions (PWIs) who believed that they were bettering the live of themselves and their families members by going to college and playing collegiate sports to increase their post secondary careers. However, these athletes were only “show ponies” for their schools. Unfortunately, Black athletes had allegiance to their school; however, the school turned their backs on the athletes to protect the profit and notoriety of the school and the programs. Money and respect from White fans and spectators were more important to the PWIs than standing up for the respect of their Black players. Racial bigotry in sports was rampant and it was only going to get worse.
Analysis of Fight by John Steinbeck We analyzed the first section of the Flight by John Steinbeck. There
... all his emotions on the court in high school. He was so talented and did the best he can in basketball that he later Indiana State. He pursued his career in basketball and at age 22 he was drafted by the NBA to the Boston Celtics. His career in basketball didn’t end in 1992 when he left the Boston Celtics. He later coached the Indiana Pacers for nearly 4 years. His life was mainly about basketball in which he would seek basketball to get away from all the problems in his life. Larry Bird won so many awards some including NBA Champion which he won 3 times, John R. Wooden award, and so much more. Larry Bird let kids know that if they have something in mind don’t let anything stop you from doing what is right.