How To Self Conflict In H. G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights

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In the story Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, a football team in Odessa Texas is held up to a standard of being basically kings in their town. The high school kids are judged on if they are able to win football games or not. The community makes it hard to fail and if they do then the players feel the struggle of their failure. In this journal I will be evaluating self to self, self to community and conflict of self to friend/teammate.
In my first paragraph I will be evaluating self to self-conflict and the character of Boobie Miles and his injury. Boobie Miles in the begging of the book is set to lead the team to a state championship game. There is lots of pressure and demand for success that has been put on Boobie by others and himself. But early in the season he is forced out of the season do to a knee injury. Boobie lead the team in all running statistics his junior year when Permian won a state tittle. …show more content…

Even though the Permian Panthers had won a state championship the community wasn’t fond of black people. They wanted a state title but not all the recognition to go to Boobie Miles because he was a black running back. “He responded without the slightest hesitation. ‘ A big ol’ dumb nigger.” (Bissinger, 49) There are multiple accounts of harsh and unneeded racism thought the book. “ They started chanting something. Some said it was ‘Oreo Oreo!” The expectations of how the season will go is a huge conflict in Friday Night Lights. Two weeks before the season starts there is a watermelon feed for the players and families to come support. People would come to the Watermelon Feed with their children as if they feel it’s important for the little ones to see this spectacle at a young age and be awed by it. Even though people struggled financial and economic hardships, the lights of a Friday night game ignite their hopes and dreams of a better

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