Last Shot John Finstein Analysis

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When I turned 11, I opened a present in the shape of a video game box, and I was shocked to reveal a book titled“Last Shot” by John Feinstein. I was confused as why my mom would get me a book about basketball when I had absolutely no interest about the sport. Eventually, my mom kept bugging me to read this book, saying, ”you can’t judge a book by its cover!” Reluctantly one night I cracked open the book and began reading. I soon realized the book dealt with basketball, but in an interesting way--the main character who was 14 years old had won a writing contest to become a sports writer at the NCAA Basketball tournament. I was hooked. I enjoyed following the main character throughout his journey at such a large and well known sporting event

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