Playing For Pizza Essay

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In the book Playing for Pizza the story first took place in Cleveland where Rick Dockery was the starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns and then took place in Parma, Italy where he got hired to play quarterback after he got fired from the NFL because he blew a 17 point lead with 11 minutes to go against the Broncos in the AFC championship game. In Playing for Pizza the other uses various settings for the novel to be more realistic because they both are completely real places. In Playing for Pizza the author uses a lot of different settings to show the readers how life is in each country. For example in the novel it states “It was snowing and Rick was tired of Cleveland.” pg 11 Rick was tired of Cleveland because he was the most talked about person in professional sports for blowing a 17 point lead in less than 11 minutes in the AFC championship game. Furthermore he was tired of Cleveland because there was a lot of people who were trying to kill him while he was in the hospital. Another example from the novel is “They’re calling me to warn me not to call them. I’m...

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