Sundra The Game Story

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In the story “The Game” Sundra is a girl who is experiencing a new culture, the author wants the readers to understand how Sundra feels and how she changes over the time at the game.Sundra is watching a football game but she doesn’t know what exactly is going on she just sees boys running into each other,yelling,and girls cheering.Sundra never saw the ball but she knew it was there.Sandra was experiencing a new culture and she had seen a football game on tv but actually being there didn’t make it much clearer for her.Sundra didn’t understand why football players were so popular or why people loved them. Because Sundra didn’t understand the game she knew that it was more that she needed to learn to be able to get excited about the game

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