Greg Harris a 17 year old boy that has a special gift on playing
basketball. He has been recently changed of school and in his new school,
Latimer, the expected grades are higher than in his last school and he has lot
of troubles with math. His grades are quite low for the expectations and he
need to have better grades for playing basketball. They have prohibited him
playing basketball until he has better grades, when they told this to Greg his
world clashed down on him. He couldn't live without playing basketball, his
future dream was playing basket as an NBA professional player and with this
restriction and his dream have been destroyed. Greg reunited with one of his
friends and Mtisha that was one of his close friends and they chat about his
new school and of the problems he had, but as he go on, his grades are not his
only problems but Latimer school does not have a very high rate on sports
teams. So Greg wish has come down with all the problems this new school have
caused to him, he started thinking that he will never be an NBA player. Now
Greg need to promise that he would do the best he can so his grades will go up,
with this promise he could partially play and train in the school but he need
to show an improvement in math grades. One day he was called to the office of
the director of the school and Greg got afraid. We thought that something wrong
happened and once he enters the office he saw her mom and a man. They told him
that this would be his new tutor for math and that he needed this help so he could
play his favorite sport; Basketball.
One phrase
that the book had and that clears you the idea of the book, tells you about the
new school Greg is in. Latimers school isn’t quite what Greg was looking his
sports activity is in a very long way. In the newspaper it says "Latimers Arts Magnet School is facing
its fifth losing season in as many years."(45) When
Greg read this he was very disappointed, he´s idea of Latimer went down. He already
knew that his new school sports activity is not that high but with this notice,
his dream to become an NBA player. After that he talked very bad about his knew
school and he started missing his old school.
As far the book has gone we dont know uch about Greg personalitiy. We just know he is a fan of sports and that he have a "never gives up" personality, but other than that we have not see in the book. one quote that tells us how Greg is, is when he was talking with her friend Mtisha and he tell her; "I can teven get a light kiss?"(27) This little phrase tell us a lot about Greg personality, eventhough it does not tell us directly how he is we can infer how Greg personality is. No shy person could be able to say this "can you give me a kiss?" so we can see that Greg is not a shy guy and that he is a flirtatious. He flirted with her friend wich tell us he is a very social person that liked to flirt and hang out with friends
In conclusion the first part of the book has been quite
simple just an introduction of what is going to be about the entire book and
the personality of the main character. It presents the problems and in that
focuses most of these chapters. For the next chapters I predict that Greg is
going to have hard times with his new tutor and with the team. Basically with
all that includes his new school. Since he is in a revelry age he would be mad
with everything that he is asked and then he would be prohibited to play
basketball until he show improvement in grades and attitude.
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