I am currently reading, "Hoop Dreams", by Ben Joravsky. This book has important issues, that talks about young kids and there dreams. These issues are happening all over the world. This book is about a kid that had finished school and is focusing on his favorite sport, basketball. Lonnie has a second chance to play in the NCAA college basketball and finish college. He is facing many problems along the way and he has diffucult times. His biggest dream was to be apart of the NBA, and be rich. As you can see, many kids want to be apart of the NBA, but first they have to finish there education. This book talks about many kids always focusing on basketball and not on there education.
This book faces hard issues. When Lonnie decides that he is finished with high school and all he focuses on is basketball, he meets this gut named Cal. This guy changed his life. He helped him get back into college and play with the pros. Lonnie thought this guy was a joke until he found out that he was once apart of the NBA. Lonnie's big dream was being apart of the NBA. This book shows that of you dont get through education first you cant follow your future. Education was important especially to Lonnie because becoming an NBA player.
This issue is happening all around the world and not only for basketball. It is happenign to young kids that want big futures. Those kids have to learn that the first step to that future is your education. Because if you just focus on basketball and dont make it to the pros you need a back up. I found a statistic that says: The odds are 7,600 to 1 high school basketball player will reach the NBA. This is really big because those 7,599 other kids might not have a bacup for there future and who knows where they end up. So, this is why education is a really important issue in the world.
This book tells you about a lot what i have been talking about. Education is important, its a big step in life. Imagine your life without education, its almost impossible to succeed. Hoop Dreams is a really good book and it shows a really important lesson.
Really great summary! Your thesis statement was also very strong. The only thing I would suggest is to stretch out your conclusion- try adding a personal connection to the story and its issues
ReplyDeleteStrong thesis and intro!!!! Add connections to conclusion., This would aware us how important this is,
ReplyDeleteI think this was a great essay, and i like how you connected it to the real wold life. I think you could try using bigger words instead of repeating words like "bad" You should ask try to stretch out the conclusion, and you should experiment with different writing techniques. Great job!
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