Game Post #1

I am reading the book Game by Walter Dean Myers.  I have finished reading chapters 1 and 2 (almost 30 pages is a chapter).  Game is a book about a teenage boy named Drew. Drew plays basketball at a ghetto, city  based high school in Harlem, New York.  You can tell he is from a city based high school, because he watches the news sometimes and he always hears about shootouts and stabbings on a street close to his.  Drew's mom doesn't like that there are a lot of shootings, and she usually cries when she hears about them.  She cries because she knows that the kids that are in the shootings, and the others that get stabbed, have families and brothers and sisters of their own.

When it comes to basketball season, Drew is very excited.  He wants to at least go to a division one college, and later the NBA.  Drew knows that he is one of the better players on his high school team, so he knows he will start.  On the first practice, there are two new white kids.  A lot of the players back-talk them because they aren't used to seeing white people try out for basketball.  Drew's team isn't worried at all about the new kids because they think that they're all better than them.

I think that this book is good, mainly because I can kind of relate to Drew.  I can relate to Drew because at my old school, people basically had to try out for the team, instead of everyone who tries out automatically makes the team.  Also I can relate because Drew and I are both city boys who come from bigger schools.  I think Walter Dean Myers wrote this mainly because he writes a lot of other sports books.  He has a lot of knowledge when it comes to basketball, which is what I enjoy playing.  I think Walter Dean Myers was trying to make the point that just because if someone isn't wealthy, or from a good neighborhood like Drew, that doesn't mean that that person can't be good at anything, mainly sports.  The best character is Drew.  Drew is the only character that you get to know very good in this book so far.  Drew is the best character because he is very tough, and he also is one of the only kids from his neighborhood that isn't in a gang or does drugs.  "What's happening with the youth of America?  Well, if you're talking about the young people from our inner cities, the picture is far from pretty.  Today two high school boys were involved in a vicious robbery and shoot-out in New York's Harlem community." -News reporter.  This is important because there is a lot of crimes in Harlem, and the way the news reporter describes the scene as, "a vicious robbery" makes it more dramatic.  It says that Drew goes to a big school in Harlem, so my only question is: How many people go to his school?