Game Post #2

I am reading Game by Walter Dean Myers. I am on chapter 4 (30 page chapters).  It is now basketball season and Drew is starting his high school team as forward.  In his first game, Drew's team won by 12.  Drew scored 15 points and was one of the main reasons that his team won.  He also has been hearing about more gang shootings near his street and he is starting to get nervous.  He doesn't let this ruin his basketball career thankfully, because he is basically the all-star of his team.  Also Drew's grade in English is bad and he has to try to work it up, he doesn't like English at all, but he wants to continue to play basketball.

I think that this book is very good because I like basketball a lot.  The author wrote this because he wanted to have Drew go through a rite of passage.  Walter Dean  Myers made Drew have bad grades because he wanted to have Drew mature a little bit, or basically show that Drew is better than that.  The main theme is Manhattan gangs, they always seem to be on the news and the shootings occur close to the street that Drew lives on.  I think that Drew is still the best character because he continues to persevere, even though his English grade isn't very good.  "The reason that Puerto Rican girls are the best looking is that we got the best mixture" --Ricky.  The reason that I think this is because I think it just shows you what type of personalities Drew's friends have.  I have no questions about my book.