Cameron F post #1

I am reading Game by Walter Dean Myers.  I am currently on about page 200.  Since the last time I posted, Drew has matured more and has given more effort in school than ever before. However, there was a really hard history exam that Drew bombed, so he has an F in history.  Drew wants to drop history and just play basketball during that time of school instead, but of course his parents don't let him.  Because Drew has an F, he is not allowed to play basketball for his team.  Drew has to then go in to the history class everyday and do extra credit worksheets after school just to make his grade go up.  Drew didn't like the history teacher, but the more he goes in after school, the more Drew likes the teacher when he tells stories about basketball.  Drew likes this of course because he loves playing basketball and wants to continue to play basketball through college. 

Right now, this book has its ups and downs, I don't like when the history teacher tells his stories, but other than that it is a pretty good book.  I think it will get better because eventually the history teacher will run out of stories.  Walter Myers wrote this book because he is personally from a bigger city, and bigger cities tend to have more people go out for basketball.  The theme of this book is living in a bad neighborhood, where there is a lot of crimes.  Another theme would be school work, because Drew talks about how his friend has a D and is barely passing in history.  The best character is Drew because even though he has a bad grade, he puts a lot of effort into trying to improve his grade.  An interesting quote from this book is from Iago, one of Drew's classmates and team mates when Iago said, "How come you spend more time with that old history teacher than you do your home boys down on the court?"  I find this interesting because you can tell Drew cares more about his grade than Iago does, and if Iago is failing one of his classes, then he should be worried about trying to get his grade up.  I wonder what Drew is actually feeling he should say to Iago about his grades.