The theme for Boy21 is to do what's best for you and not for others. “I’m scared to leave my family. It’s hard for me to think of being anywhere but Bellmont. Then I remember the night I spent with Russ in the country, how there are better places” (Quick 244). From the very beginning, FInley has been doing what everyone has told him to do. He never questioned it, because he felt like he was doing the right thing by helping others. In the end, he gives up basketball because he knew it was more important to leave Bellmont and start a new life, even if it meant leaving everything he knew.
