Boys In The Bus Summary

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In the ending of Boys on the Bus the dad talks to his son Noah about his feelings about going to the game and he thinks that is not really terrible or disrespectful because fans were enjoying the game and enjoy coming together and showed the cared to their kids, their families and their country.
Baumeister wrote an article named “The Self and Society: Changes, Problems, and Opportunities” about the individual self and the society react and respond to universal experiences. Baumeister writes about culture constructs the individual, in the story Boys in the Bus there was a scene where the lights of the whole stadium turns off and Noah stares up and sees a plane and tells his did if its a terrorist attack and people started to leave the stadium

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