Coach Lad Character Analysis

When a character is faced with a hardship, how they react and present themselves allows an audience to connect with the character and invest their feelings. The more they face the situation and make the best out of it, the stronger the connection with the reader is. Examples of this are Coach Lad and Coach Thomas. Both coaches were faced with extreme hardships in different ways, one was medically related and the other caused by disaster. They both used their faith and support from those around them to take charge of the situation at hand and make the best of it. Both Coach Lad and Coach Thomas and their families faced different situations but they both relied on their faith to get themselves and their community through it, together.
Coach Lad was very dedicated to his football team, just as much as his football team was dedicated to him. He had limited time with his family because of his dedication. Coach Lad had one biological son on the team but metaphorically speaking, the entire team was made of his children. He was a very quiet man but knew how to get his point across without using many words. Several people throughout the community used Coach Lad as an inspiration.
Coach Lad’s approach to coaching wasn’t exactly hands on. He pushed his team by doing exercises …show more content…
He absolutely loved his team, field, faith, and family. He invested every minute of the waken day to anything he loved. Coach Thomas’s approach to coaching was building the boys he was presented with at the start of each season and turning them into well rounded men by the end. In the process of molding the boys to men, he accumulated several wins throughout the season. Coach Thomas’s approach to life was just doing as he always has done without much change. This goes with his techniques he used on his field, the consistency of his practice of faith and religion, and the way he treats his family. He believes that hard work would really pay