Boxing is a challenged sport and involves aggressive with the fists. Also, boxing competition means two or more fights between the same fighters. In fact, boxing has agreements to outflow from the life of the investable debt, troubles, expulsion, ruthless organization, and prison. However, every boxer that entered to boxing career has a story to tell like Joe Louis and Mike Tyson. In the essays of “Champion of the World” by Maya Angelou and “Rape and the Boxing Ring” by Joyce Carol Oates tells about the struggles in the life of Joe Louis and Mike Tyson before they enter to boxing.
First, in the essay “Champion of the World” by Maya Angelou that tells the life of Joe Louis and his countrymen against the white American. In fact, Joe Louis represents …show more content…
In the essay “Champion of the World” by Maya Angelou states, “And now it looks like Joe is mad. He’s caught Carnera with a left hook to the head and a right to the head. It’s a left jab to the body and another left to the head. There’s a left cross and a right to the head. The contender’s right eye is bleeding, and he can’t seem to keep his block up. Louis is penetrating every block. The referee is moving in, but Louis sends a left to the body, and it’s an uppercut to the chin, and the contender is dropping. He’s on the canvas, ladies, and gentlemen” (202). And, in the essay “Rape and the Boxing Ring” by Joyce Carol Oates states, “In boxing circles it is said-this, with an affectionate sort of humor-that the heavyweight champion is the 300-pound gorilla who sits anywhere in the room he wants; and, presumably, takes any female he wants. Such a grandiose sense of entitlement, fueled by the insecurities and emotions of adolescence, can have disastrous consequences” (206). These two statements tell the same viewpoint of attaining the success of before and
First, in the essay “Champion of the World” by Maya Angelou that tells the life of Joe Louis and his countrymen against the white American. In fact, Joe Louis represents …show more content…
In the essay “Champion of the World” by Maya Angelou states, “And now it looks like Joe is mad. He’s caught Carnera with a left hook to the head and a right to the head. It’s a left jab to the body and another left to the head. There’s a left cross and a right to the head. The contender’s right eye is bleeding, and he can’t seem to keep his block up. Louis is penetrating every block. The referee is moving in, but Louis sends a left to the body, and it’s an uppercut to the chin, and the contender is dropping. He’s on the canvas, ladies, and gentlemen” (202). And, in the essay “Rape and the Boxing Ring” by Joyce Carol Oates states, “In boxing circles it is said-this, with an affectionate sort of humor-that the heavyweight champion is the 300-pound gorilla who sits anywhere in the room he wants; and, presumably, takes any female he wants. Such a grandiose sense of entitlement, fueled by the insecurities and emotions of adolescence, can have disastrous consequences” (206). These two statements tell the same viewpoint of attaining the success of before and