Jock Culture Article Summary

In this article Robert Lipsyte talks about how a coach named Bill Stowe told him how there are two different kinds of men. That there are the jocks and there are the pukes. The jocks are the manlier men and the pukes are the softer men. Lipsyte then says how he thought that Stowe had misguided values of Jock Culture. Later he actually thinks that Stowe might have been right all along about how the world may be divided into jocks and pukes. Lipsyte says how “Jock Culture is a distortion of sports” and he also says “it can be Physically and mentally unhealthy”; how it is driving people away from each other rather than closer to each other and how we basically push our kids into Jock Culture. Then later he describes how Jock Culture relates to everyone and their careers and that it is not just based on athletes. A good feature of writing in Robert Lipsytes article was that in every paragraph he wrote it stuck to one subject. Instead of starting a paragraph with one subject and then ending it on a completely different subject. Lipsyte stuck with what he started off with and ended with the same thing, so it gives the …show more content…
He gives facts, examples, and reasons for certain things that he talks about. For example, when he talks about how adults put their kids in sports and he says how it was once a safe to have kids learn about bravery, cooperation, and respect and now it’s all about bullying and violence. He then gives an example about peewee football. This gives the readers more details on the point he is trying to get across when he says how much sports have changed. Another example is when Lipsyte talks about Jock Culture he gives examples, facts and he describes what it is and why it is important. It is important to have the feature because it allows the writer to develop their ideas fully. It also helps the readers process and understand what the writer is saying