In Muck City by Bryan Mealer the theme is if one is willing to work hard, then they can achieve anything. Jonteria wants to become a doctor but in order to do so she must receive scholarships as she cannot pay for college tuitions herself. Jessie Hester, before becoming a head coach for the Raiders, was in the NFL struggling to catch the football under pressure. Mario wants to win a championship game for his deceased parents and earn an athletic scholarship to go to college. The theme of working hard to achieve anything is shown in the three characters Jonteria Williams, Jessie Hester, and Jamarious Rowley, “Mario.”
Jonteria Williams expresses the theme of working hard to achieve anything. Jonteria only at the age of seven declared she wanted …show more content…
Before becoming the coach for the Raiders, Jessie Hester became a first round pick for the L.A. Raiders in 1985. Hester is really good while not under pressure “But when the game was on the line and passing yardage crucial, Hester’s supple hands quickly turn into stone,” when Jessie was under pressure he could not catch the ball (145). Jessie was soon out of the league with having a tendency to drop the ball causing him to go home to Belle Glade. Wanting to come back into the NFL, Hester returned to Atlanta and spent weeks in heavy training. Jessie went into training “ In his short time in Atlanta, he’d worked with receivers coach named Jimmy Raye, who’d introduced a more fundamental approach,” allowing him to get back in the NFL with the Colts (150). With all of his hard work to get back in the NFL he “caught passes in sixty-two consecutive games, a franchise record,” Jessie came from dropping passes to not being able to stop catching the ball (152). Jessie Hester dropped passes in tight situations of a game but after hard work and training he went from dropping passes to breaking a franchise record because of his hard work. In addition to Jessie Hester expressing the theme of working hard to achieve anything, but also Jamarious Rowley, “Mario” shows this
Jonteria Williams expresses the theme of working hard to achieve anything. Jonteria only at the age of seven declared she wanted …show more content…
Before becoming the coach for the Raiders, Jessie Hester became a first round pick for the L.A. Raiders in 1985. Hester is really good while not under pressure “But when the game was on the line and passing yardage crucial, Hester’s supple hands quickly turn into stone,” when Jessie was under pressure he could not catch the ball (145). Jessie was soon out of the league with having a tendency to drop the ball causing him to go home to Belle Glade. Wanting to come back into the NFL, Hester returned to Atlanta and spent weeks in heavy training. Jessie went into training “ In his short time in Atlanta, he’d worked with receivers coach named Jimmy Raye, who’d introduced a more fundamental approach,” allowing him to get back in the NFL with the Colts (150). With all of his hard work to get back in the NFL he “caught passes in sixty-two consecutive games, a franchise record,” Jessie came from dropping passes to not being able to stop catching the ball (152). Jessie Hester dropped passes in tight situations of a game but after hard work and training he went from dropping passes to breaking a franchise record because of his hard work. In addition to Jessie Hester expressing the theme of working hard to achieve anything, but also Jamarious Rowley, “Mario” shows this