Remember Why You Play Analysis

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In David Thomas’s book, Remember Why You Play he explains and provides evidence to show that football is more than just a game and teaches every important life lessons. Football carries many valuable lessons in it that many people don’t see. Coach Hogan and his team were put against the odds and tried their very best top overcome it. Reading material that is on current high school reading lists should have the criteria of a problem that gets in the way of things, what it means to be an adult, and being able to keep the reader engaged. Thomas’s Remember Why You Play accomplishes these purposes by overcoming challenges, teaching moral values, and entertains the reader throughout the content.
Remember Why You Play, tells the story in the beginning of the Grapevine Faith Christian School 2007 football season as they work from preseason camp all the way to the final state championship game. In doing so, David Thomas discovers far more about this team and their head coach as than he ever anticipated as he follows the whole program for one season. The fact that this team is very skilled and that they set a season goal of winning the state championship, adds an element of drama that keeps the reader interested as the season unfolds. The narrative climaxes with the life changing game against Gainesville State in the following season. This story will inspire readers to
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The novel accomplishes the purposes of a high school reading List. The purposes are surpassing questionable positions, defining what it means to be an adult, and causing the reader to be entertain. If you carry the traits of what means to be an Adult and taking action will help you with every aspect of life. These three points are very important has the reader of the novel is growing up and becoming smarter and more

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