Gym Candy Book Report

The book Gym Candy by Carl deuker is about a boy named Mike Johnson who struggles with trying to make his dad proud of him by playing football and being the best on the team. Mike soon thinks that the only way to become stronger is by steroids. This idea came from his personal trainer Peter Volz. This eventually leads to mike using it and makes him addicted leading to one very intriguing story.

The Protagonist of the novel is Mick Johnson. Micks dad Mike used to be a professional football player and since mick was little his dad would always go outside and play football with him and this is what made mick fall in love with football. Micks dad even made him stay back a year from kindergarten to make him bigger than all the other kids when he started to play pop warner (Football for people from 8-14, 15). Mick always regarded his father as being a star and being the best football player and he would always ask his father mike why he wasn't playing football anymore his dad said that he got a really bad ankle sprain and that he could no longer play and was put on the reserve bench until finally he got kicked off the team for not being able to play. Mick begins to change …show more content…
This scene stands out because it shows how Mick feels about the problems that he had faced throughout the Novel especially taking steroids. I felt like I was there because it was like the ending of a movie and it was an urgent event that draws you in to see what happens next. When Mick pulled the trigger his hand twitches which threw off his aim to where the bullet sort of grazed the top of his head and he falls unconscious so his friend Drew took him to the hospital. Another scene is when Mick is running to get the touchdown in the last quarter and he falls 12 inches away from the touchdown. I feel like in that scene mick realized how much more he needs to train and how much of that would be easier with