Rake

It was a Sunday when this tragic incident happened. On May 8th I was trying to get this stump out at my mom's house with an axe. I went to stick it in the top of the stump to go eat lunch and it bounced off the stump and landed on my foot. It left a big scar on my left big toe. It didn’t hurt but blood was rushing out like crazy. And all I could think was “why doesn’t it hurt.” At 10:00 in the morning on Mother’s day my mom said “let's plan out our day.” The first thing she said was “let's rake the leaves.” “But I think we should do something else for your special day.” I replied. (Really, I just didn’t want to.) She said “we can after we rake the leaves.” We were out there for 15 minutes and I was getting so bored. So I thought “what if I…

day, I thought-- or so I believed. I picked out a blood red sweater to wear outside in spirit of Halloween. As for now, I had to go rake the leaves. My mom appeared to be in a cheery mood because she, surprisingly, decided to help me rake the yard. I grabbed my glossy black boots and headed out the door with my mom trailing behind me. The fall breeze brushed my hair across my face as I picked up the raggedy old rake. I groaned. My brother never finishes anything he starts; as a good sister, I…

coach of the spartans football team, Eddie Rake. Rake was like no other football coach, he was tough, unforgiving and even killed a player. Many characters saw that side of Rake but one saw a different side of Rake, Nat Sawyer. Nat saw the touching and caring side of Rake. For this reason Nat was the most affected by head coach eddie Rake for three reasons, Rake…

Bleachers Looking back on my high school career, one person had a major impact on my life was Eddie Rake. He was my coach and leader on and off the football field. Rake was my football coach from sixth grade to my senior year he always pushed me to do better. I didn’t like him at all but I respected him as a person and a coach. He had the town bussing about his football team he won the most games by any coach in Messina every. His workouts were the worst it was long and hard. The worst thing…

Parenting of Parents “Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first.” by Mathew Jacobson. Positive parent-child relationships provide the foundation for children’s learning and to maintain that parents should have a good understanding between them. “My Father’s Life” by Raymond Carver and “The Rake: A Few Scenes From My Childhood” by David Mamet both author’s briefly discussed their parent’s relationship with each other and with their children. According to me…

In John Grisham’s novel Bleachers, Coach Eddie Rake acts as a noble man through helping his community, his school, and his players. Coach Rake disagrees with any achievements other than greatness from his players. He portrays a good man by performing the deed of integrating the students, and volunteering during summer activities. Eddie Rake contributes to the community in many successful and limitless ways. The community appreciates everything Coach Rake has completed for them through his…

In John Grisham’s riveting novel Bleachers, the inspiring coach Eddie Rake positively changes the lives of his town by pushing them to achieve incredible goals and standards created by his love for them. The infamous coach would sacrifice his time during the summer to his coach understaffed youth football teams to make them better. He could never neglect someone who needed help and constantly kept the door of his house open to any child who needed help or even clothes. Rake was known to stand…

In John Grisham’s Bleachers, Eddie Rake demonstrates greatness by helping everyone, because he loves his players and Messina. He shows kindheartedness more than anyone in Messina. Rake helps his players throughout their lives. Coach Rake looks past each player’s differences. Eddie Rake cares about equality. He plays each and every player. Eddie Rake puts them in the game based on their ability, not the color of their skin. He made the newly integrated black players feel welcome. He did not…

Eddie Rake. Coach Rake has done horrible things to his players during the thirty plus years he coached, but has he done too much? Eddie Rake has not; based on the love his players have for him, gone too far to be redeemed. Grisham shows this in the instance of Collis Suggs’s statement at Rake’s funeral, “he truly did not care about the color of my skin, then I knew I would follow him anywhere. He hated injustice” (Grisham 215). Many players hold a love-hate relationship for Coach Rake but there…

shines through certain people more than others. Everyone has their own way of showing their respect. In John Grisham's Bleachers, Coach Eddie Rake is highly respected by a number of his football players. In turn he respects them even when it is hard to do so. Showing respect is not always easy, but sometimes very necessary. True respect is standing up for someone else when no one else is brave enough to do so . Coach Eddie Rake, of the Messina Spartans, always had the sort of authority that…