Essay About High School And Live Game Man

Tears of a Tiger
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Overall the book was very good. It relates to a topic that is very real to me and to
my classmates. The one thing that I disliked throughout
the entire book was the way that
these kids talked. You could tell that a teacher wrote this book because she tried to
replicate the speech of her students. However, she fell short in her attempt. The
language that this story used, such as “live game man,” and “you be flyin with the hoops
man,” are perfect examples of an adult trying to act like she knows how kids talk. I play
varsity basketball just like these kids do and I have never heard anyone on any team say
something like “you fulla mess.” For conversation in the book the author should
have asked one of her students how they would say a certain thing.
Once I got past the language I liked everything else. The conflict in the book was
something that I could really relate to and I know my peers could as well. Depression is
a topic that anyone in high school could talk to you about. Whether their friend,
someone they know, of they themselves has suffered from depression, almost everyone in
high school could relate to this subject. I appreciated what this kid was going though a
little more than others that have read it because just two years ago my older brother lost
his best friend in an automoblie accident. Although the crash was not my brothers
fault I knew what Andy was going through because I had seen my brother go through
many of the same things. I know my brother doesnt like to talk about his friend anymore
but this book made me wonder just how much the death of his friend affected my
brother. This book made me just sit down and thank God that my brother didnt take the
same road that Andy took.
I felt that I could relate to the characters in the book as well. These characters
didnt have extremely unusual problems like I have read about in other books. They face
the same