Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger, Cycle 19, 31-45

Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger, Cycle 19, 31-45
Summary
Pages 31-37 were the last pages of the Chapter Odessa and told us more about the town. It told us that the town had the most murders per capita in the U.S. This was because when there was oil booms people would kill each other for money and then when there wasn’t any oiled to be pumped and found the town people would get frustrated at each other and shoot them up. The next chapter after that is The Watermelon feed. The Watermelon Feed was a big event held in Odessa that the whole town went to. The Watermelon Feed is an event when all the members of the Permian football team would get introduced to the town and the team and staff would talk about football. When the town would go to the Watermelon Feed they would wear all the Permian clothes they had and would wear only black and white, the Permian’s colors.
Vocabulary
Visceral- of or relating to the viscera
Unpretentious- no attempting to impress others with an appearance of greater importance, talent, or culture that is actually possessed.
Paradoxical- seemingly absurd or self-contradictory
1. List 2-5 high qualities, open-ended questions regarding the reading, and answer your questions.
1. Why are Permian people so into Mojo Football and not something else?
I think that the Permian people are so into Mojo Football and not something else because it is something all family’s is Odessa can be a part of. Also the Permian people can be proud of Mojo football. It’s something that they can be proud of because they are good at it and they know it. The Permian Football team is one of the best football teams in Texas and they always have a chance at having a winning season. The only other thing that is good in Odessa is the oil mining but the oil mining goes up and down and is always changing but the football team always does good.
2. How would the Odessa people be like with Mojo Football to obsess about?
I think that the Odessa people would go crazy and just commit crimes and do bad things. Mojo Football gives them something to train for and to live for. The Odessa boys dreams are to play for Mojo Football and do well for them so they start playing football at a young age. The parents of the football players and family’s and friends get into Mojo Football because they know someone who is in it or was a pepete when they went to Permian or played football themselves. Everyone in the town of Odessa has some connection to Permian football to entertain them and keep them occupied. If they didn’t have football they would probably have nothing to keep stable for and commit crimes or fight or just have sex to fill up their time.