Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger, Cycle 20, 46-60

Summary
This section I read was all about Boobie Miles. This part talks about how all the college’s want Boobie to come play for them so they send him letters saying their school is the best, how nice their facility’s are, and how good their coaching staff is. They say all these things but they don’t mention how hard of a time Boobie will have in the classrooms at the college. Boobie wasn’t always the smartest kid in class. He takes classes that kids a couple of years younger are taking. In this part it talks about how Boobie plays hardcore, ass kicking football, and which football teams he wants to play for. It also talks about his relationship with his father. He didn’t live with his father all his life. He lived with his uncle on the Southside of Odessa where the blacks and Mexicans lived. It talks about when Boobie’s career gets questioned at a pre-season scrimmage. He runs the ball then gets hit funny and his knee gets messed up and he can’t put pressure on it so he see’s doctors and they tell him he has to get surgery and will be out for most the season.
Vocabulary
Adulation- obsequious flattery; excessive admiration or praise
Requite- make appropriate return for (a favor or service); reward
Incessant- (of something regarded as unpleasant) continuing without pause or interruption
1. What frustrates you most about this book, and why?
I am getting frustrated with this book for the second time. It is interesting enough for it to hold my attention but I am not finding myself within it. I choose this book because I thought I might find similar problems that I having that the football players are having but I am not doing that. They are high school students and are athletes like me but I don’t have problems with oil and living in the middle of nowhere. The other problem in this book is it deal’s with horrible racism that is not in Hawaii because everyone is so many different races and people use race as humor to make friendly jokes at each other. The living in Odessa is split white and black and Mexican when Hawaii is white, Asian, Hawaiian, Samoan, black, Filipino, and pretty much every race. The only connection between me and the book is the football factor but nothing else so I am debating on dropping the book and finding another that deals with me more.