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The novel “After The Shot Drops” focuses on two main characters, Nasir and Bunny. They are best friends until something comes in the way of their friendship, and gets torn apart. What tore them apart was that Bunny got a basketball scholarship to a school called St. Sebastians. Their friendship has been very meaningful since they were little boys. In this essay, I will mainly discuss Bunny and his character traits. Bunny is a person with a very determined mindset that chooses basketball over everything else. Throughout the book, it very clearly states the bunny is a nice, smart, and determined person. For example Bunny wants to win state, so every time he has free time he works on basketball to get better at the sport he loves. We know this because Bunny says, “I run the hill a few more times until my legs hurt” This piece of evidence proves that bunny is very smart with his dedication to work harder each day, getting better and better. Separating himself from the average athlete. In the novel bunny shows kindness toward mostly everyone. The reasoning behind that statement is bunny was willing to end his relationship to try and get back with his old best friend to try and be …show more content…

Bunny got an offer to play at a different school to get higher recognition and be an overall better basketball player. Although it was not the smartest decision for his friend's sake, I felt like his friends should have been supportive rather than upset that he “betrayed him”. The scholarship was to a private school called St. Sebastian, and which was an upscale school in the suburbs. Bunny said in the novel “I announced that I was transferring from Whitman (our neighborhood school) to St. Sebastians” That text evidence claims that Bunny wants to go to this upscale private school and hopes there's a chance to make it big in the basketball industry. Those statements show that bunny has a very hard dedication towards

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