Friday Night Lights, written by H.G Bissinger, is a non-fiction book focusing on the Permian High School football team and their journey to potentially winning the State Championships. It takes place during 1988 focusing on the Permian football team in a small town named Odessa located in West Texas. In Odessa, the players and coaches all go to the same school, Permian High School, but they all live scattered throughout Odessa. Permian High School is a wealthy school filled with mostly white and wealthy families. It was created to draw the wealthy out of the dangered, mixed, Odessa High. Odessa is very divided, and they label different locations in their city for certain racial groups making racism a prominent problem in this town. The east side consists of the White, while Latinas live on the west side, and African Americans live on the southside. …show more content…
They are treated different and are seen as lower people despite academic and football successes they may have. This has been an ongoing problem in Odessa based on the history of the town and flashbacks that Bissinger shares frequently throughout the book about previous football seasons and years in Odessa. This town puts much emphasis on football and oil. It is a town that merely depends on the oil industry. Most of the jobs in Odessa revolve around the oil industry making it a very hard place to raise a family due to the instability of this industry. Odessa is described as a patch of desert with people who show great devotion to the game of football and have little consideration for the racial differences in the