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Analysis Of Hoops By Walter Dean Myers

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Madison Brewer
Ms. Gourd
Pre-AP 10th ELA
March 27, 2018
Always a way out In the book, “Hoops” by Walter Dean Myers, the detestable wrestle of the African American culture is indicated through the setting, characters, and the story line. Seventeen year-old Lonnie Jackson exhibits how effective the culture can be and how he maneuvers through it, with his woman, Mary-Ann, by his side and his immense love for basketball. This story focuses on the actuality of young men who endure testing accusations, but there is always a way out, basketball, in this demonstration.
This book takes place in the 1980s throughout the town of Harlem, New York. The author uncovers that Lonnie lives in the ran-down part of town and that …show more content…

Lonnie has mixtures of hero characteristics and characteristics of the initiate. The hero like characteristics Lonnie upholds are being independent, strong, and trying to fulfill a task. His father was absent most of his life and the relationship between him and his mother was not the strongest, making him really independent. “When I thought about it, I knew it wasn’t so much that I had changed, or even that she had changed, but the situation was different that it had been, and we couldn’t talk about it.”(Myers 2). When Mary- Ann tried to divulge her love for Lonnie, he did not know how to respond. “That’s a real turnoff, huh? Really puts your nature down, don’t it?” (Myers 107). The task Lonnie needed to fulfill was being the leader of the Harlem basketball team. When Cal went missing one of the many times, Lonnie had to step up and coach the boys at one of the important games of the Championship tournament. “It’s got to have a leader.”(Myers 105). However, Lonnie still had stripes to earn. “I had to come to practice ready to show Cal that I wanted to take care of business.”(Myers 100). “When he called practice off for everyone except me, I figured he was just going to be on my case, again, but I didn’t mind, really.”(Myers 40). Cal Jones and Lonnie had a run in one night at The Grant. Cal was just a random drunk man singing about big feet, for all Lonnie knew. He never expected to mutter the words, “Cal, I love you,

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