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Analyzing Daniel James Brown's The Boy In The Boat

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The book, The Boy’s in the Boat by Daniel James Brown is about about nine boys and their journey to receiving a gold medal in the olympics. I really enjoyed this amazing nonfiction book because it’s always fun to learn about real people’s lives. Which, is one of the two things that really put me in the reading zone. At some points in the book there are sad, exciting, and even times that they want to give up, but they stick together as a team in the end. Lastly, I really love how most of the same emotions happen at one point in their own lives, such as the past, present, and future. This book made me feel sad and sorry for Joe because he was abandoned as a child, but then reconnected with his father, stepmother, and siblings later on in life. …show more content…

The real case is that you have to spend long days with your teammates, and workout in the gym to make sure you won’t give out when competing. “Then, as the bridge loomed ahead, he leaned forward and called out, ‘Gimme ten big ones!’ The Washington boys dug hard. The boat leapt forward. At the end of the ten strokes, the bows of the boats were dead even again. With the bridge and finish line closing on them, Morry screamed again, ‘Gimme ten more!’ Joe and Shorty and Roger and everyone with an oar in his hands threw everything they had into the last few pulls. The boats shot under the bridge side by side,” (Brown 106). When they were competing in the olympics, they had to race in the outside/worst lane and it was windier. Also, another thing that happened right before the olympics is that one of the nine boys get sick a couple of days before the race, and can hardly row. When Al Ulbrickson, (the head coach), tells Don Hume that he can’t row, it breaks the whole team’s heart. They consider putting in the substitute Don Coy, but then come up with the idea of just strapping Hume in for the ride so he can still get this amazing

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However, Thula’s decision to punish not Mike but Joe allows to reader to visualize the extent of her hatred towards Joe. Another example that portrays Thula’s hate towards Joe and how Joe persevered through his loss was when Joe was a mere ten years old. Joe’s father, swayed by Thula’s sharp tongue towards Joe, “told his son that he would have to move out of the house” (Brown 46). Despite the difficulties Joe faced, he had not yet lost hope and continued to work, learn, and sleep as best he could, which portrays his determined and optimistic

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Daniel James Brown, the author of The Boys in the Boat, uses Joe Rantz’ story to symbolize the way America was able to find hope in a time of hopelessness and despair in the world-the Great Depression, and Nazi Germany. Joe Rantz was kicked out of his home at a very young age, even though he hadn’t done anything wrong. Joe’s mom, “Thula exploded in the face of what she saw a lax discipline... she would not live under the same roof as Joe...went back upstairs and told [Harry’s] only son he would have to move out of the house. Joe was ten” (Brown 36).

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