Sarah Hulges My Seven-Year-Old Son The Boxer Summary

There are many types of sport golf, gymnastic, boxing and so on. Some of them are more brutal then others. Boxing is a martial art and thereby a sport where you can easily get hurt. This means there is an age limit at 11. If you want to start boxing when you are younger like the boy in the article My seven-year-old son the boxer, you can not start before you turn 11 because you have to be fully de-veloped so you are not injuring your body. The article My seven-year-old son the boxer written by Sarah Huges explains how parents are dealing with the martial art boxing when their son(s) or daughter(s) wants to start at the brutal sport. She looks at the pros and cons and finds out that as a parent she must support her child even if it is hard.

By now I was worried. This didn’t seem like a passing fad. Yet I really didn’t want my son to box, not now, not when he was older. My mind was full of serious injuries from concussion to brain bleed, from fractures of the skull to shattered eye sockets (page 2, line 55-61). Huges tries to get the reader to understand her position as a parent. She doesn’t wish to see her son get hurt or injured. But on the other hand, she also says: But at the same time I wondered whether my resistance to the idea of him boxing was making me a hypocrite. (page 2, line 61-64). This quoted shows a mother who does not want to put an end to her son´s dream about becoming a boxer but she is worried. She is trying to show the reader that you own fear can overshadow the goodness and the benefits. In the text there are mentioned some different examples of benefits like: better concentrating, trusting yourself more, hold your nerve, have a positive men-tality (page 4, line 243-248) and so on. Overall are Huges is looking at the pros and

She became a box-ing correspondent 25 years ago because she considered fighting herself, however that was unheard of for a girl at that time (page 2, line 66-70). She has talked to a lot of people who knows boxing well and has thereby gained a lot of information. She has seen some fights and she has seen how boxing can capture people, so they feel like they are part of something maybe even a family e.g. Frank Bruno once called boxing “the toughest and loneliest sport in the world”. He was right, but at its best it also feels like a club to which you’re lucky to belong (page 3, line 108-112). And the club can be almost like a really weird extended family. There’s a lot of support. It also has enormous benefits (page5, line 284-287). Here Huges are looking at the pros and cons because there are not only bad things in boxing there are also some benefits. Those benefits she has experienced herself. She has not only read about boxing but seen it and this makes her words seem more trustworthy for the reader but also the fact that she is a boxing correspondent, this helps strengthen her ethos be-cause the reader thereby expects her to have some knowledge about boxing and its