1.Write in detail about what you believe the book is saying about people or the world. I think that the book is talking about choices and courage. This book is talking about choices because it is trying to tell us that every person might become whatever he or she wants. The dream of the kid was to become a real soccer player and be a great keeper and he made it. However, it is not just the dream of the kid and how did he make it, it is about how a kid who was raised in the jungle can reach the ability of winning a world cup being such a humble person. If we think about the fact that the boy practiced soccer 2 hours per day, we may say that this kid had a great courage because he was not good enough when he started playing soccer, some of …show more content…
However, beside playing soccer i could not do anything till one day that I went to the jungle to explore it, Beside trees and lianas there was not nothing special, so I went back to my house and I fell asleep.When i was sleeping, I was dreaming about a man who was in the jungle.I remember that i had that dream about five nights in a row till I went to the jungles to see what was going on.When i got there I found a man with a strange face.It turned out that this man wanted to taught me to play soccer, to get better. That is what he did, he taught me many skills and abilities.That is how i become what i am.A great …show more content…
Omar Ortiz: When I was a kid, I used to be that guy who was always in the bench.You see, I was useless.I could not play.The other kids could do great things with the ball.Run and keep it in the air with the head, score goals with bicycle kicks,stuff like that.I could do none of this.When the ball came to me-which is wasn't often-the other kids made sure of that-it always seemed to get stuck between my ankles.I had no balance-a soft tackle from a smaller kid would send me staggering like a drunken goat.I was too tall.I had long, skinny arms and legs, and big clumsy hands.Some people used to called me "La ciguena”-The Stork- because of these reasons and because I was always standing like a statue on the soccer