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The story “Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push” by Walter Myers is a very inspirational story where a boy, Chris Blair, is in a car crash and loses his ability to walk but perseveres doing what he likes despite having an injury. The author in this story can convey a lot of messages but I think the main overall message is that disabled people can still play sports and even sometimes be better than non-disabled people. The mom demonstrates this when she asked the dad, who was a professional basketball player, if he could play better than his son Chris, who is in a wheelchair due to a car accident, and the dad said “Then he looked back down at the screen and grumbled something. I figured he was saying there was no way he could play as well as me in a chair, but I didn’t …show more content…

Dad took it hard, real hard. He was never much of a talker, mom said, but he talked even less since I was hurt.” but towards the end of the story he starts to accept the fact that his son is disabled and starts helping Chris’s basketball team. But Chris also had to persevere because he went from being a kid that could walk normally to a kid who is stuck in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, but Chris is a very humble person and learned to accept the fact that some of his dreams are crushed but he was happy when he learnt there was wheelchair basketball being run by Mr.Evans he started gaining hope again, “I hadn’t thought about that when Mr.Evans, an elder in our church, asked me if I wanted to join a wheelchair basketball team he was starting.” Now even though there is nothing to prove in that quote that he was getting hope again, if you read on later in the story you can tell he’s having a whole lot of fun with his teammates and that it motivates him and the

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