The story Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Jason Reynolds takes place in Brooklyn, New York. Miles is a high school student currently enrolled through a scholarship at Brooklyn's Visions Academy. Miles starts the story by not wanting to do things and not having a lot of courage. As it goes on he experiences racism from one of his teachers which gives him a lot of anger. From this anger, he learns to speak out and gains courage. One lesson the story suggests is having the courage to find your true self can lead to finding your inner strength. (T)At the start of the book, (TS)the events that take place show that Miles has minimal courage and is scared to do things. (C)There is a scene at the beginning of the book where Miles is with his best friend Ganke wants Miles to play a basketball game for money but it doesn't end as planned. (TE)Ganke tries to encourage Miles to play by saying “Let's go.” Gankes headed in. …show more content…
“Come On. It'll be fun.”(A)In this piece of dialogue, Ganke knows that Miles has special abilities which will make him win in the 1v1 in basketball. Miles gets scared though because he doesn't want anything bad to happen or the other people to get mad at him. After the game, the other boys that they played with got very mad at Miles. They started trying to get the money back and put up a fight. Miles uses his special abilities and helps Ganke by fighting other people. In this part of the scene, Miles is very brave for fighting the other people and trying to help Ganke. (CS)Although Miles never wanted this to happen, he had to try to be brave and be himself and fight the other people to try to protect his best friend, which might be why later he decides to stand up for his crush and himself when experiencing