The book Hoop Dreams Paul Robert Walker shows how life can work against you in every way imagined no matter how hard you work. It shows how all good can turn to bad in the blink of an eye and how all your dreams can be thrown away after everything youve worked towards completing. The story is based on two men Arthur Agee and William Gates whos lives are basically recorded from their freshman year in high school to their senior year of playing basketball. Their story means something to anyone with a dream to play basketball at a higher level. The purpose of this book was for Walker to show all the things that can turn something good for somebody bad and for somebody who has something bad to work to change it to good. Arthur Agee and William Gates are two young teenagers ready to jump into highschool basically not for school but just for basketball.
Both of these talented young players are scouted by a top basketball highschool in the country. They are both given scholarships for one semester for this school to play basketball. After one semester William is given a scholarship to go to highschool for the rest of his highschool career at this school while Arthur isnt . Arthurs family cannot afford the school so he has to change schools in to a sluggish school with little future given to its graduates. Arthur loses all the credit he earned at his former school because he cannot pay the cost for the Their is many problems addressed in the book about money. William has his school paid for which means he will get the better education and he has the better basketball highschool for being scouted at by top college teams.
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Arthur is back tracked in debt and must pay 1,200 $ before he can get his transcripts and credit for the classes he took. This is bad for Arthur because at one point in the book the heat and electricity is turned off for 3 months because the Agee family is very poor and in debt. After continuing problems Arthurs father leaves the family and barely visits Arthur and stays away from his life. So basically this puts Arthur in a situation of being poor going to a rough school and not having a good basketball school that would draw scouts for his future dreams of making it to the NBA. William has a situation where he starts varsity as a freshman and he is already being looked at as a sensation and doesnt have to worry about school tuition and a very superior education that Arthur. The book takes you through their freshman through senior years in highschool and shows Arthurs struggles and shows Williams stardom at his prestigious highschool know for its top players and teams throughout its basketball history.
During their senior years Arthur gets his chance at varsity and Williams school is favored to win Chicagos city championship. Along the way everything is on track as Arthurs team matures and Arthur starts to play his role on the team to help them win. A little way through the season William tears knee cartilage and will sit out 16 weeks of the season and watch his team struggle without him, and his team must learn to win without him. Arthurs team makes it to the state tournament and roles through its opponents upsetting some of the biggest school names in the Chicago area. Williams team roles through its first two opponents as it did when it made it to the state championship semi finals and finals the past three years. William suffers a knee blow in only the second round of the state tournament to watch his team exit the state championship the earliest in ten years while he sits on the bench helpless because of his knee. Arthurs team is given the nickname the giant killers after it beats all of its opponents winning a unpredicted state championship given Arthur media stardom in front of Williams coach which cut his scholarship because he thought Arthur would never develop into a basketball player to see Arthur mature and win and lead his team through the state championship showing his leadership and passion to win. The passion and leadership was what costed Williams team the game after he reinjured his knee and was unable to play.
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Hoop Dreams Hoop Dreams is a story about two young men who want to become basketball players in the NBA. The author Ben Joravsky wrote the book. The idea for the book came from the documentary movie, Hoop Dreams, which is a true story. Arthur Agee and William Gates are the names of the two boys who were followed from eighth grade to twelve grade to do the movie. Arthur Agee was a 5'6 125 pound ...
Arthur Agee was always simulating that he was in the NBA whenever he would play basketball on the playgrounds in Chicago. His NBA dream was so strong he would spend hours practicing using this as an escape to his problems of poverty welfare problem. The pressure was on Arthur by his brother Craig who played basketball at the same highschool as he did and was a standout star. Craig blew out his knee and his future but he once was a top prospect as Arthur wants to be given the chance. William is almost identical to Arthur but not having as many money problems. WIliiams dream of making it to the NBA is as strong as Arthurs. William wants to portrey Isiah Thomas that went to his highschool and later on to the NBA. I see Arthur and William as having an unstopable dream because of their talent.
Arthur and William dont realize how good that you have to be to make it to a big time college or the pros. William tore cartilage in his knee which kept away his chance of any interest by schools while Arthur never was watched by scouts because of he didnt start varsity untill is senior year without much experience. Arthurs family was too over confindent with Arthur because they strived just as he did for him to make it to the NBA because of their poverty. This came crashing down on Arthur because it was now harder for him to let go of his dream becaue it was thought by so many people around Arthur that he could make it that he felt he was throwing his life away by not making the pros. Williams family is not really shown in the book as much as Arthurs but are always seem to be in the crowd giving encouragement to William. I saw William as definitally having luck go is way in life. Arthur didnt grow much untill his later career in school and William seemed to be filled out his freshman year which got him the start for
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