| Neely Crenshaw ate, sleep, and was football. From the time he was in 6th grade his hopes and dreams were to become the greatest and Coach Eddie Rake was going to get him there. Coach Rake was not an easy coach to deal with. He was hard on his boys and because of it they won many, many games. After an altercation in the locker room at half time at a high school title game, where Coach Rake backhanded Neely, his star quarterback, and Neely knocked him out cold, Neely hated the man. He finished the rest of the game winning it with a busted nose and a broken hand and left town never wanting to return. Now, after 15 years he is back. Coach Rake is on his deathbed and all his former players are slowly returning to the field to sit in the bleachers and recall their own stories and love/hate relationships with the man. When he passes away Neely is one of the chosen few asked to give a eulogy. Not good speaking in front of crowds and winging it he talks about Coach Rake, the impact he made on his life and all the other players lives, about his career ending college game and how Coach Rake had visited him at the hospital after they had told him he'd never play football again, and about the fact that every boy that played for Rake both loved and hated him.
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Plot & Themes Tone of book? - thoughtful Time/era of story - 2000+ (Present Day) Life of a profession: Internal struggle/realization? Yes Struggle over Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book Job/Profession/Status story Yes Main Character Gender - Male Profession/status: Main Adversary Identity: - Male Intelligence - Average intelligence Setting How much descriptions of surroundings? - 2 () Small town? Yes Small town people: - nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee Misc setting Writing Style Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog |
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