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 guard from the playgrounds of Chicago when St Joseph recruiters saw him. Arthur was playing against guy's three years older than he was and he was still the best in the neighborhood. Arthur's parents Bo and Sheila Agee were very poor people who were on cocaine and could not support their family. Big Earl, the guy who recruited Arthur told his family that St. Joe's would be able to pay Arthur's tuition if he played basketball for them. Arthur went to St. Joe's and met William Gates. They had become friends in grade school but had never really done anything together. Eventually William turned out to be the better player and all the attention and money was focused on him. Therefore, Arthur was booted out of St. Joe's in the middle of the school year. He was forced to enroll at Marshall, the area public school. As a result, Arthur could see his dreams of the NBA were slipping away. Along with that, he couldn't keep his grades up enough to attend a Division I school. He and the Marshall Commandos ended up going downstate Arthur's senior year. They finished third in the state overall. Arthur ended up going to a junior college named Mineral Area in Flat River Mississippi. After his two years in Mississippi, Arthur received a scholarship to Arkansas State. He finished his degree in communications and he graduated. Arthur never did reach his dream of going to the NBA, at least yet. As you can see, it takes a lot for an inner city boy to try and reach his dream, but most of the time it never happens. William Gates was also 14 when he was recruited to go to St.
Hoop Dreams " He whose face gives no light shall never become a star." Three filmmakers spent seven years in inner city Chicago to construct a documentary based on the lives and dreams of two boys, Arthur Agee and William Gates. ... Arthur had big dreams of playing in the NBA, and he followed those dreams to the last. ...
Hoop Dreams is about two African-American kids that are growing up in the ghetto, and are good at basketball. At least that what it seems to be at first before the everyday issues came into play, family, money, and drugs. With the film crew with the two family's, especially Arthur's, you beg...
In The Minister's Black Veil , The members of Father Hooper's congregation were uneasy to see a Religions figure like Father Hooper the way he was. ... Hooper's face!" ... Hooper's intellects," observed her husband, the physican of the village. ... But then I realized what hour Father Hooper was talking about. ... By the end of the story, Goodman Brown is still not sure whether what he saw was a dream or whether he really witnessed the "witch meeting" in the forest but out of fear, he distances himself from Faith and starts to distrust her. ...
She talks of dreams, too. ... Hooper knows that man is born into sin, yet still will not live normally. ... Hooper becomes obsessed with hating the sinful world. ... Hooper's black veil ultimately causes people to shun and fear him. ... Hooper, he wants mankind to be flawless. ...
On one side, there is a hoop of gold, symbolizing a halo, the ultimate sign of heaven. ... Regrettably, it was just a dream. ... It was all a dream. ... I am a poster child for the American Dream. ... It must have all been a dream but when you can't sleep and you drift in and out of consciousness, realty, fiction, and dreams begin to mix as one and the only thing true is what you believe....
Hooper's veil. It takes this meaning from what it signifies about the human condition, the consequences is has on Hooper, and the characters who try to interpret it's meaning. The focus in the story is on the meaning of the veil, not on Hooper's motives for wearing it. Because Hooper donned the veil, his emotional life was then ended, and the areas of human experience in which he might have participated in, effectively extinguished. ... From Goodman Brown's dream vision or his spectral adventure in the forest, he has received a paralyzing sense that the brotherhood and unit...
For other people it is just an orange blob with black lines that bunches of people throw around and toss into a hoop. ... The ball is all the hopes and dreams that wish to achieve, putting the ball away in the hoop just shows if you work hard and know what you want you can get to your goals and dreams. ...
Hooper who placed a black veil over his face to gain power over his congregation. ... Hooper, Alymer, and Dr. ... Hooper intended to wear a black veil for one sermon, but after feeling the power that it imposed in him, he decided never to take it off. ... Hooper took pride in delivering the normal Sunday sermon, but the black veil brought on new powers over every member that left the minister even more gratified. ... This experience is a sudden realization brought about by divine intervention, or a vision, which is easily translated into the dream allegory of Hawthorne's work and allow...
Hooper who placed a black veil over his face to gain power over his congregation. ... Hooper, Alymer, and Dr. ... Hooper intended to wear a black veil for one sermon, but after feeling the power that it imposed in him, he decided never to take it off. ... Hooper took pride in delivering the normal Sunday sermon, but the black veil brought on new powers over every member that left the minister even more gratified. ... This experience is a sudden realization brought about by divine intervention, or a vision, which is easily translated into the dream allegory of Hawthorne's work and allow...
