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Athletic Shorts

            
             The book I read this month is Athletic Shorts, it is a book full of short stories about times in teenagers lives who are in sports. The story that I am going to make into my report is the second story of the book "The Pin.".
             Setting: Before wrestling season, location unknown. .
             Characters: Johnny Rivers, his mom Maggie Rivers, his brother MacAurther Rivers, his dad Cecil B. Rivers, and his coach "Coach.".
             Point of view: First person point of view.
             Theme: The theme of this story was that parents shouldn't be so hard on their kids. .
             Plot: This story is about Johnny Rivers, a 17-year-old high school wrestler. Johnny is the son of Cecil B. Rivers, a great wrestler in his day. His pride was being named 2nd wrestler at Oklahoma University. Cecil was really hard on Johnny, examples such as telling him how and how to eat, and doing pushups for things that Cecil didn't like. One day the challenge came up between Cecil and Johnny to have a wrestling match against each other. The match was very hard for both of them, but Johnny won. After he had won the match, he held his hand out to shake, but his dad slapped him and walked away. Later that night they made up and Cecil told Johnny about how he had turned into his dad by being so hard on Johnny, and how he didn't want it to end up that way. .
             Connection to Course and Content: In this story there was a conflict throughout it between Cecil and Johnny.
            


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