Author’s Note: I am writing this piece to let other readers
know about the main character Danny in the novel Travel Team by Mike Lupica and how he helps others
throughout the book.
Danny isn’t a big tall kid as lots of you would think he is,
lots of you think he is because it is a sports book and usually the main
character is big and strong but Danny is the opposite. Throughout the book
Danny becomes wiser and a great influence on other people. There are many great
examples of what he does in the book.
His dad was a great example for him at the beginning he
really wanted him to play basketball on the same team he did when he was in 6th
grade. Danny tried out for the basketball team and didn’t make it he was very
upset and it felt like his life’s goal was no longer possible he tried giving
up because he thought he wasn’t good anymore. He then decides to practice a lot
more and try to make it on another team that he’s dad was going to coach he
said he was never going to give up from this point forward and he made the team
I think that was one great example of not giving up and trying harder.
On the other hand why’ll he was going through this his dad
was watching him and seeing what he was doing if he wanted to come back and
play basketball or not. His friends were
also great influences on him they kept saying you should go back and start
playing the sport you love. He was also
a great influence on other people too because when you should fight back to
what you want to accomplish you should do it and never give up and he decide to
never give up. And lots of people saw that and learned something from that
experience that Danny had.
Giving up is a really bad thing because if you want to go
back to it later then you are not has good has you were before when you were
doing what every you were doing.
