Keep Going

Authors Note: This piece is going to be from a main characters point of view in a novel and what his life is like and how he changes it and how the story would be different from a different characters point of view.

In the novel Night Hoops by Carl Deuker the main character Nick has lots of great people helping him like his dad and mom. He is living a hard life in the book, his parents have split up and doesn't get to see his dad that much anymore. His dad wants him to keep playing the sport he loves the most and his mom wants him to focus more on school work then basketball. He isn't the only child in his family he also has an older brother who is always in his room playing an instrument and nick can never get him to play basketball with him.

In the book the point of view is coming from the main character in the novel we here what he feels an is thinking. From nicks point of view there is this one mean kid the same age and he is always mean to him and other people and he is afraid to even go near him. I will give you an example. So when nick was walking home from school they both didn't like each other so nick saw trent coming to him and trent pushed nick into a ditch and almost killed him by trying to drowned him. If the point of view was on the mean kid Trent lots of things would be different in the book. Trent would think that nick is kind of annoying and he would think he is the best at basketball. Trent is a bad kid and he gets in trouble lots of times by the police if we heard that from Trent's point of view it would be way different then nicks and how he thinks he is bad. Trent's reason why he pushed nick in the ditch is because when they were both playing football nick pushed trent really hard out of bounce and that was what started this whole thing.

If you read this book you will learn a lot about life and to keep going even when times are tough. I have never been in this situation before like nick and how there is this mean boy coming over to his house and playing ball on his court or hurting nick and almost killing him. hopefully you have never been in this situation like nick if you have I bet you had to fight through it and try to stay away from it. So when you get stuck try have people help you and try your best.

There are many sport books out there and with not always the main character as kind of like the narrator which everyone thinks it is going to be that way there are other sport books with different narrations in them. If you don't like sport book you should try and read this one and I think you will like it. So keep pushing even when times get hard.