Analysis Of There's A Girl In My Hammerlock

This book “There’s a girl in my hammerlock is about a young female who want to get the attention of a boy named Eric Delong. Last year she joined basketball but she wanted to join the cheerleading team to get his attention but didn't make it in the team so tried out for wrestling because Eric was on the team. Then she joined and was underestimated by all of the boys just because she was a girl. The team treated her differently and she has to deal with people criticizing her. This book has a lot of strength but not a lot of people in my opinion. A strength in the book is that it is encouraging people that it is okay to be different. A weakness is the beginning didn't really grab my attention and I thought it was boring but when
I kept on reading it got better for example in the text it states “I’m confused if to quit or continue wrestling” . One other strength is it grabbed my attention and wanted to keep reading on and it never lost my attention and wanted to learn what happened the author used a lot of Anecdotes in this story he told short stories and exaggerated to prove a point in this story. The author also used flashback to explain how the character traits changed throughout the story and to explain why a character did something or the effect that happened. My personal response to this book is nice and encouraging because it is showing how she started out trying to impress a boy to coming close winning the national wrestling tournament for example in the text on page 162 it states “ Right then, all the things I felt was good. I felt good that I wrestled and it was no forfeit. I like how this story relates to other people that are scared or afraid to do something because it is different from what anyone else does this story it is showing it is ok to be unique or different because what people think doesn't matter what u think matters and it gives a message don't change because people want u to or criticize u. I loved that the author used flashback and anecdotes to explain how the character is changing and evolving throughout the story. One example of flashback the author used was ‘ I would have quit like I did before but I'm not giving up this time i'm proving I belong here”