Book Review: The Big Time By Tim Green

For my realistic fiction book talk I read the book The Big Time by Tim Green, and I chose this book because of Previous books I read by the same author that I liked. The main setting of the book is Atlanta, Georgia, and it switches between many places in the town. Troy White, the main character, is an amazing football player with a very special talent. Troy can predict the plays that teams will run before it actually happens. Troy works for the Atlanta Falcons as a “Football Genius”. The problem Troy faces is that his father abandoned him and his mother, but now he is coming back. Troy’s father is a lawyer who works for a lot of big-name people, and seems very rich. Troy also needs either an agent or lawyer as well to get him a contract in the NFL. When Troy’s father starts coming back, Troy wants to see and talk to him, as well as have
In the scene, Troy is at his Seth’s house with his football team and their parents to celebrate winning the football state championship. That is when Troy’s father comes, in an orange porsche, as Troy and his mom are getting ready to leave the party. His father claims that he wants to see Troy, and that he did not know Troy existed, until he saw him on TV with Larry King. Troy’s mom makes him leave, though, upsetting Troy. A craft move used in this scene is an expanded moment. “Can I help you’ Seth asked, the cords in his muscular neck now dancing in the porch light. Troy’s father stood an inch or two over six feet - as tall as Set - with a handsome face worn from weather and worry. He laughed a soft, friendly laugh, and he stuck out a big hand with a slim gold watch on his wrist.” This moment was important for the author to make longer because it set the whole book on course. It caused Troy to run away that night, and nights after, to see his father, and talk to him. If this never happened, Troy would have never