Friday Night Lights Research Paper
Quarter 2 Timed Write Friday Night Lights
How can overcoming adversity on and off the field brings a team closer to each other?
Adversity can come in many ways, it can be in how someone may not be good at a sport and they must overcome this adversity. Or it can be losing someone or something and having it replaced by something different. The Permian Panthers overcome many adversities throughout the book on and off the field this makes them stronger and closer both as a team and as friends.
One adversity that can relate both on and off the field is that the Permian Panthers in a time where blacks weren’t viewed as equals to whites. The team has to come together and play together as a whole both blacks and whites and also accept each other off the field no matter their differences. Also the team has to overcome what may have been their greatest adversity throughout the whole book of losing their starting running back, best player on the team and best running back in the state of Texas, Boobie Miles. Who in one of their first games of the season picked up a knee injury that would make it impossible for him to ever play the game again. They overcame this …show more content…
It makes me see a good team that overcomes great odds and becomes a great team no matter the adversities. The author shows that as a team they could overcome great odds, but in the final game of most of the kids life the state championship game. Through all the adversities and obstacles they had gotten past as a team, it seemed through the blood, sweat and tear along the way once the final whistle blew the seniors and many of the other players just didn’t have any more to give. They now would have to start new, with their lives not ending when the final whistle blew but just
How can overcoming adversity on and off the field brings a team closer to each other?
Adversity can come in many ways, it can be in how someone may not be good at a sport and they must overcome this adversity. Or it can be losing someone or something and having it replaced by something different. The Permian Panthers overcome many adversities throughout the book on and off the field this makes them stronger and closer both as a team and as friends.
One adversity that can relate both on and off the field is that the Permian Panthers in a time where blacks weren’t viewed as equals to whites. The team has to come together and play together as a whole both blacks and whites and also accept each other off the field no matter their differences. Also the team has to overcome what may have been their greatest adversity throughout the whole book of losing their starting running back, best player on the team and best running back in the state of Texas, Boobie Miles. Who in one of their first games of the season picked up a knee injury that would make it impossible for him to ever play the game again. They overcame this …show more content…
It makes me see a good team that overcomes great odds and becomes a great team no matter the adversities. The author shows that as a team they could overcome great odds, but in the final game of most of the kids life the state championship game. Through all the adversities and obstacles they had gotten past as a team, it seemed through the blood, sweat and tear along the way once the final whistle blew the seniors and many of the other players just didn’t have any more to give. They now would have to start new, with their lives not ending when the final whistle blew but just