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Ivory Christian Anomie Theory
My theory of why Ivory Christian is so withdrawn and quiet has to do with a sense of anomie. He feels that because he cannot connect with his town’s love for football that he does not belong there. The reason he chooses church over sport is because not only can he relate to the whole town, which is majority Christian, but he can look to a higher power, something that is larger than him for inspiration and for strength. Ivory feels this sense of anomie because of the inequality between the high schools. Eton High, which Ivory attended, was not into football as much as the other two high schools in Odessa. The rest of Odessa connects with football as if it is part of their identity and Ivory could not relate on that
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