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Jerry Spinelli's Crash
Crash, the main character of Jerry Spinelli’s book Crash, has a very negative relationship with his parents causing him to think and act differently than others his age. During Crash’s football game he doesn’t want to go out because he wants his parents to be able to see him play when/if they do come: “I glanced at the stands. ‘You can't take me out. I’m just getting warmed up.’”(Spinelli 64) As you can see, Crash really wants to impress his parents, but they are never around to see him do well at football or anything else. This makes Crash want to be the best at everything all the time. Constantly wanting to be the best makes Crash seem very self-centered when, really, all that he wants is to make his parents proud. Before Crash’s
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