Characters: Jimmy Doyle (Snowman), the main character, Coach Griffen, and Coach McNeil, the coaches of the team, Augustus, Shawn, Ray, and Stinger, all members of the team.

Point of View: This story is told from the eyes of Jimmy Doyle, so this story is told from a first person point of view.

Theme: I think that the theme of this story was that there are many disgusting problems out there in the wold (racism, death threats etc.), and the book was just telling us a little of what was out there with this story. The Main character was perfect for this role because he was from a rural town in Minnesota, and hadn't much knowledge about this sort of thing.

Plot: This story was about a teenage high school student from rural Minnesota, who had a talent in playing basketball. One day after one of his games, two men approached him with an invitation to represent America in a wold wide high school basketball tournament in Rome Italy. They

Connection to Course Content: I think that in this story that there was a connection between Jimmy and all of the racism and death threats. I think that Jimmy learned a lot about that kind of stuff.

When they got to Rome, they won their first game by about 40 points. Their next game would be a little harder to beat, the Germans. The German crowd was very hostile and they played very aggressive. There was a group of Germans with Nazi symbols on them that sat behind the American bench. The group was really hassling Augustus and by the end of the first half, Augustus had made it up into the stands and got in a fight with one of them. They came out in the second half and won by about 10 points. Somebody from Germany didn't like that little squabble and sent in a death threat aiming right at Augustus. The Italian military moved the team to a much safer area to stay and they were going to keep a close watch on them. Ray and two other guys of the team left to go home to their families. The rest of them stayed and toughed it out. In their last game against Spain, there was 7 seconds l

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Approximate Word count = 739
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)