You, My Dear Alphonse

I think that the mom should have got to know this kid more before she said all that about him because that could had made him feel bad about him self. Boyd I think felt bad at the end when Johnny's mom got made and thought he did something wrong. I only think that she was trying to be nice though and she just thought wrong about the kid. 

A Clean, Well-lighted Place-Hemingway (Movie)

I think that the director didn't make that well of a movie he left most of the important parts like the lighting. I think I lighting part was the most important because of how it tells how the man is. It tells a lot like how he doesn't have the best life in the world and that he is lonely because he is sitting in the only dark area at thr restaurant. 

I director could have made this a really good movie because of all the stuff and how you can now everything about because the story describes it well. It think that the movie could have been a lot better but they left out parts. 

A Clean, Well-lighted Place-Hemingway

Authors Note: I wrote about the 4 question for the story.

He uses the lighting well by saying how he sits in the back of the place in the only area where there is no light. By saying that it really describer the character and how he is. If he didn't say anything abut that then you wouldn't be able to figure out what this character is like and that is a big part on this story because if you don't know how the character is you will have a hard time understand the story. 

Trent Dawson

Authors note: This is a character development about Trent Dawson in Night Hoops.  

Trent is a boy that does have a good role model. His brother is the only person he has and his brother isn’t the best role model in the world. His brother has been to the Seattle jail many times. Trent does everything he can do to get in trouble. He also isn’t the nice kid around he is always getting in fights with kids and doesn’t really like anyone, but his brother. When his brother does sometime that can put him in jail for life Trent has a decision that he has to make that could be life changing.

Nick, Trent’s neighbor is always practicing basketball and Trent likes it just as much as any other kid that plays. Steven Clay one of Trent’s friends one day asks if him and Trent can shout on the court in Nick’s backyard and they said yes. At about 10 every night after that they were there shouting. Now Trent had to go and try out for the basketball team.

A few days later was basketball tryouts. Trent showed up that day for tryouts. Every kid there was shocked to see Trent there. Nobody even knew he liked basketball. He worked his best and Made the team, but there was one thing keeping him back from playing in the first part of the season was his grades. Trent didn’t try or do anything in school he hardly showed up for school. There were other things in his life also like him and his brother got caught for killing chickens in a trail. How was Trent going to fix what he was doing though?

Trent knew that he wasn’t going to play unless he shapes up. Trent and Nick start to become more of friends when they both start to play 1 on 1 at Nick’s and they also start to work on their grades because Nick’s aren’t the best either. They bout get there grades up and start to play on the team and when both Nick and Trent play they are really good and they can’t be stopped. Then the decision comes for Trent. Trent and Nick are playing basketball when Zach Trent’s brother comes up to Trent and says I got the stuff, but Trent making the right decision says, “I’m not coming, I’m playing basketball”. Zach leaves and goes off and that next day Nick is reading the news paper and its says that one of Nick’s friend has been shot by Zach. This is the decision that Trent has to make, he can either live and run with Zach or play basketball and live a normal life. Trent says that he is staying for the rest of the basketball season and then he is leaving.

The week of the championship game Trent doesn’t show up for school and he also doesn’t go to basketball which is big because he is there best play. Trent is there though, but not showing himself till half time. At half time Trent comes running out and everyone goes wild in the stands. Trent and Nick help win the game. Out playing the other team, but then the game ends. Trent and Nick are talking after everyone leaves the locker room about the game and  the Trent makes the decision of not leaving.

Trent has to make that decision and Trent handles it well and keeps playing basketball and keeps working hard and his school work and everything in life and becomes to a better person by being nice to others. Basketball really changed Trent and he really likes it to.