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.
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