Friday Night Lights

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The name of the author who wrote this very interesting book, “Friday Night Lights,” is H. G. Bissinger. Bissinger was a newspaper editor in Philadelphia, after a while he went to Oddessa to meet the members of the 1988 Permian Panther football team. Incredibly enough for the next four months he was with them through every practice, meeting and games. It was almost as if he joined the team, because he was there with them no matter where they went. He also started to write a book about this team, which went through many good and bad times during that period of time.
The other main character in this text was Boobie Miles, since Bissinger paid a lot of attention to him, and a little less to the other characters. The author describes many things about his family: what happened, when it happened and how it happened. But the main idea that the author is trying to make in this text, is to show how America represents itself. He does this by choosing a high school football team. Since football plays a big role in American society the author chose to write about it. He described dreams and accomplishments that that football team had, and in essence America also had.
These dreams and accomplishments were achieved by Boobie, who was one of the greatest players on the Permian High School football team. His childhood affected him very much, in fact it was the determining factor in his success today. He was raised “back in a tiny town that looked like all the other tiny towns that dotted the plains like little bottle caps, back in the place the whites liked to call Niggertown” (Bissinger, 58).
There was a lot of racism in these little towns. His uncle L.V. Miles described this little town as very terrible. And this was true, because “the only way he could to go into a restaurant, if at all, was through the back” and this was only because he was black (Bissinger, 59). Another example of racism was displayed when he was not ...