Life is full of the unexpected, in fact, life is the unexpected. No matter who you are as long as your living, you live a life. For some people, life isn’t always full of roses and dandelions. Tragedy and tough times happens to even the best of us. In the T.V. series “Friday Night Lights” Jason Street, Matt Saracen, and Eric Taylor show us just a few examples of how they deal with the trials and tribulations of life that got dealt to them. Jason Street the star All American quarterback for the little community of Dillon Texas football team has it made. He has a bright future ahead of him and was going nowhere but up. During the very first game of the season Jason Street got a severe spinal injury, became paralyzed, and told he was never going …show more content…
Matt has his own struggles in life to deal with before that though also. Matt Saracen lives with his grandmother who has a bad case of dementia and memory loss. Since Matts father is in the army, he is off fighting in Afghanistan leaving Matt to be the only man around the house and take care of not only his self but everything and everyone else at a very young age to have such responsibilities. Matt Saracen begins football practice and struggles immensely. He looks like the doom and gloom and the end of the Dillon Panthers football team. The whole community and school had no faith in him and is constantly giving him a hard time and causing Saracen to have a big deal of stress to deal with. Saracen even has to start dropping classes just to get more practice for football, so the team didn’t recruit a star football player to come take his playing time. Even though he has a lot on his plate and life seems to be moving full fledge for him he continues to push through and take the cards he has been dealt and make the best out of the situation with hard work and …show more content…
This is his first year here as the head football coach and being the head coach in a community where football is everything and everyone is expecting state champions this year he has a lot of pressure on him. Coach Eric Taylor had the star team, great family, and a highly praised name in the Dillon community. When he loses his star player Jason Street his career and job gets put on the line and he has to start all over by building the team up from such a big loss. Everyone in the community is putting pressure on him and his family by telling him he might want to go ahead and pack his bags because with a losing season as he is having he won’t be welcome in the community much longer. With everyone in his ear telling him what to do and a team that is slowly falling apart and not being a team he has a big hurdle to get over that seems to be doing nothing but getting bigger. Even though he has a big weight to carry on his shoulders he has hope and keeps his head up by taking charge and doing his job as a football coach and staying true to himself. With some discipline and determination, he fights back and starts to regain his team being the light at the end of the tunnel for them and
2. What position is Coach Boone put into when he is told that he is appointed head coach of the football
He was later appointed head Coach over a winning white coach; he is reluctant to accept the position because a similar situation happened to him when a white Coach had been appointed over him in South Carolina. He finally accepts the head coach position with Support from the black residents who see him as a symbol of pride and admiration that is absent in their community.
Matt Fowler’s thoughts transform into revenge as a way of healing for his family. He plans the assassination of Richard Strout. After months of planning, Matt waits for Strout to get off work: “when Strout came around it alone [the building], [sic] Matt got out of the car, giving up the hope he had kept all night (and for the week) that Strout would come out with friends” (Dubus 112-113). Ironic symbolization: Matt Fowler didn’t really want to kill Richard Strout: however, he had to protect his family and avenge the murder of his son. One murder ultimately justifies the second murder within the mindset of Matt. The story concludes with not only two murders, but also with the insinuation of the second murder being justified by Matt and Ruth
Matt Dillon right from the start of "Loch invar" demonstrates that he has a rough hard personality. With his harsh quick responses to whomever he meets, to some extent makes him seem unfriendly and unsociable to whomever he is talking to. Throughout the three shows we see that Matt Dillon is a man that likes to stay to himself. He doesn't like to respond much to inquiries or comments; it seems like he picks his conversations carefully. For example, in the episode of "Paid Killer", Chester is worried and anxious that walking around at midnight with a full moon could possibly result in a fatality.
...he didn’t have resilience the book would have been very short. You can’t exactly have a protagonist thrown into a chaotic existence without them being able to withstand the lifestyle. Naiveté is an interesting considerably neutral trait. He is in youth through the book but this trait demonstrates how much he grows and learns. His desperation fueled his escapes to get out alive and determines how much he longs, craves, needs friends, family, ect. Remove a single one and you no longer have Matt. Of course there are innumerable traits that all contribute to make him up. The main idea is they make him up, as a person. Not as a drooling, morphine high, permanently damaged, primal mess of a clone that inhabitants of Opium are accustomed to, also not as a mere copy of El Patron. He’s a human being, which means he has qualities that define him just like any other person.
Meat head, dumb jock. These are just two of the many derogatory labels given to football players. Is it possible for me, a meat head, to hear the criticisms dealt to the sport of football? Is it possible for me, a dumb football jock, to understand and be objective about the issues raised in the book, Friday Night Lights? Yes, because I'm not the stereotypical football player like those described of Odessa, Texas.
He then proceeds to live his life in the mansion, all while developing an extremely close relationship with his bodyguard Tam Lin and his caretaker Celia who become the biggest parent figures in his life. For example, he was traversing mountains, hiding from farm patrol, and trying to survive the wilderness all on his own. Along the way, he could've died several times, but the thought of Celia and Tam Lin helped him push forward and make it across the border. For example, in this story, Matt has to survive the journey to cross Opium and into Aztlán.
The first day we got there we had started off so wrong by arguing. We weren’t doing well and we argued most of the time. Us as a team, we honestly made ourselves look bad in front of the coordinators and other teams that were watching us. The coaches had given us a real big pep talking about sticking together as a team to make us better. Although we didn’t think we needed it, it actually
Then there’s Matthew, he is one of the four peer helpers that Amy has her mom hire to help her throughout Senior year. But Matthew also his his own baggage that he carries with him. You see he has a mild case of OCD that makes him feel like terrible things will happen
There is no question that the love Matt had for Frank was the motivation to kill Richard Strout. The story ends with two physical killings and a moral death as well. Vengeance comes at a very high price, death.
Matt is no longer with us today because the men who killed him learned to
As a result of the Pye incident and Matt’s marriage to Marie, Matt didn’t go to university, with troubled Kate greatly. As a result, Kate ended up leaving Crow Lake to go to school, which led to her being isolated from her family. As a result, her close bond with Matt suffered.
As we read we learn she is very outspoken and strong willed, she always wants things to be her way. Mattie shows us a great example of being very independent at the age of fourteen, but after her journey does she truly change as a person? “I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life” (Portis 11). Mattie Ross goes on a journey to find her father’s killer with the help of two companions, Rooster Cogburn and Leboeuf. Leaving Fort Smith, they set out into the Indian Territory to track down Tom Chaney and seek revenge for killing Mattie’s father, she claims, “I would not rest easy until that Louisiana cur was roasting and screaming in hell!”
accomplished winning will take care of itself. In order to accomplish this task, Nick Saban also has to be a transformational leader to his team every year.
However, Matt Fowler had different reasoning for his actions. After burying his twenty-one year-old son who was just on the cusp of graduating college, he finds that Strout, his son’s murderer, has been released on bail pending trial and until then he has resumed his normal life. Watching his wife not only mourning the loss of their son, but also having to see the killer in daily activities, has caused a mental and emotional strain on their life. The affect on Fowler’s family that Strout is walking around free and seemingly unconcerned is one of the main reasoning that is posed when Fowler and his friend Willis T...