Kwame Alexander The Crossover Essay

Introduction
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander is about two twin basketball phenoms named Jordan (JB) and Josh Bell (Filthy/narrator), they will have their emotions tested by problems ranging between relationships and a loss in the family.
In this companion book you will find out why it is important to keep your closest relationships in check because you can lose them over the smallest things.
“Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.”
-Hanya Yanagihara

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Filthy and Jordan’s relationship has changed due to JB getting a girlfriend. Filthy states that they eat lunch together everyday. He also says that they normally walk home together after practice but now they don’t because he has a girlfriend. As Filthy sits at the lunch table waiting for JB, he soon sees him, “strut into the cafeteria with Miss Sweet

Basketball Rule #2 (pg.51) “(Random text from Dad) Hustle dig, grind push, run fast, change pivot, chase pull, aim shoot, work smart, live smarter, play hard, practice harder”, this correlates because at a practice a couple pages later his coach has them do sprints and he says, “The winner doesn’t have to practice today” He is in the lead and he says, “ I let him win and get ready to practice harder”

In basketball rule #10 it show how Filthy deals with the loss of his father, “Basketball Rule #10 A loss is inevitable, like snow in winter. True champions learn to dance through the storm.”This shows that even though that his father died he knows that what happens, happens and a champion knows how to overcome that loss. It also says champions dance through the storm, which means that champions know how to make the best out of the worst situations. Those are not the only examples of symbolism in The