4th Quarter Blog#6

William proved to be a valuable commodity, but not Arthur. Coach Pingatore himself found funding fro William. Patricia paid for his tuition but not only that she proved a good paying summer job. But, to Arthur he did not get any funding and they locked him out of St. Joseph High School and addition the coach did not consider him at star material and that angered his parents and and delivered a huge blow to his self esteem. Later on William and Arthur were choosing college Arthur did not take all the right courses to take the ACT to go to Division 1 High School. Arthur had to go to Junior college in southern Missouri while William goes to a better college. Patricia gave William a tuition free ACT prep class to get all the required 18 on the ACT and got a scholarship to Marquette University.

My reflection on "Hoop Dreams" its inspiring to others because the characters have a dream and they want to achieve it so they practice and practice till they get better and even better. Who ever reads this they are gonna want to do a sport and never stop practicing After I read this book I played soccer way better because I believed in my self that can I do it. One time I wanted to do a soccer trick and I ended p failing but, now I know how to do it and I mastered it. Since Arthur and William were little kids they wanted to play in the NBA but they knew what they had to go through first is school, college and other thing and then play in a league. I really loved this book and so will you:).

The conflict of this book is about Arthur not going to the school that he wanted because of his ACT scores and did not took the right classes from them. I know this because it sates it int eh article, "Arthur did not take all the right courses to take the ACT to go to Division 1 High School." In addition it also states that, "Arthur had to go to Junior college in southern Missouri while William goes to a better college." This proves that the school was being more concern on William because he plays better and goes the school that Arthur wanted to go.