Author's Note: I
wrote this as a character development piece on Trent and how he got his life
back on track after being around violence for as long as he can remember, and
he does it through basketball.
25% percent of kids failing school say
it's because they have a bad home life, this could apply
to Trent from the book Night Hoops. Whether it is his mother getting caught for the use of
marijuana, or another crime committed by his brother, it seemed he could never
get away. That reflected on him too, because he had no one to look up to but
them, and that made him think it's ok to be a criminal. At 15, he already
had a criminal record. He didn’t want to live this way, but he couldn’t find
anything to keep him away from his family long enough to figure out how to turn
his life around.
School was hard, but he had one passion that never changed;
basketball. The varsity team tryouts were just around the corner, and Trent
wanted in. Sure enough, he played well both sessions of the tryouts, and made
the team first string. Trent became a better teammate, and his team became his
second family. Overall, he became a better teammate and a better kid, and that
had a positive influence on his family and friends, and with that, it helped
their team win.
Throughout the story, Trent grew as a basketball player and
as a teammate. He found that his teammate lived down the street from him, so he
played basketball with him every night throughout basketball’s long
season. Basketball kept Trent out of trouble and turned his attitude
about life around and ultimately made him a better person and will make him a
better man for the rest of his hopefully long life
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