Nick DePompei
Mrs. Brown
Raiders Night
Robert Lipsyte
Fiction
Lipsyte, Robert.Raiders Night. New York: HarperTempest, 2006.
Raiders Night is a novel about big time high school football, and many of the stereotypes that follow it. The novel starts out with Matt, the star player, and many of his teammates receiving steroids from a trainer at the gym. All of the players “juice”, because they think that the steroids will make them a better team, and help them finally win the conference. Many of the players face pressures from overbearing parents, and people in the city. Then, everything that can possibly go wrong does as result of a hazing ritual. The main characters in the story are many of the seniors on the football team. They go through lifting and the hazing ritual together, where they haze younger members of the team and transfers. The story really focuses on one character, Matt. Matt is the star of the team, and everyone thinks he’s perfect. What many people don’t know is that he can never play well enough for his dad, he takes steroids, and he is getting sued for inappropriately hazing a team member. The setting for the text is important, because it is a football crazed town. The players are pressured to win by everyone. Robert Lipsyte does a great job in writing this novel. What I like about his works are that they show the dark side of sports, not just all the glory.
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I would like to read this book because it's about football. It seems like an interesting book besides the fact that they all do steroids. Sports books always interest me so I think I would like this one.
I would definitely enjoy reading this book. The story is about High School football which has made a big impact on my life so I know i would like this one.
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