Zach Flowers
8th period
Mrs. Brown
3-16-2009
I also read the book Raiders Night by Robert Lipsyte, and I Agree with Nick that it was an intense novel that shows the darker side of high school sports. I thought that the author did an excellent job using imagery to describe his scenes. Descriptions like how Matt was so nervous while he was first taking steroids that it felt like it took hours for each bead of sweat to run down his neck. I also thought that it was important to give the players overbearing parents because I know from experience that parents always think that their child is the best player on the field and expect nothing less from their kids. All in all the book Raiders Night was a good read because I could somewhat relate to it. I've never used steroid but I've been involved with high school sports my entire career and I know the pressures that go into playing, and this book displayed them well.
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D Brizzolara
Mrs. Brown
8th Period
3/17/09
Lipsyte, Robert. Raiders Night. La Porte: HarperCollins, 2007.
I also read Raiders Night, after Nick. I thought it was good, and i agree it was a more intense novel, but i disagree in the idea that that is what high school sports are really like. Not many athletes take steroids, and this book made it seem like taking them on the football team was as natural as practicing. I agree in that it was really descriptive and had many good scenes, but I thought it was a little unrealistic in illustrating high school sports. The author seemed to try and make it overly-dramatic to get his point across, and I thought it unnecessary, especially to someone who knows high school football, like myself.
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