"End Zone"

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This paper summarizes and analyzes the novel "End Zone" by Don DeLillo, examining how DeLillo, using wit and sarcasm, explains what nuclear war and college football have in common.

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"Harkness, the narrator of this morality tale, played football because he was expected to become the sports hero his father could not be. Like he tells the reader, his failed father had ambitions for him, just to prove that the seed was not impoverished. Harkness, himself, was a transfer from the University of Miami, and we immediately notice something odd about him. He enjoyed reading about nuclear war and the deaths of millions. There was something he himself could not understand, even as he went to the library to get more books on the subject of nuclear war. When he left Miami and went home, his Father persuaded an influential Michigan State alumnus to get him into that University. The point was, then, to escape the draft. But, when he convinced the MSU people he could follow orders, he was accepted, played football, and was involved in a vicious tackle that killed an opposing player."

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