"Friday Night Lights"

Book Review # 117637

English > Analysis
Literature > American

An analysis of the theme of the American Dream as depicted in the novel "Friday Night Lights" by H. G. Bissinger.

1,938 words () | 1 source | MLA | 2009 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper summarizes and reviews H.G. Bissinger's novel, "Friday Night Lights". The paper describes the backgrounds of each of the book's main characters, as described by Bissineger, and then concludes with a brief description of what happens to these characters at the end of the story.

From the Paper:

"L. V. Miles rescued his nephew "Boobie" Miles from a life of poverty and discrimination that he himself had endured when he was growing up in "Niggertown." L.V had no contact with whites except during the summer when he played summer league baseball. He went to a colored school and swam at the colored swimming pool. He played at the colored park. He played basketball at Bethune colored high school. His mother was buried in the black cemetery. Of course, he remembered cross burnings. The one aspect of this dismal life that kept him going while he lived in Crane, Texas, was sports. In 1961 and 1962 the basketball team at Bethune was the Class B state champion of Texas for "colored" schools. The white folks in town went to Niggertown to see it. L.V. had been on the team. "