1) "In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,
And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at
Benwood,
And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling
Steel,
Dreaming of heroes."
I think this means that they believe they we all become heroes one day in some way or another. The likely hood of this happening is very slim but it may be the only thing that makes them keep striving forward.
2) "When he walked through the halls of school during the season it wasn't as a proud gladiator, but instead he seemed enveloped in an almost painful shyness, his head ducked to the side and his eyes shifting furtively, fending off questions with one-word answers, especially hating it when people came up to him and asked, "Do ya'll think you're gonna win?""
I believe that the pressure people put on him is too much to bare and that he has begun to not like football anymore but he keeps playing because he feels like he has an obligation to the team, school, and community. When someone asks him about an upcoming game he despises the game more and more.
3) "This season he was leading the district in passing and had cut his interceptions down to almost none. A big game against the Rebels would be further vindication, further proof that he had what it took to be a college quarterback in the Southwest Conference."
I think that he feels as if football were the only thing he was good at and without it he would be nothing. He would loose the popularity (what little he had), and the respect from the community and the team.
P.S.-Re:Macayla Have you ever done something just for the popularity? I my self have not done something just because I thought it would make me more popular/give me more popularity. Sadly, many people in todays generation do however. I think that they need to realize being yourself will make you a lot more friends than you trying to be someone else or by acting different.
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