Hoop+Dreams+Essay

Hoop Dreams Essay For the past few weeks our class has been watching the movie Hoop Dreams. Now our class is comparing and contrasting the main characters. we were studying mach madness and we decided to watch the movie because it is about two boys with the dream to play in the NBA players. the movie shows them from 8th grade to college, also it will show how William Gates and Arthur Agee have to work hard to go to school. Arthur Agee, a main character faces many struggles in his school days. One of his many struggles are that he can not afford to pay for high school, so he dropped out and went to Marshall High School. Another one of my many struggles are that he has to get all A and still go to summer school. After a while he started he would just make it and stopped working hard. William Gates ,the other main character, also finds many difficulties in his early life. one of those many difficulties were, going to school and providing for his daughter. Also he struggled to stay on track in school. One of his main struggles are he had knee surgery, this made him miss a whole season. The main characters have many things in common. For example both of them had there dads leave the family. Also they had the same dreams. Also sometimes worked hard in school. The main thing they have in common is they both love basketball. The documentary Hoop Dreams shows the main character try to make their dreams come true, but the thing i learned most was that you have to work to make your dreams come true.