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Hoop Dreams Essay Bryson Mitchell

I am going to tell you about a documentary we watched Hoop Dreams. We are going to compare and contrast both main characters, William Gates and Arthur Agee. Both characters had lot’s of trouble in their lives but they both had lot’s of the same trouble too. I will write about that to. It is about two boys who were watched from eighth grade until college.

ARTHUR Arthur lives with his mom, dad, sister and brother but his dad leaves his family in ninth grade. One day when Arthur was playing at a park, he met a guy named Earl Smith who helped him get into a school called Saint Joseph. Arthur wasn’t trying hard in class in result of that he got kicked out but most of why he couldn’t was because his parents couldn’t pay for school because it was a Christian school. After he was kicked all he did was at ball at the park. His dad came one day and they played one on one, then his dad went to a corner and bought drugs. Now that Arthur could not go to St. Joseph he went to a public school called Marshall Metro. When arrived at the front doors there would be a guard he would have to show him this card to get in. In class he wasn’t a hard worker you could tell because he would chomp on gum in class. When the teacher would ask him a question he would just say I don’t know. When Arthur graduated from Marshall Metro he didn’t have good enough grades to go to a good college so he went to a community college called Mineral Area Junior College. Then when he graduated from Mineral Area he went to Arkansas State and he did not like that choice in that college.

WILLIAM The differences that William had were William grew up in the Projects. All he did at the Projects was play ball and watch people in the NBA on TV. When William was playing at the park, Earl Smith gave him a scholarship to go to St. Joes. William didn’t get kicked out or drop out, he got his h.s. paid for by a girl because he was so good at basketball. He started out at a 4th grade reading level and tried his hardest to get to a 9th grade reading level at the end of the year. Then he had great seasons except for his senior year. After he lost, his grades dropped but he already had a full ride to Marquette University. Then he visited his dad at the car repair shop he works at and his dad said, “Hey I’ll fix this car up and give it to you,” when Will sat in the car there was no steering wheel. Will has a daughter before he goes off to college at Marquette. Will dropped out of college then came back to get his degree.

Same Will and Arthur had lots of different things and lots of the same things that’s what this is about. As you’ve read you’ve hear that Arthur and Wills favorite sport is basketball because that is all they played. They also enjoy other sports too. Will and Arthur both have families but people in their families don’t make the best choices. Both boys live in inner city Chicago in not that nice of homes.

Conclusion Hoop Dreams showed me that you need to work hard so you can be successful. It showed how bad it is in inner city Chicago and that I am lucky not to live there. Both William Gates and Arthur Agee did not have their dreams come true to go to the NBA but they both worked to pass college.