Independent reading : Running loose

So far its about a football team in a small town in idaho. And a boy named loiue is on there. And recently got the ''best'' girlfriend at the school. everyone has a cursh on her. Well the whole town is into football so on game days everything closes up early. One guy on the team is racist to blacks because his dad got beat up by a few (whole team is white). The coach even calls black people negros. Well on this other team theres this black guy and they plan to hurt him because hes good. And they dont want to loose. So the racist guy slams him real hard onto the bench and almost killed him.So louie gets real mad and quits the football team because of him. Louie has 4 fake teeth in the front of his mouth because of baseball incident in his fresh man year.

Answers to final post

1.I agree on what hes standing for. And i think it was smart for him not to go back to the school after he won.Either way he didnt like being treated wrong and it was something he didnt like. No one can force you to do something. And i agree strongely on his decisions.


2. No, i think that its ok to sing or hum the anthem.For his teacher to purposely kick him out every morning for that i think is dumb. Hes doing what he think is right. This is a free country

3. My favorite character i think is actually both of his parents. Mr and mrs. Malloy because at sometimes they can be so clueless on whats going on.But sometimes really concered like even though phillip won he refused to go back to the school. And they argue with each other bout' it.

4.I think this book had its ups and down. Like i think the whole point like only humming and getting in trouble was pointless. And their should of been something stronger. But i like the whole debate choice from the author. And it makes you think deeper into the content.