Joshua Davis Mrs. Ruffolo Literacy 12 February 2024 Steroid shapes identity Identity, shapes who you are and what people know of you for. In Gym Candy by Carl Deuker, Mick Johnson is a high school student who plays football. Mick's whole life revolves around football, He is always practicing to be the best cause he always has to win but one day Mick falls behind and Mick goes to the only thing to help him get ahead. Mick's experience with steroids affected his social life and emotional life because he struggled to keep his friends and struggled with depression. When Mick took steroids, he lost his ability to control emotions and sometimes lost control of his body and couldn't stop his anger. When Mick started taking steroids, he was told he might not have full control …show more content…
I grabbed Diver by the shoulder and pinned him against the locker. (Deuder 164 ). This helps lead to proving my claim because Mick never used to get angry like that and he started disliking Russ a couple of weeks before this. He kept getting mad at Russ thinking he was not funny and after this, it was the last straw he did something to intimidate Russ and scare him. Before this Mick started taking XTR and he knew the consequences and the risk of taking it and knew he was unable to control his anger during this play, he was running and he slowed down and the guy caught him and got the ball and there was a touchback” The rage took over. I knew that the play was dead, that it was a touchback, that he couldn't run the ball out of the end zone. I knew those things, but I leveled him anyway”. This leads to my claim that Mick couldn't control his anger and then he hurt someone on purpose when the play was dead. This happened to Mick earlier, but he was far enough away to control his anger and try not to do anything dumb about