Carl Deuker's Gym Candy

The Story Gym candy By Carl Deuker is a story about a kid named Mick Johnson and his friends Deshawn and Drew. The Point of view that Carl tells it in the third person. Mick is playing high school football at Foothill high school in his town Shilsole with his friend Deshawn and Drew. Mick is a running back and he is trying to beat the Senior Drager. Drager is a really good Running back and Mick wants to be better than Drager. So Mick starts working hard in the Gym to try to be better than Drager. One day When Mick is working out at the gym Drager decides to come in and hit Mick in the chest multiple times so that his chest is sore for the next few days. Micks father works at a radio station and his radio station just bought a fitness center in town and Micks father said that he gets to go workout their for free. Mick goes and works out at the fitness center and meets a personal trainer named Pete helps Mick get stronger by working out with him and then decides to give Mick some Gym candy. This so called gym candy is something that mick knows he shouldn't do but he wants to become better than Drager and be the best on the team. This Gym candy Mick is taking is called

We walked together to the field, the spikes on the bottom of my cleats clicking with each step on the parking lot pavement. A huge field with onlookers filling the bleachers on the far side came into view, lit up by the soft evening light. I spotted the girls on my team and my tired looking grey-haired coach. Me and my dad split up, me going to warm up with my team and my dad going to sit with the team parents. As I was passing with my teammates I watched the opposing team carefully. I observed how neat their drills were and how accurate their shots and passes were. They all looked so athletic and that really made me doubt myself. How was I supposed to prove to everyone that I was a good player if I had to play against a team this good? What if I mess up and the other team completely destroys my team? The loud buzzer that ended the warm ups sounded and both teams went to their side of the field. My coach called today’s starters out, and luckily he didn’t choose me. Relieved, I went to go sit on one of the hard metal chairs they provided for the teams on the sidelines. The chairs were uncomfortable but that didn’t bother me. I had other things on my mind. I sat shivering watching the events of the game

Wow! Carl Deuker really knows how to get a reader to sink into a book! Gym Candy is all about how the main character named Mick Johnson got through many trials to play football, even if the things that he had to do had a poor impact on him. Mick really showed me not to go down a lousy road, even if it leads to positive things later on, and to always stay true to what you believe in when it really matters.

Since the age of four my father has trained me to be the best baseball player I can be. Every single day my dad would practice with me. He would make me do drills and plays until I got them right. Due to my father’s commitment of making me a great baseball player, we won three championships: two in Little

The setting of the novel is in present day in Seattle, Washington. The main character of the story is Mick Johnson. Mick’s father was a failure as an NFL football player and now looks to Mick to pick up his dreams as

    Mike Winchell,Permian’s starting quarterback, strived to make his father proud. His father, Billy Winchell, had been in an oil accident that “Had cost him his leg,” and eventually his father leg go,all too soon for Mike(Bissinger,73). Mike’s fathers death at 13, combined with his parents split-up when he was 5, forced Mike to grow up at a very young age. Billy and Mike had a very strong father-son relationship,and his father assisted in coaching Mike the sports that he played; Billy was a very demanding and harsh,but compassionate instructor, guiding Mike through his baseball and football career. Billy was very leaneate in certain charastics of raising his son,but also consequential in other aspects,insisting “He had to go to college,there could be no two ways

I have to make a play, this isn't for just me. The ball is in my hands it's my throw to make, but the throw will depict the end score for my team. In the back of my head I think of this just like any other day, playing catch with my dad in the backyard. Him still being my coach yelling at my about the right footwork and the right angle of my release. I look up in to see the clock running, I snap the ball and everything explodes, the silence of the second before is gone. Pads hitting each other, my brothers on the line working as hard as they can to get me that extra second in the pocket. My wide receivers on the strong side are running there hardest, even though they know there not going to get the ball. The main wide receiver on the weak side runs his route. With the pocket collapsing I chuck the ball deep to my receiver. The throw felt unbelievable, like when you take a test and feel like you know every answer on it. The wide receiver catches the ball and walks into the endzone. My heart is racing like never before. The game is over and we won but I know that my dad will have something I need to improve upon. It is just in his nature to always see improvements even in the best

the expectation that the means to achieve goals is to work harder than others.” (McGraw−Hill,

If people do not cheat, it will put more of a stress on determination and hard work. A truly driven human being is hard to come by. Nothing is more satisfying than completing a well desired task the right and fair way. This is the message the movie is striving to convey.

Next season in his sophomore year he sat out four games with a high ankle sprain. Before declaring himself eligible for the 2007 National Football League draft, he missed seven games with a broken collarbone. Tragedy struck again before his NFL Scouting Combine workout his half brother was fatally shot. He performed well, although the tragedy and was selected seventh overall by the Minnesota Vikings.

Mike’s death was not his own fault since they probably shouldn’t have been practicing during a thunderstorm. This was apparent to the parents of the football team. They decided to have a meeting at the Fisher’s house to discuss this topic. On page 56, Paul’s mother says, “‘ Let’s make sure he’s the last one we lose!’” when trying to convince the coach to switch practice times.

For Andrew Hawkins, he remembered how tough it was when he was a young boy. He decided that it should not be that way for these kids. He recalls being raised by his mother with other kids in the house. He details how his mom put all of them through private schools, as reported by Pro Football Weekly.

Mike Johnson is Mick’s father. He taught Mick everything that he knew from football. Mike was a phenomenal high school athlete, and just as good at college. He was expected to tear the NFL up however, Mike blew up in the NFL he was skipping practices and even getting in fights with other players. He got

Hard Candy is one of those few films that was undeservingly sitting on my Hulu queue for about 4 months until it expired. I like to think that the reason this occurred was because I’ve always been quick to dismissed movies available to stream on Hulu simply because I’ve found that their quality of movies has always been a couple of tiers below the likes of Netflix, HBO Go and even Amazon Instant Video. However after just watching this film I realized that particular reason of why I kept putting it off was completely invalid. For starters going into this film I clearly, doubted Ellen Page’s ability as an actress to go completely off the rails in this film. Being that Hard Candy is a psychological thriller and that I’ve only seen a limited body of work from Page in 3 other films (Inception, X-Men The Last Stand, and Days of Future Past). Of which she obviously was not casted to play as menacing of a character like Hayley Stark in this film.

For example by making work special other people are going to want to take over your work. However this is incorrect, because this method actually teaches laziness. According to Scott Francis, in the article “Taking the Easy Way Out Instead of Doing the Hard Work”, he states, “It’s tempting to take shortcuts or the path of least resistance. But beyond being lazy, it can also seriously undermine your recruiting goals and your reputation.” Francis shows that taking the easy way can result in serious trouble. Later in life people will stop working, trying to find the easy way out. The problem with this is there isn’t always an easy way out. In Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom tricks people into whitewashing for him by making the job special and hard to do. Tom tells people that it has to be done in a very certain way so other people will find it interesting. After Tom operates his method he goes away and plays with toys. If Tom will never work he will become lazy and immature. In my life, these experiences have happened. When I was younger I would try to make it so that counting numbers was fun. Many people wanted to try to attempt my work at a price. After they stopped paying I procrastinated my work at school because of laziness, and I had trouble keeping up. As shown above, looking for an easy way out for work is not the answer, because this practice