Short Story Of Jimmy: The Elite Basketball Player

Lamar Carter known to all as, Vince Carter, was born on January 26.1977 in Daytona Beach, FL. Carter became an extraordinary leader at a young age. Carter used his talent to gain fame and fortune so that he could give back to his community and the less fortunate.

In the poem Ex-basketball Player, by John Updike, Flick Webb, a man who use to be a star basketball player, lets his talents go to waste as he now leads an unhappy life as a gas station attendant. John Updike uses a critical tone to emphasize that the present excels the importance of the past.

The poem tells the story of the life of the former high school basketball standout, Flick Webb and his fall from grace and fame. The speaker takes us on a journey through Flick’s life, beginning with the main street in town, developing to Flick’s fall from fame to his lowly job, and then ends by telling us of his menial daily habits. He was once the best basketball player in his area. However, he has since his fall from grace he is now just a lowly gas attendant who checks oil, and changes flat tires for a living.

Remember that boy in high school that was the star of the basketball team? He still holds most of the records for the team. He scored more points than anyone else in the school’s history. He never studied much because he was an athlete. His basketball skills were going to take him places. But high school ended and there are no more games to be played. Where is that former all-star now? In his poem “Ex-Basketball Player,” John Updike examines the life of a former high school basketball star. Flick Webb was a local hero, and he loved basketball. He never studied much in school or learned a trade because he was a talented athlete. Now years later, the only job Flick can find is working at the local gas station. He used to be a star, but now

Trying to make ends meet, he turns to selling drugs. By the time Jimmy finds love ones more and decides to settle down tragedy occurs. Trying to escaping from a drug bust at a friend’s house his attempts end up with a conviction for murder. Due to his illiteracy, Jimmy couldn’t read the false accusations he never committed.

Throughout his life Jimmy found passion for poetry. Poetry became a big part of his life, he found out that it helped him escape his harsh reality of being in prison. “Poetry became something to aspire to live up. It informed how I saw the world and purpose to it.”pg (5)

I can't do the splits which was my ultimate goal. I can still do some

Around the same time Jimmy started grade school, the Great Depression started. The depression caused his family's grocery store to close down. With all the money he had saved up, he was able to buy more land and was able to get a job at a insurance and

Lebron James is the MVP (Most Valuable Player), for the Cleveland Cavaliers. He lead the team to the championship in basketball and won it all. Earlier that year Lebron came back to Cleveland Cavaliers from the Miami Heat with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. Why leave when you have a big 3 on your team? He said he wanted to go home for his last few years of basketball. If you ask me I think he'll be in the league for at least more 5 years. Lebron is seventh on all time scoring 200 point over Shaquille O'Neal.

(Jimmy was only five years old ). As a child not raised in a nuclear family, Jimmy was disregarded by his mom and dad which shape his adulthood. Jimmy would only solve his problem by relocating to a new place to fit him, however, all of his attempts only lead his into trouble. At the beginning, Jimmy set most of his time in an orphanage, later in a detention center, and eventually spend a few years  in

Jimmy’s a complex character who, unlike his parents and schoolmates, fits into the category of “words people”. In this form of society, to be a words person is considered to be one of the most disgraceful traits an individual can have. It is academically important to fall in to the “numbers people” category because they are the individuals who create new products that will make the most profit. A numbers person could not care less about proper grammar or passion. A numbers person acts almost robotically in nature with little consideration of “how far is too far”. Being a words person, Jimmy understands the passion and beauty that once made the world a spectacular place to live in. He has the wisdom to understand that “When any civilization is dust and ashes… art is all that’s left over… meaning-human meaning that is- is defined by them”, (Atwood 167). Unfortunately, his parents don’t feel that way. In fact, his parents, for the most part, are absent from his life. His mother and father very rarely ever show any kind of real emotion towards Jimmy, “leave daddy alone. Daddy is thinking. That’s what they pay him for, he has no time for you,” (Atwood 20). This is partly due to them

Every great and not so great athlete have gotten to the peak of their career not just from their skill but from the help of their agents too. For example Julio Jones, the 6’3 220 pound wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons, who has had a total of 7,610 receiving yards and a total of 497 catches since 2011. He went to Foley high school in Foley Alabama. He then attended Alabama state university. He was 6th overall in the draft to the Atlanta Falcons in 2011. But like I said he wouldn’t have been able to do everything he has done without is agent Jimmy Sexton. Jimmy Sexton is a football agent with 54 clients. He has 842.7 million dollars’ worth of contracts, he does make all the money but he get a piece of all those contracts which is still a

Knowles crafts the story from Gene Forrester’s mature, adult perspective as he looks back on his distressed experience at the Devon boarding school. While at the school, the insecure Gene befriends his roommate, Phineas, who is athletically superior but academically inferior to Gene. Phineas leads Gene to do many activities against school rules, but because of Phineas' uncanny ability to talk his way out of punishment, the pair never suffer the consequences of their actions. As the novel and their friendship progresses, it becomes clear that Gene envies Phineas' athleticism and the charm

Within Hollywood’s movies depiction of drug addiction, many have failed to represent all true aspects that come along with such lifestyles. The movie, The Basketball Diaries, is based off a novel Jim Carroll wrote from his own diary entries. As a teenager growing up in the sixties, Carroll reveals his progression of drug abuse which eventually leads him addicted to heroin.Heroin is a white powder derived from morphine found in opium. It is commonly prescribed as a painkiller, but is also a popular street drug.The director casted Leonardo DiCaprio as Jimmy, and concentrates on creating the character as a stereotypical drug abuser. DiCaprio’s most captivating scene is when he is going through heroin

“Tommy wake up Gage and Henry just pulled up and you have practice in 40 minutes” mother said.