Robert Lipsyte

King. Descriptive language helps to create a picture in the reader’s mind. Authors can create descriptive language through narration or dialogue. In the novel The Contender, by Robert Lipsyte, the author uses descriptive language and dialogue to develop the characters and the setting. In The Contender, the author Robert Lipsyte uses descriptive language throughout the whole story. One example of descriptive language in the story is on page 47. It says, “The second sit up was harder than the first, and

“The Contender” by Robert Lipsyte was a great and inspiring story that should be read by all middle school students and above. “The Contender” takes place in Harlem, New York. Throughout the story, the setting are Donatelli’s gym, the street, the Epsteins, the boxing arenas and Aunt Pearl's house. Alfred Brooks is a high school dropout with the age of 17 and lost both of his parents and now living in his Aunt Pearl’s house. He then has a passion to become a great boxer one day. Alfred Brooks was

In the essay “Jock Culture” by Robert Lipsyte, the author explains the lifestyle of jocks and how there are two different types of people in the world. Lipsyte has very good points in his essay that the author mainly agrees with the essay but the author also believe there are few points that the author also disagrees with. The author believes that there is jock culture in today’s world. Although it seems like people are beginning to change. Jocks are not beginning to act like jocks anymore and people

give more funding to a “popular” sport over another, regardless of either team’s actual skill. Those on the ‘wrong’ side are treated worse than those star athletes in more popular sports, such as football or basketball. In “Jock Culture,” author Robert Lipsyte explores the effect of preferential treatment of athletes, its effect on society, and the multitude of ways he has observed as a sports writer. Likewise, author Brad Manning exposes his relationship with athleticism and the arts in, “Arm Wrestling

motivated to continue putting myself into deep holes and finding my way out along the way. Robert Lipsyte’s “Jock Culture” has helped me to decide what these qualities meant in terms of my place in society. His classification of Jocks: people who were “brave, manly, ambitious, focused, patriotic and goal-driven” and

Title- The Contender Author-Robert Lipsyte The contender is about a kid named Alfred who has dropped out of high school because he can’t fit in. His only friend James turned to drugs. So, Alfred started boxing to defend himself. He then gained confidence and learned how to defend himself. He had won his first two fights. He had lost his third fight and decided to give up because the sport wasn’t for him. He then thinks he has enough confidence to fit in and goes back to school. When he goes home

Passion or Death? A passion is something that makes you drive forward in life, but not something you want or that you are trying to get. In the novel The Contender by Robert Lipsyte, there is a high school dropout who does not know what he is going to do with his life while everyone around him is either reaching their goals or slowly dying. In The Contender people without a passion seem to die off and it is the same about people with bad passions. The high school dropout, Alfred is very lost and

How can a main character help an audience see another person’s perspective? The main character in The Contender by Robert Lipsyte, Alfred Brooks, gets beat up for something he didn't do. And lost things along the way like trust and a friend, but thought out the story he gained them back with also so much more. Is this essay i will compare and contrast me and Alfred, using three traits from the story, being responsible, compared to others, and being fearless. One way that Alfred and I are different

The contender is a young adult novel written by Robert Lipsyte. In the novel, Alfred brooks is a 17 year-old black high school dropout living in Harlem in the mid 1960s. His best friend, James and a group of gang members attempt to rob Alfred’s work, which is a grocery store; little do they know the store just installed a new alarm system. When they break in they trip the silent alarm. The cops show up and arrest James. Alfred is confused with the changes going on around him, so he starts training

Extremely Intense The book, Raiders Night by “Robert Lipsyte” was a very different book compared to other 9th grade books. If you go to the library, and pick any book off the shelf. I doubt you’ll find one involving drugs and steroids. At the same time it was a great book, I loved the intensity. For me it was very easy to relate in life, I was never the big guy that everyone knew. I was just there for football nothing else. Moving on… The raiders night was taken place in a town called Nearmont takes