Gym Candy

   Mick Johnson wanted to be the starting running back on his football team from the moment he started playing football at only four. Mick was raised thinking that his father was an amazing  football player who played for the NFL, but later realizes he did not get the full story. He vows never to make the same mistakes his father made.In junior high Mick starts to really gain speed and agility, but finds he is not as strong as he would like. He starts to lift weights and soon starts to take steroids. At that point in the book the side effects start to really effect his life. For example he wants to go swimming in a pond with these girls hes with but when he takes his shirt of he is starting to grow man boobs and getting a lot of acne on his back.

   This to me was a very good example of kids being put in a situation where they rely on steroids. He wanted to be the best and he thinks the only way for that to happen is for him to start taking steroids. This is not good that in order for people to succeess in a sport that they think they have to take steroids. This is a ridiculous thought and is not true at all.

Overall I think the fact that in sports today people think in order to succeed you need to take drugs to make yourself stronger is pretty ridiculous. And it shows what kind of society we are in today that people would look up to people that do that.

Raiders Night pt 2 *spolier Alert*

     So I just finished my book Raiders Night and the ending was very scary and unbelieveable. The player (chris) that in the beginning was getting bullied and pushed around finally couldn't take it anymore. He showed up to the locker room during an only players meeting and he came with a gun. He was going crazy and wanted to shoot Ramp and kill him because of the hell he put him through. This shows how bullying can affect someone so much to the point where the go insane. 
     Chris kept trying to get in touch with Matt, but Matt could not face him. He doesn't know what he should say or do, and he really doesn't want to do anything. He wishes the whole mess would just go away. It's pretty clear to see that the coaches and even his dad know that something happened on Raiders Night which is what made Chris so mad in the first place. It's also pretty clear that they don't want to know all of the details because they want the best for the football program.
     Matt knew at the end he could have prevented any of this from happening if he just stood up and took the role of a captain and helped matt but he didn't. But in that locker room Chris knew he could never shoot someone else, so he tried to shoot himself but Matt saved him. 
     At the end Matt told the police everything about what Ramp did and how it affected Chris and he took his role, and did the right thing.