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Alfred Brooks The Contender

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How can a main character help an audience see another person’s perspective? The main character in The Contender by Robert Lipsyte, Alfred Brooks, is hanging out with the wrong crowd and after his crowd tries to break into the store where he works they turn on him. Then he find Mr. Donatelli’s gym because he wants to be able to defend himself. In the end, he begins fighting other boxers but Donatelli thinks he doesn’t have the “killer instinct” that he needs to be a professional boxer. Alfred Brooks and I compare and contrast in the areas of being small, determined, and easily peer pressured. One way I can relate to Alfred Brooks is we are both scrawny. In chapter two, the book describes Alfred as scrawny or thin as he is getting out of bed.

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