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Choosing The Best At Football In Virgil Ganz's Shooting Star

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If you had to choose what is more important would you pick your life over being the best at football? This book teaches you about the world and the bad decisions you can make to ruin its a great book to read. In Shooting Star a young football player named Jomo is trying to be the best at the game. He tries different things to make him better, one thing he had tried was drugs. After he learned its made him play like a pro he became a rising star on the football team. Getting the team to question how he became so good. Jomo is angry and frustrated throughout the whole book to the point where he tried to commit suicide. In the book I had learned a lot of things you don't always have to be the best at a sport. “Jomo I have your steroids you asked for” said, Virgil Ganz. Virgil is the drug dealer who is supplying Jomo with steroids. When he first started to take the steroids he didn't like them, he knew the outcome would be worth it. After a week of him taking the drugs he feels he is improving very fast at his skills and ability to play the best in football. Jomo had forgot that steroids had side effects that made him very sensitive and frustrated with himself. He wanted to be even more powerful so he takes more and more steroids. Whats worth more, life or high school football. …show more content…

“Jomo I know what you’re doing” said, Jayson. Jayson is Jomo best friend who has been watching him closely lately. Jayson had figured out why he was playing to good during games and practices. He tells Jomo how he is risking his whole life and its not worth it. Jomo thinks he is trying to make him worse at football because Jayson is an all star player. Jayson goes on telling Jomo how he can end up getting himself killed over this. Jomo doesn't listen and keeps taking drugs while Jayson just can

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