Lion The Most Like A Stootan Essay

What does it take to be a Stotan? Does it take tremendous courage and brute strength? Or being head strong? A Stotan is a cross between a Stoic and a Spartan. Lion Serbousek is a swimmer on the swim team at the Frost High School. He has 5 best friends that he hangs out with all the time. All of them are Stotans in some way because they have gone through something tough. However, out of all of his friends Lion is the most like a Stotan. Lion is the most like a Stotan because he has gone through a lot emotionally and physically. Lion is most like a Stotan physically because he can take a lot of pain and he is very strong. During Stotan week while they were doing bear crawls, he made everyone go through the snow. When they had to go to the torture lane, he went willingly and sometimes more than he had to. He did a backflip in the water. He never complained about Stotan week when everyone was saying that they were hurting. This is how Lion was described in the novel; “

whenever there is tension Lion makes thing better by lightening the mood. For example, when Nortie and Jeff got done with their Stotan stories everyone was sad he lightened the mood by telling them the story about his pimple. When he went to the dance he showed up in a floor length fur coat, goggles, and pilot helmet. He has a seat belt on his toilet seat.When his parents died, he did not let grief pull him down he went on with his life. He lives on his own and manages perfectly. He showed what he thought about the racists papers, “ he took one look at the stack of papers… and put a match to them” (36). This demonstrates that Lion is not afraid to show what he feel about something. He did not care what people thought about him or if he got into trouble he did what he thought was right. He showed that he could do anything to get his point