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Friday Night Lights
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Compromising Education for Excellence on the Football Field H.G. Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights is a brutally honest account of the realities of West Texas high school football and its crazed fans. Bissinger paints a vivid portrait of how football commands and defines the city of Odessa. The town’s devotion and addiction to football is epitomized early on in the book when a fan says: “Life really wouldn’t be worth livin’ if you didn’t have a high school football team to support” (20). Football is a “quasi-religion” in Odessa, and for many, it provides more meaning than anything else in life. The fans honor their football players “. . . as gloriously as the Greeks honored their gods” (285). Nevertheless, in the midst of this passion and adulation, mania and obsession inevitably emerge. Unfortunately, too few people are able to recognize the true madness, racism, and misguided values that infuse the town. Bissinger reveals how Odessa’s extreme devotion to football skews their priorities, causing them to make detrimental sacrifices at the expense of other important aspects of their lives. One of the themes present throughout the book is the town’s compromising the value of education for excellence on the football field. Permian High School allocates its funds in a way which allows for the football team to prosper at the expense of the school’s true purpose, education: The cost for boys’ medical supplies at Permian was $6,750. The cost for teaching materials for the English department was $5,040.
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Title: Friday Night Lights
Words: 1226
Rating: None
Pages: 4.9
submitted by: bluejedi80
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