Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Element of the Novel
- Setting
- Time: present
- Place: The middle school
- Characters
- Russle
- Very smart
- dislikes sports at first
- Owen
- Athletic
- envies his brother
- Mom
- Wants her sons to get along
- Is proud of her kids no matter what they do
- Dad
- wants both of his sons to play basketball
- Likes competition
- Title Athlete vs Mathlete
- Author W.C. Mack
- Main Conflit
- Conflict: Russell has to go to basketball
tryouts even though he stinks at
basketball
- Cause: The basketball couch thinks Russell will be
good at basketball because he is so tall so he makes
him tryout
- Theme
- Message: things work out better when
you get along with each other
- How brought out in book: At first Owen does not like Russell being good at
the sam thing as him but when he accepts that Russell is just as good as
him the basketball team is better than ever!