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Coach Carter is a great book that teaches responsibility, dedication and the love of a family. Coach Carter's team did not get along with each other, care about academics what-so-ever, or even understand their own self worth. The mindset and dedication of one coach to turn this team around changed the lives for all of these players. Making the athletes understand that getting their education was one of the most important factors in their lives, even more important than basketball, was his main goal. Coach Carter taught this team to make sacrifices, work together and understand what was really important in live. They learned to look out for one another and not leave any one of them behind. Coach Carter ends up having a winning, successful season and a high graduation rate . He achieved his goal of helping these young men turn their lives around. ( )

I think that this book teaches how one person can change the perspective of others and how they think about things. This book talks about how the basketball team doesn’t get along and how they have ruff lives and how some of theme have to deal to make a living and how others have a baby on the way. I think that I would recommend this book because it could not only teach but show someone what one stranger do to help someone when they are down or they don’t always make the right decisions. What I liked about this book is that they all at first hated the coach and that they didn’t agree with what he was doing to theme, by him telling theme that they need to show up to there classes and how they must maintain a good average. It shows that he really did try to help theme to successfully get good grades and at the same time help theme with there sportsmanship. It showed that he wasn’t going to let theme fail and that he was getting attached to theme. I also liked when after a while Cruz(one of the players) gave up on basketball and then decided to hustle and deal drugs, till one night he saw something that he never thought would ever happened. His uncle got shot right in front of him and he had to see everything. After that he went to the last person I would ever think he would go to he went to his coach’s house and his coached was shocked with what he was seeing. Of course the coached helped him till the next day. That’s when Cruz decided to region the basketball team and play, but the coach told him he had a lot of warm-up’s to do and then he started to do theme but it was to much for him to do in one week. At the end he didn’t finish on time and then his team mattes helped him. At the end they win all there games and they all learn new stuff and get to like there coach. ( )