Friday, April 20, 2012

The Shoes That Changed Every Thing


      
Just think running up and down a sleek wooden floor dribbling a basketball, shooting and passing the ball to your teammate. Well in the book “Red-Hot High-tops” that exact thing happens to a girl named Kelly Roberts, but whenever she gets the ball she always freezes up.
Until one day after a game something in her locker will change her life and the others around her. The readers will learn that it’s not what’s on the outside but it’d what’s on the inside

Kelly would play every game the same, she would freeze up. Then after a tough loss to another team, she finds a pair of red Nike high-tops. She asked her teammates around her to see if the shoes were anyone’s. They all said the same thing, so she figured she would
try them on. To her surprise they fit perfect! After that game she could not stop thinking about those shoes.

The next game she asked the coach to see if she could where them for the game. She said yes but she said that if she wore them she would have to make at least one bucket. Her teammates where a little jealous though that Kelly got to where her new shoes, and that the other girls didn’t get to where some of the new stuff they wanted to where.

She was put in the game halfway through the first quarter. She threw in the ball to continue the game. Just seconds later she was open at the other teams bucket. Her teammate passed her the ball. As she was waiting there with the ball. She thought then and there that she would freeze up. But then as she heard the pounding of basketball shoe behind her Kelly got enough courage to shoot the ball. As the crowd and her teammates watch the basketball fly off the backboard into the hoop.

The point of this story is that it’s not what’s on the outside it’s what is on the inside. I believe that Kelly learned that lesson in the whole basketball season.