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Rucker Park Setup - Research Paper

Rucker Park Setup

This novel was written by Paul Volponi, published in 2007, and is a must read. It takes place in the summer time in New York. The book is told all at a championship game, The Rucker Park Basketball Tournament, and gives flashbacks of events and memories of the various characters.
Mackey, the main character, is about to play in the championship basketball game; something he’d only dreamt of. His best friend, J.R., had been killed days before and was still on his mind. Guilt filled his head because he felt that it was his fault for the death of his dear friend; in reality, the person responsible for the death is the one who sponsors the team: a rapper by the name of J-Greene. The ...

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of all this tension, J.R.’s dad, Stove, is the referee at this game and isn’t fond of Mackey at the moment. In the end, Mackey tells everyone what he had witnessed and confesses to his bribery acceptances.
This book teaches about responsibility and the importance of honesty. It focuses on making decisions that may not always be the best, but should still be done because they are right. I look at the sport of basketball completely differently now after reading this book. (I hate it even ...

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Added: 5/1/2011 06:58:01 PM
Submitted By: gjktudor
Category: Book Reports
Type: Free Paper
Words: 313
Pages: 2

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