Drew

**Raiders Night**

 This book is about a kids fighting in football.  Critic reviews: "Packs a wallop." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Riveting." - Publishers Weekly ( starred review.) "The alarmingly clear depiction of athletes trying to conceal hideous violence is reminiscent of that in Erika Tamar's //Fair Game////Endgame// (2006, both Harcourt)." a review writes. 

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**I choose this video because the tone of it relates with my book a lot. The book is about football and if you have not played football or known that football is physical, then to let you know it is very physical and hard music helps you get ready. Also the lyrics tie into the story a lot. " Come on and cut me down, You've gone as far as I'll go, Now you're crossing the line, And I am letting you know, Well here's your reaction”, ties into the story very well. I think it explains a lot of what Chris did and what happen to him. Ramp took it to far with Chris and Chris then gave him what he deserved. Ramp was jealous of him. When he kept antagonizing Chris to kill himself he did it. That is Chris’s reaction to what happened.



I choose this picture because it is of football players. This is a huge hit which shows that these kids are crazy. Matt plays very physical in the book. His dad keeps telling he is going to go into a Division 1 school. That is why i choose college football. I also choose this because it is about football. The whole book is about football and camp. What happened at camp was because one of the other players was jealous that there was a new player better then him. So Ramp when crazy on him because of it.



These 3 pictures all relate to the same thing mostly. They always were going out and partying after games. The whole team did. Matt also took a lot of Vicodin to help him with his pain. He also had a lot of pain and stressed out. He took them when he thought of Chris or something happened dealing with Chris to calm him down and help him out. The steroids were something almost every single person on the team used. Every used them and lifted to get huge. They injected them a lot, almost everyday. These drugs are the major drugs in the book that were used. Others they used were marijuana to help them chill out.**

1) "Shut up Ramp!"

2) "She has been having a hard time since my Dad died."

3) "Which way and where did he go?"

1)I pick this quote because it is a huge part in the book. It was said right before Chris shot himself. Chris was yelling at Ramp that he was going to f****** kill him. He was told by Ramp after a while to kill himself. That was when Matt dove to stop Chris, but he already pulled the trigger in his mouth. This is what Matt said to Ramp when it was happening. It is important because this whole book is about Chris and what has happened to him.

2) I choose this quote because in my opinion it means a lot to Chris. I am guessing that his dad meant a lot to him. He said he was killed in combat. I thought it was kinda hard and mean on the kid when Ramp mentioned something about his dad to. I think that made Chris feel horrible and maybe why he killed himself, to be with his dad or so he thought.

3) I choose this quote because it is when they are looking for Chris when he ran off after Raider Night. He slept in the woods. They searched for him for a few hours and quit hoping that they would find him in the morning. He then showed up at the bus the next morning and didnt ever once talk on the ride home or after he got off.