Gym Candy

I am currently reading the book Gym Candy by Carl Deuker. It's a book about a kid who wants to be an NFL player because it runs in his blood from his father, who almost made it but had some complications involved with character and he ended up being dropped from the NFL team that he played for. Mick is the main character who is striving to make it to the NFL, and will do anything out of his way to get him there, such as taking steroids. I have been reading this book for a good amount and I have been tracking down this character's archetypal journey. Many things have effected him kind of negative, but also positive too.

First off,many positive things have affected the character. Let's start off with the obvious in the book, one person who had a positive impact on Mick's life was his father. I say this because his father taught him a lot of things that made Mick into the great football player that he currently is right now. Without him Mick wouldn't know specific techniques that make him stand out from the rest. The fact that Mick's dad got kicked out of the NFL makes his dad even more willing for him to make his son get into the NFL. I think that he doesn't want him to see him end up as a "failure" as he did when he got into the NFL. I think Mick's dad also taught Mick about hard work and always trying your best, because he always is talking to Mick about there's someone better than you out there and you just have to try harder to be better than them. Also a positive event that affected Mick was when Matt Drager got kicked off the highschool team. This is a positive event because Mick worked his butt off in practice for the highschool in order to get the top spot and actually even get to play on the team at all. Yet since he was a freshman he always ended up not being able to start because Matt was older. Since Matt got kicked off for under age drinking and untolerable character from the new coach. Mick can actually play. This is positive because it made him work even harder to prove himself, and show his skill.

Secondly, negative things that affected him was when he got his new trainer Peter. I mean Peter did make him stronger and better, but it also did a lot of bad things for him in the end anyways. Peter persuaded Mick to take steroids. This i bad for Mick because it caused a lot of things. One common thing was depression from it, taking steroids can give you depression that feels like a black hole and negative things just keep on going through your head. It also made Mick focus on football it made him forget about his childhood that he's missing out on because he's so focused on weight lifitng that he's forgeting about it. He needs to remember his childhood.

In conclusion positive things that affected him were his dad and getting to play. Negative things were taking steroids and meeting Peter. I think my character learned more about hardwork and actions prove something. It taught me the samething,and I also learned to always take action.