Plot of Interlopers

"The Interlopers" is a tail of two families who despise each other. It only grew when the Ulrich Von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym became the head of their household. It starts off with the two men hating eachother and out on a cold night wathing their own land making sure the other isn't on it taking their game. But then they meet in the night, just starring at each other. The author describes this moment like this, "The two enemies stood glaring at one another for a long silent moment. Each had a rifle in his hand, each had hate in his heart and murder uppermost in his mind." This just perfeclty descirbes the tension between the men.

But then the story takes a complete spin when a storm knocks a tree onto them and they're both stuck under it, helpless. This then just causes them to argue on who is going to be saved first and how they aren't going to help the other. This would probably be the climax of the story. When they become the most furious at each other. But then I think it hits them that this maybe the last moment they have alive. They actually share a drink together and resolve their problems between eachother and say if one of there backup arrives they would help the other first. But they actully get eatin by wolves before that happens, but they still worked out their problems and resolved the conflict between them. This stories plot is just a regular mountain plot where everything just builds up, like the families hating eachother then the two men meet, then the tree falls. Which leads to the climax of them fighting my stuck, but then is resolved and in this case they talk and share a drink at their last moment alive.

Looking for a New Book 

       I've finished my book and I'm looking for a new one. I've heard about the Divergent series which sounds really interesting. I've heard it's one of those science fiction books that involves a utopian like society and one person, in this case a girl, changes through her decisions. It sounds similar to the book The Giver, where a boy knows all the secrets and terrible things about his society that nobody else knows and he can't tell anyone. I still want to read it because I really like books like that because it's weird to see how each author describes a society that is "perfect" because each on describes them deifferently. Also it looks like they're making a movie about the book and I would like the read it before the movie.

Summary So Far

       I've read a little further in my book Playing for Knight. So far Steve has talked about his freshman year at Indiana University. He goes in deep on how hard of a program it is. He talks about the first practice at midnight on October 15th. Usually for basketball players that practice is the first one that kicks off the year and is usually a fun one where the coaches and players can talk and just play pick-up games. But thats not how it is with Coach Knight. Alford says, "Some colleges- Kentucky, Kansas, and a few others- celebrated October 15th with midnight scrimmages open to the public, but Coach Knight was a traditionalist. Practice meant work, no show biz." This really shows coaches determination towards the game. In the practice Steve asks all the players where coach is and they say he always shows up late and he walks in the gray door over there. So for the next 15 min of practice the players are constantly looking over there shoulder at that door.
 
       Once coach finally gets there every one lines up on the baseline and he demands them go to the film room. In there everyone has a notebook and actually has to take notes on previous games played. Steve actually just doodles in his book and doesn't really pay any attention. Then They go back out onto the court and spend the rest of practice working on screens. Steve is actually tired from the fast pace of practice and is just waiting for practice to end.

      The next day the team has a team dinner without coach, and it's just a good time. The upper class tell "war stories" about there previous basketball years here at IU. On of the players won two state championships in highschool in Illinois, and had bumber stickers of them on his car. But when coach saw he screemed, " I don't care what you did in highschool, this is higher level basketball," and he had to take them off. This is where I left off.

Non-Fiction

I used to only read fiction books because I liked how they could be different and abstract. But recently after reading my book Playing for Knight which is a true story, I'm starting to really learn about the world. I think it's fun to read about things that are really happening.

I've also started reading online articles just about current events, and it's fun to see what is happening that before I would never know about. Yes some of it is very boring, there are some non-fiction texts that are just awful to read, but not all are like that. I just recently read some articles on CNN and New York Times about the Trayvon Martin Case. It was unbelieveably different but i really liked it. I got to learn about new laws they were thinking about adding to the Doctrine of Self-Defense. Also i while reading I ended up picking a side so i get really into it and actually felt emotion while reading it.

I do recommend to read non-fiction to anyone. It really gets you caught up on things and can help you learn about current events and history. What's great about it is that it's real so you can go look it up to help you understand the text and learn something new. I'm not saying just read non-fiction, but i do highly recommend you read some on a daily bases. And not a whole lot you can just go look up a current article thats a page long online.

Recommendation

I haven't gotten much further into my book, Playing for Knight. All that has happened is Steve is preparing for his next season. He has done nothing but go play open gyms with some of the older players and talk about how this program is. I figured I would use this post to talk about who I would recommend this book too. This book is obviously a basketball book based on the cover, so anyone who likes basketball would like this. But not just basketball players can get into it, any athlete because this book can help show how hard they have to work or even motivate them. Also this book could appeal to anyone who is interested in non-fiction stories, because this book is about a real player and coach that they could learn about or relate to. I really liked this book, I got to see a different person's coaching styles and got to see how The main character, Steve, changed throughout the insane coaching style of Coach Knight.

I just recently started reading the book Playing for Knight. It's a book about Steve Alford, a basketball player who goes to Indiana University and plays basketball there for the well known crazy but brilliant coach, Coach Knight. I'm not far in but he just recently made a bet with Michael Jordan after his freshman year there saying he can finish out his college carreer at IU playing for Knight.

In this book they the author, Steve, is depicted as a very dedicated and hard-working person. For one, he made it into Indian University which isn't an easy thing to do. So he had to have worked hard and been a good player already. But then he says he is going to make it all four years there with Knight. Which shows extreme dedication because many players have left that basketball team because the coach was to tough on him. Also he made it on the Mens Olympic team which as well, isn't very easy at all. Although with all this success he is a little confident in himself so he acts like he knows more aabout the game then he does. So with Coach Knight as his coach, being the crazy man he is, I feel Bob will really change Steve throughout his college career.

I made a connection of the beggining of this book to the "How Bad Do You Want It" video on youtube. Which just talks about things that get you motivated, and shows you famous athletes working out. Steve reminds of this because he is so dedicated and motivated and determined which is the feeling you get when you here this video. He and this video are both inspiring to others to want to succeed in anything you do.