The book Slam is about
a kid named Greg “Slam” Harris. Slam really enjoys basketball and that’s what
he wants to do play college basket ball. He wants more people to believe in him
and have some people to support him and say he can do it. The person he thinks
who has it out for him is his principal Mr. Tate, but all he is trying to do is
help Slam become a better student and get use to the new environment he is in, so he says. Mr. Tate's point of view in this is not that different but in a way still very different.
Mr. Tate saw Slam as a slacker because of the way he was in school, he didn't even get to know him just judged him for what he saw. If he thinks your slipping a little
bit in classes he won’t hesitate to take out of sports or call your parents for
a meeting to see how they can fix the problem. For slam Mr. Tate focuses more
on him because this is a more high class school
then what slam is use to. So basically Mr. Tate is helping Slam adjust
to the new school, and he will do everything he can and has to do to assist
him.
I see that Mr. Tate’s
intensions are good but obviously his style isn’t really working out for
neither of them. Slam is disappointing his mom and dad with his grades. Also I
know that Mr. Tate wants to see some progress in Slam but it’s just not turning
out that way. Mr. Tate needs to find a solution to this problem before Slam
gets out of hand and starts to fail more classes and soon enough he might not
graduate. That would really effect Slam if he doesn’t even have a high school
diploma because how would you show a good impression to the NBA and they see
you haven’t Finished high school. Mr. Tate wouldn’t want that on his conscious
when he knows he could have had helped him but choose to not really dig deep
and actually help him.
Eventually they make amends
with each other and find a way for Slam’s study habits to be better involving
basketball. Just like him and his dad made some time to spend with each other.
