Review of Bleachers essays

Review of Bleachers essays Bleachers, by John Grisham is a story about a former high school football quarterback who comes back to his hometown to visit. His past coach, Eddie Rake, is dying and all of the players from the town go and visit together and talk about the glory days on a set of bleachers at Messina High school. Messina was a town where football meant everything to everyone in the town. Neely Crenshaw is a real-estate agent who comes to visit the town of Messina just to see what he has missed in the past ten years. His former coach, Eddie Rake, is in the hospital waiting for his death. Neely goes to visit his old school and talks to many people about the older days. They look back on how much they were worked and how hard they tried just to please the coach. Many feelings were negative towards Eddie Rake, yet some were positive. Neely is holding a grudge against the coach due to the fact that during half-time on a big game night, the coach screamed at everyone in the locker room and physically hit Neely in the face. Neelys first instinct was to hit back, so he did. The coach fell flat on the ground. Everyone was extremely mad at the coach for doing that. The anger that was built up inside of them led to their victory of the game that night. After the half-time, they were knocking people out, and as I recall, a player on the team broke someone elses arm during the game. The coaches were no where to be seen throughout the whole game, and never even congratulated them for their win. The Spartans was their name and they racked up about 13 state titles over the years. They were an amazing team with great capabilities of winning every time. Neely looks back on his high school days, and remembers his sweetheart, Cameron, that he left for another girl named Screamer. He left her just because she wore tight clothes and would pretty much do anything with him. Neely finds out that she is a prostitute and looks like shes 50, wh ...