One Way or Another
Jamie Orf
Mr. Storm
English 1 Pre-AP
1 December 2012
One Way or Another Someone once said that, “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get”. Ivory Christian was happy preaching and wanted to preach but was afraid football would interfere with his goal of preaching and succeeding at being a Christian. Many kids today are undecided on what they want to do in life. They have to really think on what will help them the most later in life. Ivory Christian was one of those kids. He could not decide if he should quit football to fully devote his time to his dream of preaching. Ivory Christian is a character whose mind was pulled in two different directions in the novel Friday Night Lights by H.G Bissinger. Ivory wanted to focus on being a Christian and following certain rules. He wanted to live life on a higher maturity level that people his age so he could have a successful future and he wanted to live a cleaner lifestyle. He also wanted to really focus on pursuing his gift of preaching. Ivory really wanted to eliminate those lower maturity things his teammates often did from his life. H.G. Bissinger wrote: “As the result of his conversion, he hated alcohol and had contempt for those who touched it” (99). He no longer had tolerance for people who exhibited his old partying ways. H.G. Bissinger wrote about how Ivory’s standards in women changed: “Now he started grilling girls about their habits to see if their moral standards were good enough for him” (99). Ivory quit dating around like he used to and became more serious about only dating girls who had high enough standards. Pastor Hanson said, “They may drink a beer, they may go to a concert. You can still be Ivory, you can still be eighteen years old” (99). He gave up all his old partying ways and quit hanging around people who exhibited those habits such as his peers and teammates. H.G. Bissinger described what Ivory realized after his dream: “He was living his life
Mr. Storm
English 1 Pre-AP
1 December 2012
One Way or Another Someone once said that, “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get”. Ivory Christian was happy preaching and wanted to preach but was afraid football would interfere with his goal of preaching and succeeding at being a Christian. Many kids today are undecided on what they want to do in life. They have to really think on what will help them the most later in life. Ivory Christian was one of those kids. He could not decide if he should quit football to fully devote his time to his dream of preaching. Ivory Christian is a character whose mind was pulled in two different directions in the novel Friday Night Lights by H.G Bissinger. Ivory wanted to focus on being a Christian and following certain rules. He wanted to live life on a higher maturity level that people his age so he could have a successful future and he wanted to live a cleaner lifestyle. He also wanted to really focus on pursuing his gift of preaching. Ivory really wanted to eliminate those lower maturity things his teammates often did from his life. H.G. Bissinger wrote: “As the result of his conversion, he hated alcohol and had contempt for those who touched it” (99). He no longer had tolerance for people who exhibited his old partying ways. H.G. Bissinger wrote about how Ivory’s standards in women changed: “Now he started grilling girls about their habits to see if their moral standards were good enough for him” (99). Ivory quit dating around like he used to and became more serious about only dating girls who had high enough standards. Pastor Hanson said, “They may drink a beer, they may go to a concert. You can still be Ivory, you can still be eighteen years old” (99). He gave up all his old partying ways and quit hanging around people who exhibited those habits such as his peers and teammates. H.G. Bissinger described what Ivory realized after his dream: “He was living his life