Danger Zone

The main character in the book the Danger Zone is Jimmy Doyle. Jimmy is an average kid. Average grades, average looks, and average personality. Pretty much everything about him his average. Except for one thing. Basketball.  Jimmy is the best basketball player to come out of Graham, Minnesota. He’s probably the best player to come out Minnesota. Everybody knows it and he does to. For his high school basketball team, Jimmy is the team. Jimmy plays shooting guard for the team and is a three o’clock shooter. He can shoot from almost anywhere and make almost every time.  Sometimes when Jimmy is playing really well, he drifts off and goes into the zone. The zone for Jimmy is when he is almost untouchable. Nobody can stop him in the game and he just seems to make every shot, beat every person, and make every perfect pass. Jimmy is a hard working kid who is loyal to his family. His father had died when he was younger and throughout the years Jimmy had knew that it was going to happen. So when it did happen, Jimmy took charge and helped his mom take over the small hardware store that their father had owned. He didn’t run off and hang out with his friends. Instead he helped his mom out and did all of the work that he could to do to keep the store open. That shows that he cares about his family and has respect for them.

 In the book, Jimmy comes to many points where he is in trouble or something bad is about to happen. For example, when Jimmy went to Rome to play with the American “Dream Team” he meets Augustus LeMay, the point guard for the team and the star player. When Jimmy meets him, Augustus starts talking smack about Jimmy to his face, because Augustus has a cousin that played shooting guard also and was really good. The coaches had talked to his cousin to play the position, but they took Jimmy instead. Augustus was furious about it because he was very close with his cousin. So then him and Jimmy starting arguing about it. Then it turned into a shoving match and soon Jimmy lost control and took a punch at Augustus and hit him in the face. Even though Augustus was about two inches taller and way more built, Jimmy still took a punch. In the end he ended up getting knocked to the ground. It shows that Jimmy doesn’t back down from things and that he isn’t afraid. He knew that Augustus was stronger than him and he still tried fighting. It also shows that he is stubborn and doesn’t think before he acts.