![]() ![]() As he begins his monologue, Drew makes it clear he thinks the world of his game. In Walter Dean Myers’s “Game,” members of a Harlem high school varsity basketball team play out this classic struggle for perspective both on and off the court.Īt the center of this lean first-person narrative is Drew, an athletically gifted African-American teenager with plummy visions of a college scholarship and N.B.A. ![]() Learning to reach beyond oneself, the very self that young people spend so much of their time fashioning, may well be childhood’s hardest lesson. If he was counting on sympathy, he was in for a surprise: “Get interested in Latin,” the professor advised him. A college friend who was struggling in one of his classes went to talk things over with his professor.
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