Friday Night Lights
... natural at it and pumped it through his very veins with remorse. 2) hyperbole- “the residents of Southside packing the gym to the rafters with twelve hundred fans” _pg113. This talks about another town and how everyone attends the basketball games. It shows how games were like an indisputable must. 3) simile- “On and on the lot went, with gigantic pieces of equipment as far as the eye could see, as forlorn as bloodied elephant tusks” _pg228. This captures how pitiful the lot the oil rigs looked in the groom of old, washed-up, Odessa. 4) hyperbole- “he was losing the battle to the old familiar demons” _pg323. Winchell was again feeling the pressure and was confronted with the same problem he has had to deal with the entire time. They eat at him and the more he thinks about them the more he screws up. 5) simile- “The car went past the twinkling lights of an oil rig lit up like a lone Christmas tree” _pg254. The passage shows how far away from civilization the two of them had to go in order to find the fate of their team. III. 1) “We want you to carry the torch in the eight-eight season.” _pg24. This illustrates the way that every person in Odessa was riding on the backs of these few, special boys. 2) “Four full quarters and we’re gonna be tougher than they are! We’re gonna come out fired up and we’re gonna knock the hell from ‘em!” _pg174. This was part of the speech before the game against Midland Lee and everyone is fired up and waiting to kick some butt. 3) “Boobie Who?” _pg194. People have already begun to forget about him, a boy who gave his future career for that team and ended up just like every other worthless waste of space. 4) “If there wasn’t so much riding on it, if hundreds of people didn’t already feel like running to the city hall to get an emergency resolution passed legalizing lynching, it would be almost laughable. But it wasn’t.” _pg254. An entire season comes down to this one toss of the coin, and that would be it. 5) “People everywhere, old and young, were already dreaming of her...