Early in the book, we are introduced to Cory's aspirations of playing college football somewhere. Cory sees this as a way out of his current situation of living to help him and his family. While Cory might look shallow at this opportunity. Troy has lived in this same situation. “The colored guy got to be twice as good before he gets on the team. That's why I don't
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