Kwame Alexander The Crossover

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How Family Can Influence Your Actions How can your family affect how you act? There can be many factors. “The Crossover” by Kwame Alexander, is a young adult literature story that provides us with an example of how our family can influence our actions. When Josh’s brother, JB, dates his crush, Josh gets impulsive. This leads to Josh getting mad, and “...fire a pass so hard, it levels him, the blood from his nose still shooting long after the shot-clock buzzer goes off.” (Alexander 101). This shows how family can cause you to do bad things. What Josh did caused him to feel “...miles away from all of them [his family]” (Alexander 103) and leaving his family “solemn and wounded” (Alexander 103). JB made his brother Josh mad by dating his crush,
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