My All American Themes

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The Bleacher is a novel about a football team reuniting to visit there dying coach. “My all american” is a movie about american football player, Freddie steinmark, who thrives on the football field, but suffers a major loss. In “My all american’ and The bleachers physical toughness, mental toughness, and regret are some of the importances shown in life and football.
To start, Mal Brown from The Bleachers and Freddie Steinmark in “My all American” both displayed Physical toughness. “He recounted in great detail how Mal Brown had once rushed two hundred yards in the second half of conference championship, and he did so with a broken ankle!” (Grisham 54). What Mal Brown did is shocking and impressive. The amount of pain Mal had to endure must have been great. What he did isn't normal and would require them to be strong and tough. During practice Freddie Steinmark was racing against Bobby Mitchell, a man who happened to be a lot taller, and Freddy still won. Freddie Steinmark was shorter than the average football player and he had to make up for that. He had to practice longer and work harder In the end Freddy’s work payed …show more content…
Neely Crenshaw said “it was stupid, mean, lousy, selfish, harmful, and the older I get the more I regret it” (Grisham 176-177). Neely Crenshaw greatly regrets leaving his ex girlfriend Cameron. She was the love of his life, but he was too childish to understand that when he was younger. Neely’s love for her never faded away. The doctors walk in the room and tell Freddie he has bone cancer and they will have to amputate his leg. Freddie steinmark had a general feeling of regret because of the cancer. He regret that he didn’t live long enough to make a life, he regrets that he didn’t start a family. He regrets that he couldn’t continue his football career even though he couldn’t do anything about it. Regret is the third area of comparison in My all American and The
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