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Fever Pitch

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A Way of Life through Football //Fever Pitch// by Nick Hornby is a book about the author’s life and the challenges he experienced. Every time I read a new page, there was a different challenge he face**d.** //Fever Pitch// explains so much about Nick’s life and exactly what he went through in this memoir. At the start of the book, I really like**d** the story, and as it went on, I started to lose interest. Even Nick shows that throughout his life he had bad days and good days, but he manages to go with his day in some way. His friends and family, the football games, and graduating college made Nick to the man he is today. There were many themes woven through the book. The main one I noticed was “coming of age.” Every chapter the reader learns what Nick is struggling with to make his life better. Nick tries to better educate himself. Nick says “I could no longer, if I was to maintain any self-respect, postpone my transfer from the Schoolboys’ Enclose to the North Bank” (Hornby 65). Nick explains how he’s trying to transfer to a better school but he put it on hold because he has to maintain his self-respect. Many years went by and Nick didn’t go to any matches. The first match he went to he said, “...and that the season after that, 75/76, I only went the once, with Uncle Brian and my young cousin Michael,” (77). As the season of the Arsenal continued over many years, Nick started to go to less and less of the matches because he started to lose interest. As Nick tells the readers about his life, he shows everything he’s been accomplished to become the man he is today. Coming of age is a great theme for this story because the story shows how he grows in maturity. To help readers understand his life story, Nick includes many details of his life. He is the main character of this story. Nick life in this story shows what drama and all the matches he went to. Nick even at the age of 11, he was a diehard Arsenal fan. “I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it,” (7). He went to most of the matches with his father. He knows every player on the team and knows their stats. Nick, as he got older started to go to games on his own. When he got into college he started to go less and less. Even with a broken ankle, he still went to an Arsenal game he even said “ I realized that I was going to the game somehow, that there were taxis and seats in the Lower West Stand and friends’ shoulders to lean on if necessary, the panic subsided and it became a simple matter of logistics,” (187). He is determined to go to as many as the games as he can. No matter what gets in his way he will go to all the Arsenal games. //Fever Pitch //was a book that if a reader loves sports would love this book. Every time I would read a new chapter I would feel the issues that Nick were having. As the story moved on I saw the different problems Nick faced and I really enjoyed it. If the reader really likes sports they will really love this book.