Personal Narrative: Friday Night Lights

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When I first heard that we were going to be doing another speech I honestly was not happy about it at all because like many of you I was ready for school to be done for the summer. I began to think about it though and instantly I had three books that popped into my head and I thought that this assignment was not going to be hard. The three books that came to mind was: Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity written by Drew Brees, Friday Night Lights written by Buzz Bissinger, and the last one was Through My Eyes: A Quarterback’s Journey written by Tim Tebow. I had not read the books by Drew Brees or Tim Tebow so I thought my better option was to go with Friday Night Lights because I felt like I knew more and I was inspired by it. I do plan on reading the books by Brees and Tebow which I believe are going to be very inspiring as well. I read Friday Night …show more content…
Their community was able to come together and get along even though there were some troubles in years past. It sort of taught me a lesson that if I never give up and if I work hard you will end up succeeding in what you want to do in the future. There will always be someone that be more qualified for a position, but if you work for it and have a passion to do it then you will succeed because of the fact that you wanted it so bad. The Permian team may have not won State, but they did exceed the expectations that everyone thought would happen to them during the season. That is another inspiring thing and that people will often doubt you in the things that you do during your life, but it is your job to prove them wrong. I will work hard and never give up and with these two things I will be able to exceed everyone’s expectation for me. Friday Night Lights is a very inspiring book to me and it will remain one of my favorites because of the things it has taught

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