The book Swagger by Carl Deuker is an outstanding book. Swagger offered a great connection with my personal life involving basketball. The book taught me life lessons throughout the book, and the author did a tremendous job using imagery to describe the characters. I did and I didn't like the way Deuker wrote Swagger. Many instances lead me to concur with the way Swagger was written, and a few reasons why I didn’t enjoy the plot of Swagger. I connected with Swagger very easily because of my passion for basketball. Throughout the book Jonas expresses his love for basketball. I love basketball, and to learn how my character enjoyed basketball just as much as I do made this reading so much easier. The author did a great job reaching out to me or any other basketball player that reads this book. Carl Deuker wrote Swagger so smoothly, which made it so easy to connect with and understand. The connection I had with basketball was, in…show more content… He was never in trouble, and he would always be there to help anyone. I liked how religious, quiet, and helpful Deuker described Levi. Levi was always helping his mom with his sisters. After school every day, he would have to spend a certain amount of time with his sisters before doing his own thing, or hanging out with his friends. He would always do the right thing when he was faced with a sticky situation. Ryan Hartwell was the last character Deuker went into deep detail with. He made him sound innocent, manipulative, and a great young man. Deuker made it sound like Hartwell actually cared about the boys on his basketball team. The author tricked me while I was reading, and proved me to think differently about Hartwell. As the book continued, the author made me strongly dislike Hartwell, and towards the end I almost couldn’t stand to read it anymore because of just one character. “And I like Coach Hartwell, or at least I used to. We all liked him” (Deuker
