Word: brotherism
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...sort-of reverse Grapes of Wrath, Kings starts in an agricultural town in southern California and works its characters East. Freddie, the slightly dreamy younger of two brothers whose mother has died, sells his father's used liquor bottles to fund his escapes to the movies. It may surprise some readers to discover Freddie is Jewish when plans for his Bar Mitzvah are mentioned: Unlike more familiar Depression-era stories of being Jewish in America, where characters struggle with assimilation in an urban ghetto, Kings tells a less common story. Freddie seems totally integrated into his small town, his Jewish...
...junior year at Pottsville Area High School in central Pennsylvania’s coal country, Steve Pilconis made all the right moves. The star wide receiver sent videotape of his games to football programs across the country. He waited patiently as programs returned interest. He watched as his older brother, Ryan, was recruited to play football at Harvard. But most of all, Pilconis let his junior season statistics speak for themselves: 27 catches, 704 yards, eight touchdowns...
Kevin Keating, the Pilconis’s high school coach, says he believes that having an older brother on the team will improve not only Steve’s work ethic, but also his overall experience at Harvard...
...have someone you know to get you through that first day, that first night, and to then have that person be a brother, it’ll be great,” Keating says. “It’s a win-win for both of them...
...going to be glad to be able to look back on these years with him and have all the same memories, football-wise,” Ryan says. “If I had to do it all over again, I’d take a brother going through the process every time...