Granny Ed and the Lewisville Raiders

Nick Majeskie

" I had timed the jump perfectly and rebounded the ball. I could see the other teams center that is seven feet tall come crashing into me. Then my grandma came rushing on the court (She is the head coach). She told me I had a one and one coming up on the free throw line and she told me to make the first one and miss the second one so Al could rebound it and put up a shot to win the game" page 13. This is what had happened in the last seconds in the basketball game when the Lewisville Raiders won the state championship. The short story Granny Ed and the Lewisville Raiders, written by Rae Rainey, clearly show that this is a romantic mode of literature.

The short story mode of literature is romance. If the story is the romantic mode of literature then there is a plotline. In a romance plotline there is only two things. The two things are at the beginning there is a minor conflict in the story. The minor conflict is that they need a coach. They find a coach and the coach is Granny Ed. In addition in the plotline the end ends with life symbolism which is when something good happens. The life symbolism in the story is that they won the State Championship.

In addition to a plotline there are characteristics. In a romance there is a lot of characteristics. The first characteristics is everything seems better than it really is. It shows this by is when the Raiders need a coach and they find one and it is a grandma. What if she got sick there was no assistant coach so they would have to forfeit or if she got hurt from old age. Another characteristic is that it is a fantasy vision and unrealistic. It is unrealistic when they won the championship because what team has a grandma as a coach and wins state. The next characteristic is when the main character is in control and can't do wrong this showed when Sport jumped up and got the rebound and was fouled and made the foul shot and missed to help win the game. Finally good is powerful and evil was weak. The Raiders won and the Tigers lost.

The last part is the purpose. The purpose is when you escape to a world of innocence. That showed when it had a happy ending. Which is when the Raiders won state. Everything goes right for the characters in the story and everything did go right because they were supposed to be really bad since they lost their real head coach.

This short story seemed to me to be a romantic mode of literature. Everything about it followed the romantic mode of literature. The plotline, characteristics, and the purpose matched. I liked this book because it had a happy ending and they won state. Granny Ed and the Lewisville Raiders was a romantic mode of literature.