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Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() What he reports is not pretty- “The American version of the Berlin Wall…” (Bissinger, 89) but at the same time, it is moving when he shows us what the future holds for many of these players after their high school football careers are over. In the end, unlike a novelist, he must report the truth as he sees it unfold before him. He is at heart a journalist and comes to Odessa to report on a town and a team and their failures and successes. His motivation was to experience firsthand the Permian Panthers and become a part of their environment. Bissinger took a leave from the Philadelphia Inquirer and moved his family to Odessa. While researching small town Texas football for his novel Friday Night Lights, H. “Buzz” Bissinger’s brilliant study of the 1988 football team set in this beautiful Texas town grew into a socially motivated novel entitled Friday Night Lights. Permian High School in the west Texas oil town of Odessa, Texas. “Those lights become an addiction if you live in a place like Odessa, the Friday Night fix.” (Bissinger,14) Racism, controversy, and pride. ![]() ![]() Are they the same? Different? How? Why? What values are communicated in each? Is there a shift from book to movie in what is honored, lauded, critiqued, or lampooned? Establish the purpose of the novel and the movie Friday Night Lights, by H.G. ![]()
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