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Prediction By Josh Bell
The narrator’s point of view in the story is 1st person. The narrator describes the feelings and ideas of himself. He is described in words like I, we, and me. An example from the story are “Maybe a book of those rules you give me and JB before each of our games.”

The settings of this story is in North Carolina most likely. I am not exactly sure where this story takes place, but from known information in the story, we are able to make a prediction. The story takes place in modern time and the boys go to school at Reggie Lewis Middle School.

This story's main character is Josh Bell. He lives with his brother, mom, and dad. He has a passion to win in basketball and has not lost many games. Josh gets suspended from playing basketball by his mother and won't play in the playoffs. He has a bad temper at some points but a good heart. Josh gets mad when his brother gets a girlfriend, so he lets his anger out on him. His mom with the school principal and always getting him in trouble for something. Josh's dad is an all-star basketball player, but doesn't play anymore, because he did not choose to have surgery.
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She takes over Jordan's life and he doesn't have time to play basketball anymore with Josh. Jordan will go out on dates with his girlfriend and won't play basketball with Josh and won't even talk to him that much. Josh feels left out so he lets out his anger on the court. Jordan used to always play with Josh but now doesn't play often. They rarely talk to each other at school or at home unless they need to. When his father gets an offer to play the coach at a college so way, they might have to leave the team and move. His father is feeling sick and often in the hospital. One day after an attack he died. At the end, his brother gives him his father's basketball ring his father wanted to give

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