Report on Friday Night Lights

Friday Night Lights is a remarkable book. Having come from a small town where the

local high school football team was also state champions during the late eighties and early

nineties this book caught my attention right away. It displays the dream of a small town in West

Texas as but as well mentions about segregation, the oil boom, and the oil crisis that came after.

What makes this book important is the work the author did of putting everything together.

He not only highlights the times when economic prosperity in Odessa was at it’s best, but he

also mentions the time when all the luxury went down. The author’s work is remarkable because

he mentions several social factors in this sports book. By mentioning about racism, and the

segregated school system this catches the reader’s attention and makes us aware of the different

issues that took place in a place in Texas that is so close to us. Despite all the economic

downturns and other socia...