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Comparing Brian Piccolo And Gale Sayers In Brian's Song

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Brian's Song is a touching story between two football players named Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers. They are both different in physical and emotional ways that affect their personality. They start to hate each other but then they start to support each other and have a never ending relationship that can only be broken by death. Overall not only they affect one another with their relationship, they inspire others.

Brian Piccolo is the man with something always to talk about. He has social skills of the popular kid at school, and he is more of an optimistic than a realist. He partners up with Gale Sayers, a man of the opposite race with an opposite personality. In the beginning they are going for the same spot on their so they begin to be competitive …show more content…

They make sure you already know what the climax is, the same goes with the beginning and end. The rising actions begin telling us all about the two main characters and their personalities. They end up meeting each other just right before Gale was going to visit the tooth fairy because of a ball coming right towards his head. Brian introduces himself to Gale and then Brian recalls him meeting Gale a season ago. Gale is confused and he continues on walking to his station. He finds out that Brian will be his sleeping buddy causing lost of controversy over the country. Kind of similar to the Little Rock incident. They get along with each other even though there is some small bits of fighting in between it. Gale ends up getting in trouble for talking while one of the coaches was speaking to the rest of the team. Then they go have a couple football games against other teams, meet each others family, etc.

The climax begins with Brian doing worse and worse with exercises during practice. Also Gale breaks his knee. He later gets it fix by Brian(still getting more ill) by using a fancy machine. Gale thanks Brian and then they train each other to become better at the game. Brian ends up telling Gale that he feels like he is pregnant which causes Brian's Friends, Team, and Family to worry about him. It is later revealed that Brian is diagnosed with cancer. This causes the relationship between Gale and Brian to get stronger. Gale knee is better and he keeps on continuing winning games just for his friend

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