Changing Trent's Life

Author's Note: I wrote this as a character development piece on Trent and how he got his life back on track after being around violence for as long as he can remember, and he does it through basketball.

Trent was around trouble his whole life. Whether it was his mother getting caught for the use of marijuana, or another crime committed by his brother, it seemed he could never get away. That reflected on him too, because he looked up to them, and thought it was okay to be violent. At 15, he already had a criminal record. He didn’t want to live this way, but he couldn’t find anything to keep him away from his family long enough to figure out how to turn his life around.

School was hard, but he had one passion that never changed; basketball. The varsity team tryouts were just around the corner, and Trent wanted in. Sure enough, e played well both sessions of the tryouts, and made the team first string. Trent became a better teammate, and his team became his second family. Overall, he became a better teammate and a better kid, and that had a positive influence on his family and friends, and with that, it helped their team win. 

Throughout the story, Trent grew as a basketball player and as a teammate. He found that his teammate lived down the street from him, so he played basketball with him every night throughout basketball’s long season.  Basketball kept Trent out of trouble and turned his attitude about life around and ultimately made him a better person and will make him a better man for the rest of his hopefully long life.