SuitabookLizzy Legend
Matthew Ross Smith
- Reading
- The non-linear-feeling mix of narrative and media snippets may be worth discussing as you read: notice whose voices appear and how they shape the view of Lizzy’s progress.
- Themes
- Gender and access to sport: Lizzy is initially refused a place on the boys’ team under a rule against co-ed teams, then gets an opportunity to play and pursues a professional career. The restriction is central to Lizzy’s route into basketball, but the extracts do not establish how fully the story examines the rule or its consequences.
- Hard work and extraordinary ability: Lizzy practises extensively and later gains a wish that makes every shot successful; after the wish ends, she plays on for the love of basketball. The contrast between practice, magical help and continuing without the wish supports a bounded reading that effort and love of the game matter beyond the power itself.
- Worth knowing
- Lizzy and her father face debt and unpaid bills, and debt collectors call her. A reader may notice this financial pressure alongside her pursuit of basketball.