Authors Note: This piece is on the development of dynamic character Ty Lewis a thirteen year old boy much like the rest of with some very different experiences.
Ty Lewis who went from a boy with dead parents who slept in the laundry room of his uncles old rickety house, and bathed outside with crick water in a rusty tub because he wasn’t allowed to use his uncles bathroom. To a boy living with his brother who plays for the New York Jets living in a mansion without a care in the world until the mob comes back out to kill this time.
The first book Football Hero starts when Ty lives with his uncle who mistreats him and makes him bath outside in a rusty tub, and use a 100 year old outhouse as a bathroom. At first Ty is shy and he is a loner at school whose only friends are books. His uncle wants information on the Jets so that he can bet on games with the mob. Ty is told that he can play football if he gets injury information from his brother “Tiger”.
When Ty starts to get the information, and tries out for the football team, he starts to feel confident. He aces the tryouts and that gives him even more confidence and he starts to fit in at school. That is a pretty big leap from where he was, and he has a whole lot more ahead of him to learn.
The FBI finds the gambling and that Tiger was leaking information Ty and his brother are accused of the crime. Tiger admits he was telling his brother things, but Ty thought it was for his uncle’s fantasy football league. This changed Ty because then he became a target from the mob because he helped the FBI, and his Uncle and his family were put into the witness protection program. Ty was friends with his cousin who had to go with his Uncle without any contact with people she formally knew.
Ty now went from shy outcast who was mentally abused by his Uncle to a #1 target of the mob. That’s a huge change and affects Ty’s life because a mad mob member turns on Tiger and Ty had to jump and shove him down stairs so that Tiger didn’t get beaten with a crow-bar. After that the first book ended with a big cliffhanger.
The second novel Deep Zone is about Ty’s life with his brother and he has become the star football player for his school and gains tons of friends and is going to try out for a seven on seven team lead by a former giants quarterback coach. During the football season his Uncle comes back for a trial, and the mob gets stirred back up and sends killers after Ty. Tiger gets injured in a play-off game really bad and gets and infection and is moved into an ICU, and an undercover FBI agent is sent to protect Ty. During that time TY forms a bond with the officer, and the officer starts to change Ty’s life even more. The agent gives him advice to work through a cut on his hand to try-out. The coach notices Ty’s toughness and grants him a spot on the team.
While on the team one night a mob killer tried to break into Ty’s house, now Ty has even more to worry about. Ty feel the problem is fixed when he goes down to Miami to play in the championship game for his seven on seven team, and meets a girl who he seems to like. Now Ty has a girl, a mob, and a game to worry about. This changes Ty in the biggest way because he meets new friends and he goes on to win the game and he feels on-top of the world and he feels amazing, when about a year ago he was thinking he was nothing and his Uncle, would start beating him.
Ty went through huge changes in both books, but mainly the second book. Because that’s when things rise to murder attempts, (I would tell more about the murder attempt, but it would ruin the book) and Ty knows it so he has changed so much from a “nobody” to a star football player escaping death.
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