My favorite character is Shane from the book High Heat. He is my favorite character because I can relate a lot of stuff to his life. His favorite sport is baseball and so is mine. In the beginning of the book Shane was a great student who had a positive attitude towards everything he did but then his father passed away and he changed completely. He started getting B’s and C’s instead of A’s and B’s, he starts drinking and smoking, and he loses all confidence towards sports. Another way I can relate to Shane is that his dad died. My dad didn’t die but since he travels a lot he is gone most of the year. I miss my dad when he is gone for a week I can only imagine how Shane felt losing his dad forever. Also at a point in the book Shane hit another player with a pitch. The player was injured and couldn’t play for awhile. After that Shane had trouble being confident on the pitching mound and started struggling with hitting the strike zone like before. I relate to this because if I am pitching in my baseball game and I hit someone I also have trouble getting my confidence back and throwing strikes.