The Streak Blog

The Streak is a short story in the book 145th street by Walter Dean Myers. This story is about a boy named Jamie and how he is having really bad luck. First he missed the shot in the basketball game, then he broke the bottle in the locker room, next he broke the slide in biology, then he dumped milk on the toughest kid in school, Maurice Dupre, after that he banged up his ankle at home, he also left his wallet at school, and finally he flunked his English test. His friend, Froggy Williams suggests that he is having a bad streak. A streak is when things good or bad happen to you continuesly. He also says if you had a bad streak, later you will have a good streak. Since seven bad things happened to Jamie, Froggy thinks that seven good things would happen to him. At first Janie noticed his good streak by throwing an egg and it just so happens it land in the egg carton safe and sound. Other good things happened to him such as: he did well on his pop quiz, he got a free soda, he found out Celia was allergic to flowers, his dad gave him a $100, he made the shot through the waste basket, and he made the winning shot in the basketball game. All of his streaks were gone, and he still didn't ask Celia to the dance. Then in the end she asked him out because she was on a streak. I really liked this story, it was amusing and fun to read with the class. As we read further, I kind of got a little bit bored about the luck thing. Froggy and Jamie were making a big deal over this streak thing. I pretty much predicted what was going to happen next. I knew he wouldn't have enough streaks left to ask Celia to the dance. I also figured that his last streak was going to be wasted on the winning shot in the basketball game! Overall, I thought this book was pretty good. I think the message to this story was don't rely anything on luck. I believe in luck but luck won't make a girl go out with you. If you like the girl ask her out, you don't have to wait for a streak to make it happen.