Category: Book The Contender

The Contender, written by Robert Lipsyte, is a novel about the protagonist, Alfred Brooks. The Contender, as the title suggests, is known as the possibility of someone becoming a champion and hence, this novel is a story of how the motivation to be a contender aroused in Alfred and what happens from the point of…

The Contender The Contender is a book about a young black boy named Alfred Brooks, growing up in a poor part of New York. Alfred is faced with a struggle inside himself to become a better person. Alfred does not want to be just another “good little slave”, but he doesn’t want to find himself…