"in short I was your typical teenage anti-intellectual - or so I believed for a long time. I have recently come to think ,however that my preference of sports over school work was not an anti-intellectualism so much ad intellectualism by other means" (Graff 298)

"on the one hand it was necessary to maintain the boundary between the 'clean-cut' boys like me and the working middle class 'hood' boys as we called them which mean ti t was good to be considered book smart. but i also had a strong desire of acceptance by the hoodwhom i encountered daily and for this purpose it was not good to be considered book smart" (Graff 301)


yes i think it was effective because it gave a sense of realism and not just form the point of view from and outsider