Essays on Boys in The Boat

A very important theme in “The Boys in the Boat” by Daniel James Brown is class, and especially the contention between various financial classes. The book happens during the Great Depression, a time when the breakdown of the stock market and the decrease of industry…

Introduction While a lot of The Boys in the Boat is about the US crew programs of the 1930s, the rest of the book is about the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, Germany, hosted and organized by the Fascist government of Adolf Hitler. Hitler instituted…

In the novel The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown, Joe’s life was full of obstacles. Joe was able to work through all of his obstacles because of grit. Grit is working hard through adversity. Other characteristics of a person with grit are…