Overcoming Adversity

The book Playing With Fire by Theo Fleury is a story about his life. Throughout the book we see Theo overcome adversity time and time again as he works his way up to the NHL. The main theme we see throughout the book is "overcoming adversity". On page 30, Theo wrote "Graham cultivated a relationship with Sheldon and me by isolating us from our families and from other players". On page 31, Theo wrote " I feel badly about it now, but i was to involved in my own shit to worry about what was happening with anyone else. I was just trying to survive." This connects to the theme because it shows us the adversity he was going to be facing in Graham and how his mindset was changed. Theo went into survival mode and did what he thought was necessary to make it through his difficult time. The conflict he faced early on in his life affects him throughout his life and gives him lots of identity problems. Theo faces many adversities through his life and this is just one of the many he has to overcome.