The Hockey Sweater

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The Hockey Sweater In the short story The Hockey Sweater written by Roch Carrier, the theme is loyalty. This is evident in the story when the kid refuses to wear the sweater for his love of the Montreal Canadians, also when he breaks his stick because he gets a penalty and thinks it is because of his jersey, and the third reason is when he goes to the church and he asks god “As quickly as possible, moths that would eat up my Toronto Maple Leafs sweater.”(Carrier, 59) He shows loyalty to the Montreal Canadians when he receives the new sweater in the mail and he sees that it is the jersey of the Toronto Maple Leafs and he refuses to wear it. He tells his mom repeatedly that he will not wear the jersey to his hockey game; he says “I’ll never wear it.”(Carrier, 58) In addition at his hockey game and he doesn’t get played the whole game. He finally goes on the ice in the third period and he gets a penalty. He is so frustrated that he breaks his stick on the ice because he thinks he got the penalty for wearing the Toronto Maple Leafs jersey. He exclaimed that “It was unfair! It was persecution! It was because of my blue sweater!’’ (Carrier, 59) The final area where he shows loyalty is when he is sent to church to pray to god to forgive him for what he did. When he goes to the church he prays that “Moths would eat up my Toronto Maple Leafs sweater.”(Carrier, 59). This stories theme is very evident and is well shown. The theme is loyalty and this is shown well by what the kid says and what he does. He is very loyal to his team the Montreal Canadians and will never want to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey
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