3) Setting and Genre

        John Grisham’s novel Playing for Pizza is set during modern times, and although it is a fictional story, its quite possible that such events could occur in our world today. Rick Dockery, Grisham’s main character, is a NFL reject who loses his team’s Superbowl all by himself in only eleven minutes. This embarrassing failure of Dockery’scauses him to lose his contract with the Cleveland Browns and causes all of the opposing teams in the NFL to contact Rick’s manager to tell him they don’t want to recruit Dockery. When all seems to fail, Rick’s manager manages to find a position for Dcokery to fill in Parma, Italy as their starting quarterback, which Rick had never before played after High School. This type of situation is incredibly possible for any man who plays football or any other sport. It’s not unlikely that a person would go out of the country to play their sport in a different culture. This novel is quite realistic in the fact that such events could happen to somone in our world today.