This is a project on the short story Sam the Athlete, we had to say whether we agreed or disagreed with him continuing to wear the skirt.

“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.” I feel like this line right here sums up the entire story in ten words. Don’t get me wrong Stuart Mclean is a great author but “Sam the Athlete” could have been summed up in just those ten words. Sam is an athlete who is having troubles with sports but sticks to it and joins a co-ed team, he pretends to be a girl until he finds out he doesn’t actually have to. Sam should have continued to wear that skirt, it helped him get to where he is now. The “skirt” wasn’t even a skirt it was a kilt, “And it was Morley who told him the skirt was called a kilt”, a quote directly from the book.