ehow, though, the football coach at St Matt’s discovered that he is a true star athlete, and thus he was able to get David a full scholarship for his last year of high school. When David arrives at St. Matt’s, he discovers a world of amazing wealth, and of students who often don’t appreciate how lucky they are to be born into the privileged social class they come from. Still, he is able to do well in classes and lead the school football team to a winning season. He makes some friends and meets Sally, but he also learns that even here, anti-Semitism (racism against Jews) is both accepted and common. Thus, David chooses to keep his Judaism to himself, but when that fact becomes known, he must face the general hostility of some, and the cruelty of Charlie Dillon in particular... A Note on Prep Schools and the Ivy League: Preparatory Schools, which are usually called Prep Schools, are private high schools that are considered among the best in the United States. Many of them are in the Northeast, and some of them are still for just boys. They are extremely expensive, and thus most prep school students are children of the country’s richest people. The St. Matthew’s Academy in this film is fictional, but it closely resembles several real prep schools found throughout Massachusetts. The primary reason that rich parents send their kids to prep schools is that attendance at such a place greatly increases the chances that a student will be able to go to one of the country’s best universities. Among those universities, the best known are the so-called Ivy league schools of the Northeast, named after the ivy plant that grows on their buildings. These include Harvard (in Boston, Massachusetts), Yale (in New Haven, Connecticut) and Princeton (in Princeton, New Jersey). Some Words and Expressions that You May not Know David get lucky, and soon discovers the elite world of St. Matthew’s Academy. You go up there and become a gentleman; Not like this riff-raff. In this case, a "gentleman" is a man who is well-behaved. "Riff-raff" is an interesting word for people who cause trouble and are generally uneducated and perhaps even violent. We ought to be kicking his skinny butt for breaking up the team. "To kick a person’s butt" is to physically attack them, or beat them up. Look who’s talking! An expression that is used to suggest that the person who was speaking before is guilty of something they had accused others of. The night before last, his sister gave me a hand job. It was her idea. A "hand job" is the act of sexually masturbating a guy. You know, you got a Jew friend with a real smart mouth. A person who has a "smart mouth" is often saying things that are rude, sassy or disrespectful. So it doesn’t bother you that they killed Jesus and everything? Note that a source of anti-Jewish racism has
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