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In the Poem “The Knight”, it is clearly stated that the knight has had some tremendous injuries that he has been inflicted. However, the Knight still rides strong throughout the land. According to Adrienne Rich, “Who will unhorse the rider and free him from between the walls of iron, the emblems crushing his chest with their weight” (The Knight). This quote from the poem shows that even though the Knight has gone threw so much, he still is riding strong and will not be brought down by these things. When Rich asks who will, "unhorse the rider", she is asking who will be the one to bring the knight down, and stop him from going on. However, the knight still shows the ability to get past them. This can be related to Coach Gaines in the book, 'Friday Night Lights', due to the amount of criticism and disapproval he has to deal with from the town of Odessa. . In the book __Friday Night Lights__ Coach Gaines is highly favored by the people of Odessa until he loses. According to Bissinger, "When he went home late that night, several for sale signs had been punched into his lawn, a not-so-subtle hint that maybe it would be best for everyone if he just got the hell out of town" (20). Bissinger talks about the "several for sale signs" in order to let the audience know that people were not behind Coach Gaines at that point. Permian had lost their game to Midland Lee causing a three-way tie for the division title. When saying "it would be best for everyone if he just got the hell out of town" Bissinger is saying that there could much more harm done to Gaines if Permian did not make it into playoffs. As stated in the book, the people were having high expectations for this team and were going to be furious if those expectations were not met. Before the Midland Lee game, everyone was still behind Gaines and the Permian football team. "When he went home late that night" that shows that those signs were not there before the game. Since they lost the game and were now in a three-way tie, the tide had changed and fans were then against Coach Gaines.