Running Brave Reflection Part 2

Coach told Billy that the latter could out-run every competitor if he decided to live to his potential. Billy was a disciplined man, in a letter he wrote to his sister how he studied all night and read the same lectures several times until he had a meaningful understanding of the material discussed in class. He had pertinacity. He even verbalized to the coach how he dreamed of participating in the Olympics and winning the event, he knew what he wanted.

Continuous triumph bestowed upon young Billy: He won the MVP in a running tournament he participated, inducing him to feel as good as ever. He got engaged with Pat, his white heritage future wife he met at KU. He was offered a job at mutual. starting off as soon as he graduated. He started winning every single race he ran in. Everybody seemed to believe in him, even his coach told him how Kansas University had never won an NCAA championship and that Billy Could change that for them.

But eventually not everything developed perfectly in this young man’s life. After being invited to the fraternity party and presenting himself there, a member of the fraternity told him how the affiliation didn’t allow Indians in their club. His girlfriend’s parents demonstrated prejudice against Billy’s heritance. And the events that struck him the most were: when Eddie convinced Frank to believe that Indian’s didn’t belong in a White men’s World, thus leaving Pat’s parents house and abandoning Billy's company after being 10 minutes in the house. And lastly, when he walked into Frank's room to only find him laying in his bed with a bullet through his head and a gun in his right hand.

Obviously his family situation inflicted him the most. Around this time he began to loose focus, he began to loose races, and his inter relationships with his former track coach, his girlfriend and his potential future boss and co-worker began to decline. Inherently he began to doubt himself, and his temporary failure to formulate a strong intra relationship led him to screw his outer actions and outer relationships with the world.

We haven’t finished seeing the movie in class, but word has it he won the Olympics just as he stated in the coach’s office. He lived his words: <<You’ll be amazed at the marvelous results you’ll achieve if you add a lot of hard work to a bit of talent>>; something like that Billy stated in the movie, and frankly, that’s a life lessons we should all be inspired to act upon.