Summary Of Rudy's Story

The theme of following your dreams was shown multiple times throughout the movie. It means to attempt to make your fantasies into reality and never give up on it. The process of following your dreams may be painful and include sacrifices. In the movie “Rudy”, Rudy has a dream of going to Notre Dame to play football there. One example for this was the decision Rudy made to leave his friends and family to study at Notre Dame. He left his dad and fiance to study at Notre Dame. This was a sacrifice made in order for him to follow his dreams. Another example of Rudy following his dream was him attempting to raise his marks at Holy Cross, so he can play football. He wanted to play football at Notre Dame, but he didn't have the grades

This novel develops characters that engage in sex, to teachers cheating so their high school football players can continue to participate on the football field. Many people have a major affect on football and society in this novel. One of the major characters was Boobie Myles. Boobie was supposed to be the star athlete on the Permian football team. In the beginning, Boobie was arrogant to his teammates and wasn’t a good team leader. All Boobie cared about was winning and getting to the next level of football to satisfy his athletic needs. When Boobie is injured, he realizes he took football for granted and would do anything to play again. The team needs Boobie and Boobie needs the team. Coach Gaines realizes Boobie was seriously hurt and gives an inspiring pep talk to the team about how the players need to put their heart in the game and how lucky they are to be playing for Odessa.

Ultimately, Rudy is deported because he is deemed not-American by virtue of his brown body. His English, Dodgers hat, and knowledge of U.S. popular culture (as demonstrated by his knowledge of Death Valley Days and John Wayne) are completely ignored as signifiers of his Americanness. Instead, his brown body is taken as a more important signifier.

I believe it is not worth it to dream because usually it doesn’t happen anyway. In the book We Beat the Streets. Rameck, Sampson and George followed their dreams, but their friends did not. They got swallowed up by the tough streets, they had dreams too, but did they ever come true? The answer is NO. We can also see this in this particular video, Mere Doyle tried her best to sing on a show called The Voice and people always told her she was good, but when the judges heard her they said she was just awful. She worked really hard and they just turned her away. The evidence shows that it is not worth it to dream because people push to achieve their dream really hard and fail very fast if they follow their dreams.

A goal was set into action when Rudy, a football player, was given the opportunity to study at Holy Cross Community College. The movie Rudy is based on a boy who grew up in Joliet and hoped to play football for Notre Dame in the future. However, when Rudy’s best friend dies in an accident, Rudy left home in an attempt to achieve his goal of becoming a member of the Notre Dame football team. Throughout the movie, never giving up on dreams and working hard to accomplish life goals are shown as the overall theme. Rudy was always told that his goals were not realistic and to give up on them. Rudy fought hard and eventually did play for Notre Dame. Rudy proved those who told him “no” wrong. Rudy accomplished his goals to play football for his dream college. I’ve had a lot of goals so far in my life, but one big goal of mine is to eventually have one of my stories published in a novel.

They are always there for each other, no matter how terrifying or terrible the situation is. Rudy is in a program called Hitler Youth, which is required at his age. Rudy and his leader, Franz Deutscher, have a continuous hate for each other, which leads to future problems for Rudy. “He brought him to the ground for a second time, following him down with a knee to the rib cage. Again, Rudy stood up” (Zusak 297). When Rudy was asked the question “When is our Führer’s birthday?”, he continued to answer incorrectly to anger his Hitler Youth leader. When the two met on the street, a brawl began. At a disadvantage in size and strength, Rudy stood no chance, but he refused to give up. The obvious consequences to his act of bravery, or stupidity, did not phase him. “‘I’m not sure this is a good idea.’ He slapped some bread onto her palm. ‘Your papa did.’ How could she argue? It was worth a whipping” (Zusak 440). Not only did Rudy have a courageous heart, but a kind one as well. As the Jews marched along Himmel Street, Rudy and Liesel snuck off to complete Rudy’s sly plan to feed the Jews. By placing bread in the middle of the street, Rudy was proving that he agreed with what Hans did by helping a Jew during the first march. Him and Liesel were nearly caught, which would have made Liesel regret saying “It was worth a whipping”. Whether this was an act of recklessness or dauntlessness, Rudy proved he

This book impacted me in a positive way by showing the inferior conflicts to avoid in my life. An example of when Rudy had to put through hardship is when he would hesitate between school or partying. “I was a joker who never took classes seriously I would party and get drunk with the townies on the weekends and go diving with my Kahaluu friends on the weekdays. School was just a big time setback” Is textual evidence of Rudy having lack of interest in progressing in his life, and preparing for his

Tim Notke once said, “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” (Quotespaper). Shawn Grim comes from a poor family living in Appalachia, Rudy Ruettiger has suffered his whole life with dyslexia, causing him to struggle in school. There are lots of similarities and differences between Shawn Grim and Rudy Ruettiger and how they followed through with their dreams of going to college and playing football.

In chapter 1 in starts off telling us about him and his struggles that he is faced with from birth that he can't control. He had freckles, red hair, and he coughed up pink froth because his right lung was full of liquid, which caused strep pneumo a rare strain of pneumonia. With those challenges he gets called many names such as Fireball, Richie Cunningham, Ronald McDonald, and Rudolph the Red- Headed Human, tampon head and many more. Then in chapter 2 Rudy finally starts to learn how to block all the negative energy and name calling out.

All throughout the movie you can see Rudy’s determination to do his best. This is not only showed in his classes and on the practice field but also when he tells the others not to lighten up because he was only trying to help them win their next game. As much as the players were tired of hearing about how much they needed to work as hard as Rudy from their coaches, he showed them what it looked like to be fully committed. They practiced hard together and at every practice Rudy would get hit hard into the ground multiple times, but he always managed to get back up and keep playing. The one time Matteus was easy on Rudy, both Rudy and Coach Yonto yelled at him that he needed to always give one hundred percent. After that moment they realized

As a parent explaining Rudy’s actions, I would tell him that your admiration for one athlete can be extremely exuberant but painting yourself his skin color in this time where prejudice of different people was very high, it clearly isn’t the smartest move. The itch in my heart is that it is morally wrong to paint yourself black and if you go that extreme with your admiration, Rudy can honestly be taken and have a higher chance to be killed by Nazi Germany.

The movie Hoop Dreams shows you the difficulties and obstacles that come in the way of dreams. Although it's said that if you believe in a dream long enough it will come true, but in Hoop Dreams and A Raisin in the Sun you are shown the harsh realities of the falseness of that statement. And that the reality of a dream not coming true hits you like a brick wall.

The second aspect that was noticed bout Rudy was the dedication that he kept consistent. No matter how hard times may have seemed to Rudy, he was too stubborn to give up. He didn't have the grades to attend Norte Dame, so what did he do? He walked into a small catholic school and applied there. He did this to earn credit and to eligible for the fall semester at Norte Dame. That fall semester Rudy got into the school of his dreams and immediately became a hitting dummy for the Football team. Kenneth Turan wrote a review on the movie and he states "It meant a lot for Rudy to play football for Norte Dame, his obsessed determination begins to look more inspirational as the movie goes on" (1).

The young Rudy grants humanity to someone who is commonly dehumanized when he retrieves a book for Liesel, feeds the jews bread, and gives the teddy bear to the dying pilot. Liesel is a young girl who has had a tough life. She has lost her biological mother, lost her brother, and he has been stationed at a foster home. Rody jumps into Liesel’s life, and giver her comfort through all the pain she has faced. One day, a bully threw Liesel's new book into the river and Rudy stood up for her when he “Jumped in, caught up to it, and held it in his right hand” (241). When Rudy retrieved this book, he was acting out against the bullying that Liesel faced, and he was acting in support of Liesel. Just as Hans Hubermann handed out bread to Jews, Rudy and Liesel do the same. This act could get Rudy in heaps of trouble, but he does so anyways in protest to the dehumanization of the Jews. We know Rudy and liesel are very happy and proud when they support humanity as “There was the trace of a grin on

I was surprised when I read this passage since I did not expect a ten year-old to swear. As a result, this passage gives me the feeling that nobody has ever taught Rudy that swearing is inappropriate. Also, from my experience, when a person swears, it often indicates that they are disagreeable, argumentative, and rude. Similarly in this case, Rudy is using a swear word to complain about the fact that he is covered in mud. Therefore, I think the author is trying to reveal to the reader that Rudy is not a mature person as he is unable to handle this situation