So i have been reading a biography on Jesse Owens and it is very interesting. It has talked about how his parents being sharecroppers and how they had to share a farm with whites because they were poor people. When he was born he wasn't healthy he had sicknesses and people weren't sure if he was going to survive. He had boils which his parents didn't have money to pay to remove or to get rid of them. His mom had to do them herself. She would have to get knife and cut them off. In the book it states that he didn't know if he should cry because he had gone through this so many times and it didn't help to cry.
I think Jesse was a very strong person because he didn't let anything stop him from pursuing his dreams. I know this because in the Olympics which was in Berlin people were criticizing him for being black and saying that he wasn't going to win and that he was going to cheat. Hitler didn't give him a hand shake which offended him but he kept running. This is a very admirable act because if it was me i would have given up. People thought he was nothing compared to the white runners but he beat them all. This shows that he pursued his dreams.
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