Reflection on "Running Brave"

On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 in the class “Journey In Literature” I saw the film “Running Brave”. This movie is about the life of the Billy Mills, the second Native American to win an Olympic gold medal on 1964 in Tokyo, breaking the Olympic record with a time twenty eight minutes with twenty seconds. The story of Billy Mills impressed me because despite all the problems he had, he found the way to overcome them. During high school Billy Mills got prepared to complete his dream and goal of getting the opportunity to run in the Olympics games. In the movie shows how he won a high school cross country competition. After that race the coach of Kansas University was interest on his performance and took him to run in his team. At the University Billy suffer many discriminated incidents, but that didn’t stop him. During college they refused to go to the Olympics games, but Billy did not surrender until he fulfilled his dream of running in theOlympics and won.At the internal journey of Billy Mills I could see that despite all the problems around him, he never gave up. Billy had economic and emotional problems, economic problems took their father to fight for money and those fights cost his life, leaving Billy orphan. I think that these problems helped him to get motivated, and thanks to his suffering he had the courage to achieve his goal.In the external journey of Billy Mills I could see that all things were around Billy not discouraged him. Racism and discrimination were never an obstacle to Billy, though sometimes lost the control. Although Billy was not chosen for the first time for the Olympic team he don’t stop, until finally he got to be part of the team and won the race breaking the record. Billy Mills is an example for all to follow, shows that everything can be possible if you really wanted.