Reflection "Running Brave" 2

Identity is a person's conception and expression of their own and others' individuality or group affiliations. Identity may be defined as the distinctive characteristic belonging to any given individual, or shared by all members of a particular social category or group. At the last class we saw the second part of the movie “Running Brave”, in this part of the film we see how Billy's life begins to change.  Coach begins to change the running style of Billy, people are mocking about his identity. Billy felt that the coach would not let him be the same, because the coach wanted to change the way he run. The coach was saying that the Indians liked surrender, and Billy said, "I'll do just what you said, I'm out". Billy got tired of holding on and decided to resign. Billy asks his girlfriend to go away together, but she refused and Billy returned to the tribe he came from. I think Billy left because he felt it was not the same, he felt he were stealing their identity and forced him to have another identity. In the tribe were surprised when they saw Billy, because they believed that would never return. Billy returned to his brother's house. He practiced some activities with his tribe and he could see that he had not forgotten to be Indian. I could see in the movie was that identity is something that each of us carries inside and whatever happens, you will always be what you are, because that is your identity. Always going to try to change who you really are, but that will not be possible because what's inside of you is your essence, your soul, your culture, is you. I think the message of this movie is that you know who you wherever you go and always be the same. There will always be obstacles in the way, but you must remember who you are and where you come from, because that's what defines you as a person.

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.