The Boys In The Boat

The Boys In The Boat is a nonfiction story written by Daniel James Brown. The true story is about an American rowing team and the team's epic journey to win gold at the 1936 Olympic games. The team from rural Washington state endured many challenges along their path to greatness.The great depression didn’t help these problems any. This group of underdogs if you will take gold away from Hitler at his own games. It is a suspenseful tale of triumph, not only for a medal, but for a way of life. Some of the problems they faced were lack of funds. As a team they had no faith or chemistry to compel them to move forward. Many of the boys on the team were left alone at a very young age when the depression hit. These boys in a boat may have been the
His natural mother died when he was 3 and because of it his father couldn’t cope with his mother’s death and fled to Canada. So Joe went to live with his aunt in Pennsylvania upstairs in the attic of her old house. He didn’t much care for his aunt and never constructed a bond with her while he stayed there. Then a little over a year later Joe’s brother Fred called Joe and asked if Joe would like to move back to Oregon with his father who had recently moved back from Canada and married a woman named Thula. It was a beautiful home that Joe could appreciate. One short month later it was taken from him, it was engulfed in flames. Then they moved to Idaho where Harry (Joe’s dad) worked in a mine. Thula now had three kids of her own and little Joe. She felt that Joe was not her son so she didn’t have to take care of him. This was when she stopped feeding him. As you can see Joe never stayed in one place for long. Not long enough to form a bond with anyone. Joe never put trust in anyone except maybe his father who ran away from him at a very young age. When Joe got left on his own when he was 15 during the great depression, he vowed that he would never trust anyone ever for the rest of his life. Too many times he had found something amazing and had it taken away from him. Whether it was hobbies,
How to make something out of nothing. Many of them coming out of the great depression had to figure things out on their own and had to learn from mistakes they didn’t know they were making. They had to learn how to trust and make mistakes together as a team. Once they overcame this enormous obstacle they were able to fight not only for a gold medal at the Olympics but a way of life. By beating the Germans, they proved that Hitler's superior race of people may not be as superior as the world suspected. When the bombs of world war two went off the world knew that the Germans were beatable. Joe Rantz learned that money didn’t matter, it was what you did to get the money. It was what you learned by making the money. Not the way you were born. Not the way you were raised. Not how much money you had. It’s about how you earn it and what you chose to do with the