Prompt #8
People go through many changes throughout their life. They encounter many of these changes at an early age, theses encounters can change a person in many different ways. Louies life is like a rollercoaster, he has his down time during his childhood, his up times in high school, the twist and turns during early adulthood, and the last up and downs in his later adulthood. At the end of the coaster he find the happiness.
Louie the main character of this story starts out as delinquent. He robs, gets in fights all the time, and gets in trouble all the time. When he enters high school he figures he needs to change. In the beginning of high school he got himself into a lot of trouble but his little brother Pete stood up for him, and that saved him. To keep Louie outa trouble his brother Pete got Louie into track. he was terrible at runner in his first year on the track. His brother didn't give up thought to help him train to become better. When his father died he ran away from home. Soon after he came home and got serious about track. He ended up competing against college kids.
He surpassed his coaches and teachers expectations and made a new record for high school milers. Soon later he became an Olympian. On the way to the first Olympics completion he felt at home, the reason why because everyone else seem to steal everything that wasn't bolted down. When they got to there destination the sign of the war was everywhere. The Olympics went on as planned, Louie got into second but had the fastest finish. H gained a new title from it. He went on to college and was determined to break the four minute mile. He competed in the 1938 NCAA championships and won, but was badly injured by the other runners. He set the new record which lasted for the next fifteen years. With the war looming in present danger, he voluntarily joined the Air Corp to avoid being drafted into the army.
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