Jesse Owens Themes

This is an autobiography about Jesse Owens. This particular selection informs you about a famous african-american track runner and olympic gold medalist. The author's purpose for writing this book was to present to us how jesse owens beat all odds and did the impossible. “In less than an hour, he had set or tied four world records.” page 45 Track runners and civil rights activists would be interested in this book because, Jesse Owens was a famous athlete and he was persecuted by Hitler after he won four gold medals by refusing to meet the athlete. The author uses descriptive language to explain the life of Jesse Owens and his amazing feats such as breaking four world records. The central idea of this selection is that you can be anything you want to be if you try hard enough, my proof of this is that he became the first man to win four gold medals in an hour, that is no small task. A pasig that strongly implies the main idea“No one before or since has matched that feat.” page 45

Response to the selection
The topic is obvious because, it is all centered around one topic Jesse Owens. The details are helpful because, they helped me understand concepts I didn't know about like track and field competitions. I can connect with the others feelings because, he feels strongly against racism, he implies this by focusing on racism aimed at Jessy. This book helps me understand people and events because, it tells Jesse Owens life story beginning to end. Overall I rate this book great because it tells the life story of an important athleat. A question I had was has anyone beaten even one of Owens records, my question was not