The Red Headed Hawaiian Essay

“Sometimes it’s better to be different” is a big take away from the book because it shows that beginning original is a good thing. “The Red-Headed Hawaiian” by Chris Mckinley and Rudy Puana is about life lessons and how hard work and dedication pays off and can get you anywhere. It is also about a redheaded boy from Kahalu’u, Oahu that was dealt with many difficulties as a child but later in life achieved in life. It reveals that people usually give up but if they work hard and are persistent, it can get them many things. Rudy makes achievements and sacrifices to maintain his life in order to achieve his goals. In the beginning of the book, Rudy is bullied in school for his skin color and his hair because it was different from everyone else. In that time it was harder for him to focus and get good grades. In the foreword it says, “Kids teasing me by singing Rudy the Red-headed-human durings the holidays.” Rudy gets Hawaiian from both his parents however, his mother is fair skinned with dirty blonde hair. It must have been hard to hear those kinds of means things as a child growing up. Doubtfully as well, he
Rudy is doing all these things because he was now determined to become a Doctor. He’s graduated from UH Manoa and is now going on to Texas University for Medical school. In Chapter 5 page 123 it says, “Spent sleepless nights studying.” He did have to make sacrifices in order to stay focused on what he doing. Rudy never gave up until he became a MD. Later on became a dark time for him because so many deaths were happening and he was the one who usually “pulled the plug.” He eventually was able to look past it but was in need of a vacation so him and his wife Lynn went to Hilo. After his trip it helped to remind him of what home is like with the greenery and “country” life resulting a detox from mainland