soul surfer
Bethany Hamilton
Overview
Soul Surfer is a moving account of Bethany's life as a young surfer, her recovery after the attack, the adjustments she's made to her unique surfing style, her unprecedented bid for a top showing in the World Surfing Championships, and, most fundamentally, her belief in God.
Main character
the main character bethany hamilton is an amzing role model. she survived a crazy shark attack in her home town kauai hawaii in 2003. Bethany Meilani Hamilton was born on February 8, 1990, in lihue, kauai, hawaii. Her parents and two older brothers were all surfers. Hamilton started surfing when she was young and won her first competition at age eight. She was homeschooled after sixth grade so she could devote more time to surfing. in her shark attack she lost her full arm. she stayed strong and iddnt let a shark take her life away and she stayed competeing.
here is bethany hamilton with the surfer board she was using during her attack.
this is where Bethany Hamilton is from.
starts surfing
beBethany started her journey surfing at 8 years old in this exact location.
the shark attack
On October 31, 2003, Hamilton, aged 13 at the time, went for a morning surf along Tunnels Beach, Kauai, with her best friend Alana Blanchard, Alana's father and brother. While she was lying on her surfboard belly-down and talking with Alana, a 14-foot-long (4.3 m) tiger shark attacked her.
where everything hap
the hospital
this was the hospital that help her right after the attack.
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where she lives now
bethany hamiliton now lives in this area in an amazing home.
dilemma: a huge conflict was she was surfing one morning with her best friend and he the brother and dad. as they went a little far there was a shark under them while they were trying to swim in. the shark got to her and was pulling her under. she got away but she did lose her arm from the shark. the shark completely bit it off and she is now spending the rest of her life with one arm. she did bleed a lot after the attack but she survived and is totally healthy. she lives a normal life
the place of her first comp after she was bit
