Persuasive Essay On Soul Surfer

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When people need to survive, they are willing to go to great lengths and do things they wouldn’t do on a daily basis. In film, TV, and literature, main characters usually face a great obstacle and have to overcome it in unusual ways: a teenager who went through surgery, a patient going through cancer, unfortunate families going through tough times.All of them have a fight for survival.

In the movie “Soul Surfer” Bethany Hamilton loses her arm in a shark attack while surfing with her friends. She was rushed to the hospital in order to survive her attack. She has to live with complications for the rest of her life, and every day she is challenged by doing everything she does. When people get diagnosed with cancer every day they are struggling

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