Crazy For The Storm Norman Ollestad Character Analysis

Determination is the firmness of purpose. It is also one of the major keys to being successful and achieving goals in life and Norman Ollestad in Crazy for the Storm shows how determination can be the difference between life and death when it comes to challenges and achieving goals. During the survival memoir Norman experiences many challenges in his young teenage life but one challenge in particular changes Norman’s life drastically. In the book Crazy for the Storm Norman Ollestad is a young teenage boy growing up in southern California and the late 1970’s to the early 1980’s. Norman doesn’t always have it easy either. Most of the time he lives with his mom who is kind and understanding and her husband Nick who is strict and can be unpredictable …show more content…
He had learned a valuable lesson on the mountain that day that he realized his dad had been trying to show him his whole life. Norman could have easily gave up and quit but his dad’s lectures kept flowing through his brain forcing him to push on and he eventually found himself at the bottom of the mountain. Norman’s success at reaching the bottom was not because of luck and neither was his first place trophy but it was because of his determination to reach that goal and overcome the challenges he faced. A person’s success is not based on the people they know or their ability it is based on their determination to succeed and achieve for themselves and to let themselves know that they can do whatever they put their mind to. Their determination and attitude towards the situation is what helps them reach the goals they set and achieve success. And that’s what I think that the author was trying to relay to the reader as the theme for the book. One of the reasons I say that is because of an example in the book. After getting down the mountain one of the news reporters asked him how did he have the effort to make it down the mountain and he answered, “my dad always said to never give