The Red Headed Hawaiian Rudy

This quarter I chose to read “The red-headed hawaiian”, by Rudy Puana, M.D., and Chris Mckinney, published may 1, 2014. This book is about a young man named Rudolph Puana, who is known as Rudy. Rudy lives in Kahalu’u, Oahu with his three sisters and mom and dad. Rudy’s dad is hawaiian and his mom is caucasian, Rudy is somehow white with red hair. So this makes him stand out in his small town of locals. Rudy's dad is a typical big hawaiian, pidgin speaking man, who “runs the place”. However Rudy’s mom is quite the opposite, in fact she doesn’t like his lifestyle at all. She doesn’t allow any pigeon-talk in her house, and she insists on sending all of her kids to private school. Both of his parents work very hard because they want him to go places and get off of the island. Rudy didn’t have his priorities straight for a long time, he was getting bad grades, he would smoke and drink and party. And then one day he decided that he didn't want to live like that anymore, and he decided to become a doctor. And after long hours of hard work and dedication , he achieved his goal . This story is about his long journey to leaving behind a troublesome life and doing something great. I overall really liked this book, i liked that it was about a person living in hawaii because i could relate to some parts. It was also cool to see how anyone can change their life if …show more content…
It was the kids that bullied Rudy for being white with red hair. The reason i don’t like them is because they were mean to Rudy for no reason. I couldn’t decide on a single character that was so bad to label “my least favorite character “ so i chose the bullies. I think that bullying is wrong, but it is especially bad when you bully them for something they can’t change like their skin color or looks. The bullies really upset Rudy but I think that it is part of what helped him become a doctor. He wanted to prove everyone wrong, he wanted to show them what he could