Book Summary: Soul Surfer By Bethany Hamilton

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This month I read a fantastic autobiography called Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton. In this autobiography Bethany explains her story about being attacked by a shark while surfing with her friends one day. Surfing is Bethany’s favorite sport, her whole entire life and family revolves around surfing. During the attack she loses her arm, and she thinks that might be the end of her surfing career. She now has to learn how to live life, only having one arm. “I don’t think much about it or worry about how I look with one arm… maybe I look a little different without it, but that’s okay. I’m cool being me” This passage is significant because in the beginning all Bethany worries about is how she is going to look with only one arm, or how she is …show more content…

She did not think she would be able to surf ever again but she still gave it a try. Just when she was about to give up because she fell too many times, she said “a wave rolled through, I caught it, put my hand on the deck to push up and I was standing” (Hamilton 288). Her problems were quickly resolved because all of her doubts were now gone. She had nothing to worry about because she knew she could now continue her surfing career even with one arm. I liked how the author told me about her family and her background so you almost felt as if you were apart of her family. She explained how both her parents surfed their whole lives and that's where she gets her passion for the sport. She said “Dad loved to surf almost as much as mom. He lived in New Jersey as a boy and surfed all of the time in the summer, then he got older and flew to Hawaii to surf, where he met mom and then they had me and my brothers” (Hamilton 119). This really helped me understand how they ended up living in Hawaii, and why the whole family loved surfing. I enjoyed every page of Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton. I never wanted to stop reading because I knew something good was going to happen next! I hope if you read this wonderful autobiography about a girl’s tough journey, you will enjoy it as much as I

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