Jesse Owens Character Traits

After watching the movie Race I learned so many amazing things about the main character Jesse Owens and his incredible life journey and the tough road he took to reach his achievements as a African-American runner. Jesse Owens was not only looked down upon by the United States, but also by Germany and many other countries. The reasons for this is one thing only, he was black.
Jesse Owens was an extraordinary man as in his era of the early 1900’s. The film Rac overviews Jesse’s life since the day he was born (September of 1913). Jesse had an enormous family and was the youngest of ten, born in Alabama, racial issues were very tense for his family or for any black family. He was 9 when the moved to Ohio for a better living, his family and friends used to call him J.C, one day during attendance his teacher called his name and his southern accent made it sound like he said Jesse, hence where he received his new name. As his life went on racial tension did not decrease as in the film they make it very obvious as he has a hard time going to highschool or really making it anywhere without being yelled at or put down. He soon

Some real parts was that as a child Jesse was a cotton picker, and his coach Larry Snyder did actually train black athletes, no matter the consequences. Jesse had a lot of stress from both sides. More fictional scenes came from this, the movie director had to add more drama to these parts, therefor people would stay intrigued. This is why it was written the way it was, for drama and excitement. Something that can be learned from this film is Jesse's courage and his bravery. As a black man in a racist country, he stood tall and didn't let that end his dreams. Then he made it into the Olympics where he faced even more racial tension among Germany and Hitler, no matter what he faced and who put him down he didn't let that stop