Terry Fox:: A Real Life Hero

On July 28, 1958, an encouraging young man was born who will soon be Canada’s hero of altering the way of how people think and live. Terrence Stanley Fox grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and was a great basketball player and athlete, like all normal people he had a dream, he wanted to tried out for the basketball teams once he graduated from high school. One night, while Terry was driving home, he accidently crashed on to a pickup truck, he felt numbness in his right foot, but was too stubborn to go see a doctor, after finishing his basketball season; Fox woke up one morning with his right knee hurting intensely. When reality strikes, his dreams was shattered. Terry Fox have developed an osteosarcoma in his right knee which is a type of cancer. Terry was told that he right leg was required to be amputated and the success rate was only 50%, failing in the operation results a fear that everyone is anxious and also afraid off; death. Fortunately, the destined hero survive and realize how vital it is to change the way of how people think, he said “Somewhere the hurting must stop....and I was determined to take myself to the limit for this cause.” Terry understood that he must do something to help defeat this threat. The young hero practice for 16 months of running with his new amputated foot and he was set to make a forever change to cancer.

Generally, Terry Fox is a hero because he ran for cancer research perseveringly. Terry believed that he could make it all the way to the cool waves of the Pacific. He dipped his right knee on the coast of the Atlantic and carries 2 bottles of water. He wanted to keep one of them as a souvenir and dump the other one on to the Pacific Ocean. This was a goal Terry had set for himself that h...

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...egretting his actions, and the consequences of it; even death. He had gathered up more than 20 million dollars for cancer research, proving his courage of travelling for 143 days with more than 5000 kilometres of running.

In conclusion, Terry Fox is a hero because he has shown initiative. From the time he started running and raises money for cancer research to time of his unfortunate death. He did not run all those miles in his amputated leg just to become famous, he started all of it for the poor people who are experiencing cancer and handicapped problems. Because of him, annually Terry Fox run was set and with more than 500 million dollars raised, because of his great determination and the inevitably persistence to stop running, he had save many lives and encourages many people to do so as well achieving the pinnacles of admiration and inspiration.