The Great Evel Knievel

Evel Knievel said, “Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble bgins when you try to land it” (Evel Knievel Biography). Evel Knievel was a great daredevil that lived in the past. Evel Knievel was a brave man who crashed a lot when he did his stunts, yet he was not afraid of failure.

Evel grew up in Butte, Montana where everyone would be in the copper mines some time in their life. “During this time Knievel’s mischievous, which was endearing at a young age, turned into a life of a crime as a young adult. he landed in jail for robbery more than once. When one of his partners was shot, he decided it was time to get his act together and turn back on crime” (Biography Evel Knievel). If Evel did more crime at a young age, he could not achieve what he wanted to do in life. He left the crime behind and started to achieve what he wanted to do in life starting with his bravery and a motorcycle.

Evel pursued his dreams to become famous starting with his motorcycle. Everyone in Butte, Montana knew Evel was the best one in the town on a motorcycle. Evel would set up some dangerous jumps and do crazy stunts. “He rode through fire walls and jumped over live rattlesnakes” (Evel Knievel). Evel practiced doing very risky stunts at a young age with animals, fire, and whatever else he could get his hands on. “With america in the midest of the Vietnam War quagmire, the country was looking for a hero, and Knievel’s heroic, death-defying feats and his popular messages to the word’s youth, promoting abstention from drugs and a healthy lifestyle with a postitive mental attitude quickly transformed him into a national icon” (Biography Evel Knievel). When America was in a tough war, the children’s fathers were out into war and they needed someone to give ...

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...overing, Knievel put on his signature red-white-and blue leathers, got back on a motorcycle, and jumped 50 stacked cars in the Los Angeles Coliseum” (Evel Knievel’s Life). Whenever he was hurt the fans had a lot of trust that he would come back and do another great stunt for them and his fame then go back to the hospital most of the time. “That which did not kill Knievel_as he proved more literally that most_only made him, and his myth, stronger” (Time). Every jump hurt Knievel really bad, but that would not kill him. It would make him try harder to complete his stunts, and he would make the fans like him even more.

Evel Knievel was not afaid of failure, even whe he crashed a lot, but that is what makes him a brave daredevil. “Robert Craig Knievel Jr. died in November after 69 years, which by all means is more than twice as long as it should have taken him” (Time).