Nonfiction Blog 11-30-15

The Nonfiction that I am reading right now is Bruce Lee Fighting Spirit by Bruce Thomas. As anyone can tell by the title, the book is a biography on Bruce Lee. It tells us everything that had happened in his life, from his birth all the way to his sudden demise. Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940 to Grace Ho and Lee Hoi-chuen. His mother had given him a girls name to confuse the spirits. She named him Sai Fon which means Small Phoenix. She had wanted to confuse the spirits because her second child is supposed to be a girl, but instead of a girl, Bruce was born. While growing up he had gain fame when he was a child actor. He had many different kinds of roles in the movies. It was said that even though that he liked to learn he didn't like school. Growing up he would get in trouble a lot, he even formed his own gang in college. The gang was formed because of their hatred of the British. His gang and a British gang would get into fight's a lot, and most of the fights would either end with the police coming or all of the members of a gang would not be able to fight anymore. His mother would protect him from his father by not telling him that Bruce had gotten into a fight. Although when he had an injury that was visible, she could not hide the fact that he had gotten into a fight. He eventually got expelled from college and kept looking for one unti he had found one. Eventually he formed an actual street gang. Later he then started training in Kung-Fu with a now deceased master. 

The short passage that I find interesting is "...his brother Peter recalls that Bruce already had ambitions to become a doctor. At home Bruce spent many hours reading in bed. But while he was very interested in learning, Bruce was not much interested in schooling." This made it interesting for me because I have never heard of a person that likes to learn but he does not like school. Plus he wanted to become a doctor and to be a doctor you have to go to school, and if he doesn't want to go to school then he can't become a doctor. Another reason that I found that short passage interesting is because he wanted to become a doctor. He was a famous martial artist, but he wanted to become a doctor. Both those things are very different, so I am wondering why did he want to become a doctor and end up becoming a famous martial artist.

 One thing that I learned is when he was born his mother gave him a girls name, she had named him Sai Fon which means Small Phoenix. Another thing that I learned and I am most likely not to forget is that while he was growing up he wanted to become a doctor, and he ended up becoming a famous martial artist and movie star. I am never going to end up forgetting that while he was at school he ended up forming a gang, who knew that someone as famous as him would be so much trouble when he was growing up. So those are the things that I have learned and I will not most likely to forget in the near future.

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