She has two brothers and that is why she always want to be stronger, her parents are both surfer and so by the second she was born she would fall in love with the water.She was the champion of her city's surfing match, and therefore she had a chance to became a professional player. For that, she quit her journey which is to help people after natural disasters and decided to train more in summer holiday.
But Bethany is not lucky, a shark bite her and took away her left arm! She had a tough time, she needed to get used to it and move on her life and of course, get back to water.
It was not easy to surf with one arm, with family's help and her hard-working, Bethany finally went back to water and surf again! She sign up a match and she saw her best friend and her enemy who was last time's champion. This time, Bethany lost cause she couldn't stand on the boat in the wave. She nearly gave up, so she went to help other people which was her plan of this holiday. After a badly tsunami, this city became like a hell, Bethany look at the blue sea and asked:"why there is no one in the water?" and they answered, they are still afraid of the sea, so she tried to let a young boy go into the water with her, she did it step by step and she did it. They had a lot of fun in this blue and beautiful sea, that made other people jump in with them,
When she came back from her journey, something changed inside her, and she talked to her dad that she wanted to go back to the water so much.Her dad just smiled and gave her a special boat.
Bethany joined another match, she saw her best friends and her enemy again. This time she was doing well and at the last few seconds, she felt something and swam forward, then the biggest wave came! everyone else was too late to catch it. in that wave, Bethany saw the view that appeared in her dream when she was bited by the shark.
But when she stood up the time was up, so her best surf didn't count, she said it was okay cause she loved surfing. Her enemy won again, but this time she shared the award with Bethany and said "Bethany Hamilton, nobody is as tough as you.". All the hopeless people wrote letters to her to say thank you and so on, Bethany make your heart full of hopes to the world.
When you beat the odds
And never say never
You find a champion
---<Soul Surfer>
The actress at left and the real Bethany Hamilton at right.
----By Angela Chen