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- Using a combination of tough love and encouragement, Pete forces Louie to take up athletics—and gives his younger brother a new, redemptive purpose in life. He both challenges and helps Louie to excel, and shows Louie that he can be more than just another street kid destined to spend his life in prison.
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Though Louie doesn’t have nearly as much experience as the rest of the field, he is willing to run and train harder than anyone else. The heat makes it incredibly difficult to train and race, but Louie is fully committed to finishing in the top three.
On campus at the University of Southern California, Louie enjoys himself and trains hard, eyes still on the 1940 gold medal. He becomes very close with the track team, who spend much time at Louie’s parents’ house in Torrance.
Pete forces Louie to train, and soon Louie, who has natural talent and speed, starts to win races. Under Pete’s coaching, Louie does almost nothing but run. By the time he is 16 years old, Louie is beating college athletes and winning track meets with regularity. Pete’s intervention works.
Louie’s embarrassment reveals that a fear of losing his pride and self-respect motivates him to run. But fear is not sufficient for actually making him enjoy running – Louie’s resentment foreshadows his slip back into his delinquent ways.
How do Louie and Phil Survive on the raft after the crash? Does the war ruin Louie’s abilities as a runner? What happens to the POWs in Ofuna, Omori, and Naoetsu?
The memory motivates Louie, giving him the will to run as hard as he can for the last lap. Louie finishes in seventh place, but clocks the fastest last lap in Olympic history. After the race, a Nazi official says that Adolf Hitler would like to meet him.
At one point, however, Louie actually does try to run away from home, but he gets kicked off a train and has to walk home over the course of two days. After that epic fail, Louie devotes his time to running the mile and starts breaking records.
