Soul Surfer

AnnaSophia Robb portrayed a courageous 13-year-old girl named Bethany Hamilton in the 2011 movie Soul Surfer.
On October 31, 2003 a 14 foot (4.3m) Tiger Shark bit off her arm just under the shoulder. In the movie AnnaSophia showed how calm Bethany probably was when the incident actually happened. That same day Bethany's dad was supposed to have a knee sugary, but was interrupted with a nurse saying that a girl had been in a shark attack. Upon hearing this Bethany's dad started to freak out thinking it was his daughter. When he found out that the girl who was in the attack was Bethany he wanted to see her right away.

Bethany lost 60% of her blood that day. It was a miracle that she survived. Shortly after the attack Bethany wanted to get back into the water as soon as she could.
Bethany started to work hard to get back into shape to compete again. She had to make her right arm stronger to make up for the loss of her left arm, so she started to do one handed chin ups and push ups. She started with some help but as her arm got stronger she started doing them by herself. Her dad even made her a special surf board that enabled her to duck dive under a wave without loosing her board.

The way the directors made this movie was amazing, especially the shark attack. The effects that they used on AnnaSophia's arm to make it appear not there like Bethany's was amazing. This movie was really well done. I enjoyed watching it. If you want to know more about Bethany go onto bethanyhamilton.com to find out more about this courageous person.

The following list has all the awards that Bethany had won from her website http://bethanyhamilton.com

AWARDS/HONORS

• Belief.net “Most inspiring Person of the Year” award – Finalist (2003)
• First Pitch Honoree for both the Oakland A’s (2004) and the New York Yankees (2005)
• ESPY Award (by ESPN) – Comeback Athlete of the Year (July 2004)
• FOX Teen Choice Awards – Courage Award (2004)
• Wahine O Ke Kai (Woman of the Sea) Award at the SIMA Waterman’s Ball (2004)
• Gene Autry Award – Courage and Inspiration Values (2004)
• Mildred “Bob” Didrikson Zacharias Courage Award from the United States Sports Academy (USSA) (2005)
• USA Today – Free Spirit Award (2005)
• Honolulu Citizens Award (2005)
• Woman of the Year from Gorbachev (Germany) (2004)
• Olympic Torch Honoree – Hawaii’s First Ever Triathlon (2004)
• Honolulu Citizens Award (2005)
• Woman of the Year from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (2006)

Images found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethany_Hamilton and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Surfer_%28film%29