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Lesson 12
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Penny Wingert, Profound moments when son dies. When he excepts Red as a whole human being flawed and all. When Red gib
yes up his leg for his friend. When Sea biscuit wins the race. What I learned from this was never give up and help others.
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Penny Wingert, Profound moment Praying and asking God for help, deciding to meet aliens and bargain with them , building an arc and sailing to save themselves. What I Learne d is getting into actions that can help.
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Madeleine’s Seabiscuit Analysis
What I learned doing this assignment is how to analyze profound moments in an underdog movie. Very inspiring!
SEABISCUIT’S profound moments:
1. In the whore house, Red watches a woman let down her slip. From his point of view, he sees only half the frame, the torn screen of the window and some peeling wallpaper.
In a flashback, his trainer asks him, “How do you miss a hole like that?”
George Woolf shoots through a hole that Red didn’t see..
In another flashback, we see Red in a boxing match pummeled in his left eye. The socket is swollen shut.
Back to the scene with the whore, we see Red look to his right to see the whore, now standing in the good side of the frame.
The profound moment: Now, we know, Red is blind in his left eye.
What made this moment profound for me is that we watched all those things happen to Red, not realizing that his reckless lifestyle was the cause of his losing the race. Now, suddenly, we know his lifestyle has rendered him blind in one eye.
2. Tom Smith takes the big white stallion away from the men who would shoot him for a game leg. No money in it; makes no sense. But then later, we see him in conversation with Howard, who wants to know why Smith is fixing up the stallion if he’s never race again. Smith’s response is a profound moment:
“Every horse is good for somethin’. He could be a car horse or a lead pony. He’s still nice to look at… You don’t throw a whole life away just cause it’s banged up a little.”
This was a profound moment for me because, I’d just seen Red, exposed as being blind in one eye and his racing career most likely over because of it.
3. Seabiscuit has been abused and walked in circles so long he doesn’t remember what he was born to do, that he’s a racehorse. Then he meets Red, who is beat up and blind in one eye. They’re an unlikely pair. The question becomes, can Seabiscuit learn to be a racehorse again, and is Red the jockey to do it?
When Red takes Seabiscuit out for a ride, they both come alive. The race is on, and Red says to Seabiscuit, “Cmon, Buddy. Don’t stop. Don’t ever stop.
This was a profound moment for me because it was like a love story, a romance where it’s love at first sight, in this case, first ride. Beautiful!
4. Howard’s garage returns to being a horse stable. Smith has a new job. Seabiscuit has a new home. Red sleeps in Frankie’s bed.
This was a profound moment to me because it pointed to the healing relationship developing among Seabiscuit, Red, Smith, and Howard. They are an unlikely family, as so many are, heading toward being a winning family. Every single one of them have been granted a second chance.
- Seabiscuit loses to Rosemont because Red can’t see. Smith is angry because Red didn’t tell them about his blindness handicap. But Howard’s response is something different. “Nobody’s “perfect.” Later, he announces to the reporters, “Red Pollard will remain as Seabiscuit’s jockey, now and forever…”
This response is the antithesis of what we’d expect. Howard should have fired Red, but he didn’t. Instead, they are more determined than ever to have a context between Seabiscuit and War Admiral.
Now, it’s an underdog story: West vs. East. We’re rooting for the too short horse and the too tall jockey.
- After Red is badly hurt breezing a skittish two-year-old, his friend, the Ice Man, agrees to ride for him on Seabiscuit against War Admiral. Red and Smith coach the Ice Man until he knows Seabiscuit like the back of his hand. Seabiscuit wins.
This was a profound moment for me because Red, who should have been so depressed he couldn’t stay awake, tutors his friend how to win for him on Seabiscuit. It’s such a generous act. The message here is winning isn’t just about being self-interested. It’s also about letting go and opening up to reality. Lovely!!
- After Seabiscuit ruptures a ligament in his leg, the veterinarian tells Howard, he’s not going to race again. He says, “I’ll put him down if you want me to.” Howard punches the veterinarian in the jaw.
Both Seabiscuit and Red are crippled. They heal together. Seabiscuit mends first.
Then, together, Red on Seabiscuit win at Santa Anita!!! They’ve done the impossible.
The profound moment for me was the ending where horse and rider cross the finish line together—Victorious! Wow!
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Madeleine Turns Insights Into Action
What I learned doing this assignment is giving insight through action can be very profound. It’s more effective than using dialogue to make the profound point.
New ways and insights turned into action.
· Tony returns home to recover from PTSD. He’s seen enough carenage for a lifetime. But almost as soon as he returns to the land, he meets Anna-Maude, who kills a viper right in front of him.
New Way Insight: Coming home may not be as peaceful as he had imagined.
· Anna-Maude is used to successfully taking care of her farm, her uncle, and herself without requiring assistance from anyone else. But then her Uncle Jack is murdered in her horse corral, and she must depend on Sheriff Sergeant Mike Williams to find the culprit.
New Way Insight: Anna-Maude sits on Jack’s porch watching as the crime scene investigation unfolds. She’s helpless to do anything herself, and she must accept this.
· Anna-Maude notices a cyclist entering the farmhouse of the property across the road from her farm. Charging over there, she demands that the cyclist, Tony, leave. He doesn’t budge.
New Way Insight: Anna-Maude must retreat and call the Sheriff to remove the trespasser.
· After rescuing the same cyclist from being drowned in an irrigation ditch, she takes him home and treats his wounds only to realize he’s not a stranger. He’s Tony, an estranged childhood friend, who blames her for his sister’s disappearance and his mother’s drowning. She suspects he might be Jack’s murderer, but when she looks inside Tony’s gun safe, there’s nothing in it.
New Way Insight: Anna-Maude is wrong about Tony.
· After her farmhouse is broken into by a burglar, she assures Sheriff Sergeant Mike Williams that she has a shotgun and a dog. She can take care of herself. Next thing she knows, her house is set on fire by a killer, and if not for Tony rescuing her, she would be fried.
New Way Insight: Anna-Maude may be armed and dangerous, but she’s no match for the killer on her own.
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