Seabiscuit An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Part One:
Section 1- The undersized, unwanted, and restless Seabiscuit comes into the ownership of Charles Howard, who hires a plainsman named Tom Smith to train him and a jockey named Red Pollard to race him. I thought this section was boring and progressing quite slowly, but I found interesting how Howard made the automobile industry successful in an era that didn’t want it. I was also interested in Tom Smith’s method for training racehorses, seeing as how he conditions his animals in a way that makes them feel motivated by the pull of the race rather than the jockey’s whip. It’s amazing how Smith was able to find Howard, as if by fate, when he was unemployed with his talents to be left undiscovered. Red Pollard’s story was also quite interesting to me as well, since he was just a scrappy fighter new to the racetracks yet after meeting Smith became a prominent racer in the sporting world.

Section 2- After long hours of conditioning by “Silent Tom”, Seabiscuit becomes a champion on the race track and …show more content…
I liked reading this section because it was very suspenseful due to the author’s use of syntax and word choice. Hillenbrand starts a new paragraph in a way that causes the reader to crave for more, despite the next line being just centimeters a way. In addition to this, her description of the race was like a transcript from a live announcer at the time of the race, and her account of the story makes me feel as if I were there at the track in real time. I was impressed when reading War Admiral’s race against Seabiscuit because it demonstrated Seabiscuit’s flexibility to race against any competitor even if his usual jockey was not racing him, and it also showed how adaptive Seabiscuit was to his environment since his win conditions were not guaranteed in the