I have chose to read “Terry Fox: His Story” , written by Leslie Scrivener as my book for this assignment. There are a lot of things that I have learned about so far by reading this book. Like some of the symptoms Terry got from his cancer when he was doing the run, like chest pain, blurred vision, dizziness etc. One really important thing that I learned about Terry himself was that Terry was a real fighter because of the amount of pain he had to go through to get all the way to Thunder Bay where he stopped.

Leslie Scrivener did a really good job organizing the ideas of the story. She did that by making it sort of a timeline and all the event’s came in chronological order. She also put some images on a few pages of the book showing Terry’s most valuable memories when he was …show more content…
He show’s all of the characteristics for it, here are some of the many characteristics he has. He shows compassion to what he does and to everyone around him, just by doing the run that he did showed that. He is very Honest and very fair, like when he never skipped a mile and always ran it even when he was in so much pain. He display’s self discipline in setting and meeting goals, I mean there is nothing to argue with there. He shows respect to others, like when he always stopped in different towns and talked to everyone that showed up to the charity events. He shows courage when standing up to his beliefs, I mean nobody believed that Terry would make it so far into his run and raise so much like he did, and Terry believed that he could do that. Finally, He is a good citizen who is concerned about his community and the people around him, He ran a few thousand kilometers for all cancer patients while having an amputated leg. If that doesn’t show that he is a good citizen, then I don’t know what this world is anymore. These are just a few of the many points showing that Terry has a strong sense of