Essay On The Movie Rudy

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Today I watched Rudy an inspirational football movie. In Rudy, a young boy named named Daniel Ruettiger, who was nicknamed Rudy, has a dream of going to the University of Notre Dame, and playing on the football team. Everyone tells him that he can’t do it. He gets a job at a steel mill, where his best friend, Pete, died in an explosion. He then goes over to South Bend, and talks to a priest. The priest helps him get enrolled into Holy Cross College. Holy Cross College is a junior college, located near Notre Dame. If he got good grades, he hoped he could get into Notre Dame. He secretly got onto the football field, and meets a groundskeeper, Fortune. Rudy offered to work for free, and he ended up being paid minimum wage. Having no place to sleep, he would sneak into Fortune’s office at night, …show more content…
Rudy then makes a new friend, D-Bob. He becomes Rudy’s tutor, and in exchange, Rudy helps him meet girls. It is then revealed Rudy has dyslexia. During Christmas Vacation, he returns to his family, and is teased for playing football, also losing his fiancee to one of his brothers. He is finally able to live his dream of going to Notre Dame, since during his last semester in which he had a chance to transfer, he is admitted to Notre Dame. He travels home, where his success is announced at the steel mill, over the loudspeaker. He tries out for football, and is given a place on the practice team. The coach promises that Rudy will get at least one dress day, but steps down as coach before Rudy gets his dress day. He sees that he is not on the list for the last game, and quits out of anger. Fortune convinces him that he would regret quitting, so he returns to the team. All the seniors want Rudy to be able to play, and put their jerseys on the coach's desk, asking for Rudy to play in their place in the final game. The coach decides to acknowledge the requests, and Rudy gets to participate in the last play of the

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