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                                                            Aunna Herstad

                                                                                                            4-24-07

                                                                                                            Essay 5

Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken 

            No matter how much we try to avoid problems in life we never can.  College students need to see Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken because everyone deals with the death of someone they knew, school problems, money issues, and life changing situations.  I have had my own problems, but nothing compares to being a person that used to be able to do normal everyday things, and then one day getting into an accident and finding out that they will be a paraplegic , or a quadriplegic. I used to work as a home health care aid, and I had a client that this had happened to. 

            Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken is about a young girl Sonora Webster who lives with her aunt and younger sister during the Depression. 
Sonora has problems with school and the only thing she can find peace with is riding the horse at her aunts.  One day a bunch of kids walking to school dared her she could not jump a fence on this horse so she got on and did it but the fence got knocked down.  When she was coming home from school she saw that her horse was being taken away her aunt had soled him.  She ended up running away that night because she felt like she had nothing left.

            She traveled to
Atlanta “the city of dreams” where the fair was taking place to try and find a job.  She was watching one of the shows going on it was horse high diving.  This is when a person is waiting on top of like a big diving board and the horse runs up it and the person jumps on and then they jump off into the big pool. 
Sonora knew this is what she wanted to do with the love she had for horses. 
Sonora ended up talking to the owner whose name is Doc Carter and persuades him into hiring her.

            Later in the movie
Sonora proves to Doc that this is what she really wants to do. After practicing over and over Doc got
Sonora her own horse that she had to train to see if she really had what it took. 
Sonora ends up becoming a huge star, and one day while doing a show she forgot to close her eyes when she hit the water.  They called the doctor to check her out and he said that she would be blind for the rest of her life.

            As most people would be she was angry.  It took her awhile to adjust to being blind, but she did it. 
Sonora told Doc Carter that no matter what happened to her she wanted to try and do the jumping blind he didn’t think that it was a good idea, but after she bugged him enough he gave in.  He made her start from scratch, and learn how to listen, and feel for the horse coming around so that she could jump on.

            Critics might say that this film is for women, and its not. Guys enjoy comedy which the movie does have, and the movie is not emotional enough to make you cry.  It just shows you how life is, and how someone that is around college students’ age deals with it.

            In the end she was able to do it and was still a star.  This movie showed me no matter how little, or big the problem is you can overcome it, and adapted to certain lifestyles as long as you try and really want it.  Just like the quad I used to take care of no matter what the limits were he would push them just to prove that he could still do some things on his own as he did when he was an able bodied person.