Erich Weiss, also known as Harry Houdini, grew up watching and performing trapeze and magic tricks. He would spend many hours practicing for his future career as a magician. Harry Houdini is known for his famous escapes from hand-cuffs, crates, and water tanks. Houdini resembles commitment to personal growth in his life by training and practicing his tricks so his body would be ready for when he would perform. Houdini would make sure he was perfectly applicable for his stunts and acts before he would perform them to the audience.
As a young boy Houdini was fascinated in trapeze and circus acts. As Houdini grew up he practiced circus acts such as the trapeze standing on a pole. He was always learning new magic tricks and death defying stunts. Soon Houdini was noticed by Martin Beck, who hired Houdini to perform at famous venues. Houdini became famous for his amazing escape acts.
Houdini was exceptionally well known for his amazing escapes especially his hand-cuff escape and straight jacket escape. Houdini would get a challenging act and overcome his challenge no matter the cost. To this day Harry Houdini (Erich Weiss) was and still is the greatest escape artist that has ever lived. After becoming a magician Houdini also became a movie director and stared in his own movies.
In all of Houdini’s life he overcame many adversities and challenges. Houdini would go into a stunt with confidence and would accomplish his escapes in a mind-boggling way leaving people wondering “how in the hell he did that.” Houdini having a life of moving around didn’t lose faith in his dreams and followed them even through all the tough times. Houdini would complete his act even though he was weak or unsure, he still would take a step foreword and accomplish great things. Houdini truly is the greatest escape artist who was faced with many trials and errors but still overcame it all just to follow his childhood dream.
Throughout Houdini’s life he accomplished and overcame many things in his life. His greatest accomplishment was fulfilling his dream and making it came true. Houdini truly resembles a person who started out with something small and made it into something big and grand. He made himself a life. We all have that ability. It’s our dream we have as a child. What we do with that dream is what matter. We all can over come the greatest challenge in our life and fulfill our dreams. We all have one we cling to. If we do whatever we can and whatever it takes to follow them and make them come true, we too can fulfill our dreams just like harry Houdini did. When we live our dream that’s when we truly have lived.
Work Sited
Mullin, Rita Thievon. Death Defying Showman. New York: Sterling, 2007
A&E Television Networks. Harry Houdini Biography. Bio.true story Biography.com. (2011) March 14, 2011 http://www.biography.com/articles/Harry-Houdini-40056
1 comment:
1-I thought that you did well at describing the general idea of Houdini. Using good descriptive words and telling about his accomplishments throughout his life.
2-I think you could do better at going into detail on his greatest accomplishment, give one idea or example in detail. It was general and an overview of a bunch of accomplishments.
3-I didn't know that Houdini started doing stunt acts when he was a kid. I thought it was interesting that he is now the best escape artist because he studied his entire life.
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