Eleven Seconds, by Travis Roy

Review by Caroline

Eleven Seconds, by Travis Roy himself is an inspiring story. Eleven seconds was all it took to change his whole life. His dreams were to play in the Division 1 hockey league and to become a Terrier. His dream to play in the Division 1 hockey league only lasted for 11 seconds. And he was able to be a Boston terrier for a little bit more than 11 seconds, thankfully about a few months. Travis Roy is a kind of person who gets along with almost everyone. Since he has been there for all of his friends and family, they were there for him when his tragedy occurred. So whenever Travis needed to cry with someone, somebody was there for him to cry with. I absolutely loved this book because Travis really persevered. He never complained about not being able to be independent and take care of himself. But again, he never held in his emotions, he said that he felt better after he cried than when he held back his tears. This book makes you realize how lucky you are to be able to actually take care of yourself, walk around, be able to move in any way without having someone else do it to you. But Travis is lucky enough to have a sip and puff wheelchair. So when he wants to move, he would blow into the straw and he would be able to move. And he would take a couple short or long breaths to go either left or right. I don’t know about you, but that makes me appreciate a lot of my capabilities. Just imagine growing up playing a sport for your whole life and then when your dream came true playing on a Division 1 team and then 11 seconds into it, you hurt yourself and get paralyzed. If you read this book, I hope you are inspired as much as I am.