Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee

Christian Estrada March

22, 1996 Literature-07

Biography Report

Introduction

Bruce Lee was born in the Chinese year of the dragon, in the hour of the dragon on November 27, 1940. From the beginning, it was obvious he was a remarkable and unique child with tremendous energy. His mother named him Lee

Jun Fan, which meant "return again." She felt he would return to the United

States where he was born while his parents were on tour with the Cantonese opera.

A nurse suggested he be called Bruce as an American name for him.

Childhood

Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco at the Jackson Street Hospital in

Chinatown. When he and his family returned to Hong Kong in 1941, he was called

Sai Fon, which meant "small phoenix", a feminine name. Bruce had an older brother who died as a baby. The Chinese blamed this on evil spirits or demons who take the lives of male babies to destroy the family's name. So they dressed

Bruce in little girls clothing and called him Sai Fon.

When they returned to Hong Kong, the Lee household consisted of Mr. Lee, his wife Grace Lee, Bruce's two sisters, Agnes and Phoebe, his older brother

Peter, and later to be joined his little brother Robert.

Bruce grew up in a very crowded house. He lived in a two bedroom flat.

Upon the death of Mr. Lee's brother, he, as in Chinese custom, had to taken in his whole brother's Family and had to be the provider. This meant nearly 20 people lived in the flat.

It was through his father's connection that Bruce ultimately became a child film star. His own acting ability was clear from the beginning. Bruce posed as a great natural actor and possessed a great natural ability for acting.

His father used to take him backstage. As a young boy, Bruce always hung around the set where his father was working on film.

Few people have started a major film car...

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... do, whether it was to be a fighter, an actor, a dancer, or being a friend, he always gave it his all. And in a lot of cases, his all was the best.

Reflections

I find Bruce Lee is both idolized and magnificent. He is one of the world's best martial artist that ever lived. Maybe even to some people he was, is, and will always be the greatest martial artist that ever lived. He is a great man that can be looked at by many different angles: he was a martial artist, a dancer, an actor, and a very wise person. He has taken everything bad that fate had given him and turned to be a marvelous feat, such as: racism, because he was Chinese, there was a lot of put-downs, and stuff that people said he couldn't do. Yet he was the first and the best martial art teacher there ever was, and is. He was the first to teach all different races. In one case mentioned earlier in this report, doctors said he would never walk, let alone fight, dance, or act again. Yet slowly but surely he walked, fought, danced, and acted better than he ever did.

In my own opinion, Bruce Lee is the greatest example of what a

Everything... human being should be.