Summary:
Ben Carson he was that type of person that didnt care about school so much, his main focuse was going outside with his friends after school, and play his favorite games, softball, and tip the top.Ben and his friends would play these two games for hours because, they fun to them, but once they had become tired they had gone home. Ben had grew up in Boston, MA, but later moved to Detriot because his father had left the family, and had started a new life. Ben had allows though has dad would come back but it never, but now the mother Sonya Carson is the leader of the house hold. She works very hard each day, and tells her children that they are smart, but they dont believe her because the student's in their consider them to be the dumbest kids in the class. One day after work Sonya had asked GOB to help her find a way to help her two sons, obtain good grades in school, and once she had gotten home, she knew what she had to do. She had shut off the tv, that the boys had been watching, and told them they have been wasting their time, in stead they could be study for test, and reviewing their homework. She had said that for now on once they have gotten home they would have to start their homework immediatley, and gotten watch any tv, until all of their homework had been completed. They were only aloud to watch two preselected tv programs a week. They were required by there mother to get 2 books from the library each week, and write a report for her, and hand it in by the end of the week. By doing all this extra work for his mother ben, have gained more knowledge, and felt better about himself. He had started to answer some questions the teachers had asked during class time, and by the middle of the sixth grade school year, benjamin had become the smartest of his class. From there on ben had been the smartest, and had also be obnxious, but once he had enrolled in yale, he had felt like he was in 5th grade, all over again. It took him time to relieve that he wasnt the smartest anymore, and he had to study harder then a had ever had to do before.
Quote:
" Maybe thats's not the way I should be. What if I try to be confident in what iam doign and not make it so obvious that I have to be the best ? "
Reaction:
The quote was very interesting to me, because in the book when benjamin was very obnxious, but he relieved, if he keeps it inside of him that he is the smartest, and doesnt let anybody know that, everybody will like him for who he is. It is interest how much knowledge Ben had gain from going to the library everyday to read books.
