Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Think Big 2.

5 Comments:

1. Ben Carson admits that Gifted Hands is not about him, it is also about his mother Sonya Carson's influence.
2. Sonya Carson only married at the age of thirteen.
3. His mother was a foster child who had to move from house to house and this made Sonya really wants to take care of her own children because she grew up without parents.
4. Sonya was kind of lost into taking care of everything in the house that she is not really taking her of herself enough.
5. Sonya's husband treated her as if she was a china doll.

4 Questions:

1. Wasn't it only back in Shakespeare's time that people like Romeo and Juliet would get married at the age of 13?
2. What happened to Sonya's real parents, like why was she put up for adoption?
3. Did Sonya get to go to school when she had to move from one foster parent to another?
4. Was Robert Carson's illegal whisky that made Sonya and him divorce?

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1 Overview:

This part of the book is about Ben Carson's mother, Sonya Carson and how she grew up and what made her keep on trying to influence Ben to do better in life.

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