Greg Mortenson's Three Cups Of Tea

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The Story Of Greg Mortenson On December 27 1957, Greg Mortenson was born. When he was a year old, his family moved to Africa. After a couple years of living in Africa, Greg moved back to Minnesota. At the age of five, Greg’s younger sister was diagnosed with epilepsy. As you can imagine, on September 30 1980, Greg’s dad passed away after a long battle with cancer. This was a hard time for the Mortenson family. When Greg was just 36, he started to climb K2 in Pakistan. Unfortunately he got lost on his journey. However, he found a small mountain village that helped him get home. To return the favor, he promised the town’s people he would give back to them. When he came back, he started to raise money to build schools. After a year of hard work, he gets enough …show more content…
Greg wrote this book based on his journey of fundraising, planning, and building the school in Korphe. He talks about the conflicts he faced while trying to do this, and how he was successful in the end. In Three Cups Of Tea, Greg Mortenson said, "That night, for the first time since starting my work in Pakistan, I thought about quitting. I expected something like this from an ignorant village mullah, but to get those kinds of letters from my fellow Americans made me wonder whether I should just give up." (275). This quote is about the doubt Greg had when he first began to work in Pakistan. Because of the difficulties he had to face Greg regretted his work many times. Although he wanted to quit, Greg pushed through and built the school. Three Cups of Tea was written about the process of building a school, and how just one school impacted a whole community. The village of Korphe had nothing for education before the school was built. Greg calls this the first step to stop terrorism. He is hoping that if enough people receive an education, the terrorism in the Middle East will end. Eventually, he hopes for all terrorism to
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