Summary Of Three Cups Of Tea By Greg Mortenson

What defines a liar? A person who tells lies repeatedly. Greg Mortenson is a liar. In Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson promotes the need for education, especially for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but his fabricated stories, misuse of money, and continuous lies overshadow his positive efforts. Greg Mortenson is believed to be using his book to promote the need for education, especially for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan. “Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they’ve learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.” (Mortenson) Mortenson believes that girls have the power to change the world. By building schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan, he changes the path many young girls will take, due to their improved …show more content…
In Three Cups of Tea, he writes that he took a wrong turn while descending from K2 and wounded up in a small village named Korphe and the village chief, Haji Ali, had nursed him back to health. When he learned that Korphe students were using sticks and dirt to copy their multiplications table, he had enough and said to Haji Alit, “I will build a school. I promise.” (Mortenson 33) What really happened was that Mortenson had descended K2 with his three other companions: Scott Darsney, Mouzafer, and Yakub. Later, Darsney and Mortenson hired a jeep to take them to Khane, a village where their expedition cook, Akhmalu, was from. While visiting Khane, Mortenson finds out that they do not have a school. He then promises to come back the following year and build one. These fabricated stories allowed Mortenson’s book, Three Cups of Tea, to become even more popular throughout the