Three Cups Of Tea Analysis

Three Cups of Tea is based on a true story of Greg Mortenson’s life and journey of helping the village of Korphe, continuing on to help more villages, and helping more lives. Greg was climbing K2, the world’s second largest mountain, in order to reach his goal of putting his deseeded sister’s necklace on the peak. He fails to reach the summit and gets lost along the way. He trails off course and runs into many villages including Korphe, where he realizes he can give his sister a remembrance with helping people and building this school for the children of Korphe. Mortenson has troubles along the way such as, lack of money, world problems that he had no control over, and heath of others and himself. He continued to finish schools and start programs to help more villages with schools, but also wars going on around them. He is accused of being a traitor and has those problems as well. His work never stopped …show more content…
Like I said in my other paragraphs I learned how the effects that America goes through, but also how these problems effect the whole world. I know the basic history of Osama Bin Landin and the problems in Afghanistan, but here I learned that this is where a lot of the racism came to be in America many hated Mortenson for wanting to help the Muslims people. The book is historically accurate because it is a biography of his life. The time periods are accurate as well. The problems that are explained in the story such as 9/11 and the fleeing of Muslims have the correct description. The type of poverty that he describes and the post war and 9/11 effect he shows how the world is effected in all of those ways. The history that I learned was he endured many problems trying to help that I thought had no effect on small places like this and small problems such as being hated for trying to