A Path Appears By Wudunn: Analysis

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In the book “A Path Appears” by the winning journalist Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn wrote about making chances to create opportunity to change for better. It was published in September 23, 2014. The first thing I did before I read the book, I looked the summary from the back and the author’s background to better understanding. The introduction of Path Appears, grabbed me attention because there has little short stories about people who made it change and impact on themselves or for the community. The way I annotate for the novel, I used the sticky notecards to mark the main points or supporting points. Also, I wrote the short summary of the stories in the end of the chapter. Right now, I have read up to Chapter 4, the authors keep continuing …show more content…
If parent want their children to have a better life, both parents need to take action to influence them in their early days. For example, the story about Professor David Olds who invented the program of Nurse - Family Partnership, for children to have a better future life by training them at their beginning of their childhood. The author stated that "If we miss that opportunity at the front end, it can be far more difficult and costly to try to undo the damage later"(66). According to the authors, Kristof and WuDunn was trying to say, the opportunity for the kids is based on their parent how they interact with them in their early childhood. This story talks about parents can make a difference to their child life and higher education in their future. The founder of this program, Olds believes that parents who wait for their children until the age of four to send to preschool are wrong because there is no difference in their lives. For example, the author restate what David Olds said “Olds was blunt: I don’t think this program makes a difference, and we won’t know with available data. But I think we can design an intervention that will make a difference and that can be evaluated so we’ll know whether it works” (62). In this quote, Olds claims that his invention of sending …show more content…
She believed that water is one of the essential commodity in human life and people world wide lacking clean water. After her ninth birthday, unfortunately she confronted to the bad situation in car accident with her family. Her aim was to raise three hundred dollars to help the charity: water. However, people started to donated money through the charity: water website which raised up to ten thousand dollar in the end. In the Marie Forleo’s interview with Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, WuDunn claims “That hope is like a path in the country: At first there is nothing and then because people walk this walk this way again and again, a path appears”. Based on this quote, WuDunn stated that first there was no fund for the charity: water which means there was nothing unless Rachel aimed to raise 300 dollars for her birthday. Even though she couldn’t raise 300 dollars on her birthday, afterward people started to take that path to donate money. In the end, Rachel can raised up to ten thousand dollar. Thus, I concluded by annotating that Rachel made a difference in improving health and created the opportunity to feel a hope in her

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