Gifted Hands Book Report

Gifted Hands: a Benson Carson Story By: Julia Murtha

While reading this enchanting book, I have realized that I should not let the little things in my life be taken for granted. Ben Carson had a rough child hood, but he was a good kid. As a child he wasn’t the brightest or the richest, but he was a well mannered child. He was teased a lot during his elementary school years, just because he was not the brightest student in his class. He was tired of the constant bullying of his fellow students so, he began to read books. He just kept reading and reading, and the things he read just stuck to him. He became the brightest student in middle school, from the dumbest in elementary. During high school he wasn’t teased for his smarts, yet for his appearance and clothing he wore. He begged his mother over and over again for an Italian shirt. She wished she could get it for him but she wasn’t making enough income.
Carson, having anger problems was furious and raised his hand to his mother; however, his brother was there to stop him before anything could happen. Carson still didn’t believe he had anger problems until he almost stabbed his best friend. He was at his best friend’s house just watching TV and his friend changed the channel, Ben Carson changed it back, and his friend once again changed it; Carson’s rage built up and he took out his switch blade and attempted to stab him. The only flaw to that plan was that this knife hit his friends belt and the blade broke. Suddenly Carson knew what had just happened and said sorry and ran home. That night, he locked himself in the bathroom and sat there and cried and prayed for over four hours. After that traumatizing thing happened to him, he started studding even more. His newly found genius led him to a scholar ship to Yale and to Harvard. He chose which one he wanted to attend from an academic debate on television, which the two schools competed in. Yale won,