Korphe and he wants to build a school there. Besides, he builds the school in order to return the kindness of Korphe to save his life. Then, his concern about
education in Korphe leads him to build another school in Northern Pakistan area. Having an intrinsic motivation, Greg Mortenson is helpful to everyone without
asking any rewards in return because he is doing such things from his heart.
2. Greg Mortenson’s Approach Motivation
Higgins in Franken’s Human Motivation 3 states that in approach behavior, people do things because of something they want, desire, or need. The
things are often conceptualized in terms of specific goals. Building schools in Northern Pakistan is one of Greg Mortenson’s goals in his life. Based on his goals,
Greg Mortenson works hard in raising fund in order to build the schools in Northern Pakistan. At the beginning, he finds the way to raise fund by writing
letters and sending it to all the richest people in America. The typewriter was too small for Mortenson’s hands. He kept hitting two
keys at once, tearing out the letter, and starting over, which added to the cost a dollar an hour to rent the old IBM Selectric seemed reasonable, but
after five hours at downtown Berkeley’s Khrisna Copy Center, he’d only finished four letters 47.
Greg keeps typing the letters to ask people to donate their money to support his mission in building schools. He has a target to send 500 hundred letters; he sends
it to every U.S senator, Oprah Winfrey, public library, pop culture magazines, and entertainers. Greg says, “It wasn’t much to show for a full day’s work, but at least
he started somewhere. He’d get faster, and told himself. He would have to, since
he’d set himself a firm goal of five hundred letters” 48. However, after waiting six months, he only gets one response.
In addition to sending the letters, Greg also tries hard to find another way in raising fund. He arranges to have presentation about his mission in building
school in Northern Pakistan. The presentation takes place in Mr. Sports, Apple Alley, and Minnesota. Greg publishes his presentation by putting posters on local
campuses, asking for publicity on local papers and being interviewed in a local radio to invite all the people to come to his presentation. In his presentation,
“Mortenson spoke passionately for thirty minutes more, detailing the crushing poverty children in the Karakoram faced everyday, and unveiling his plans to
begin constructing schools the following spring at the very edge of the Northern Pakistan, along Afghanistan border” 227.
Greg Mortenson spends more time in order to achieve his goals. Greg Mortenson is passionate in working all day to think about the way to raise fund to
build another school. He often stays up late and forgets to take an exercise and he has no time to spend with his family 233. Greg Mortenson will use all of his
ability and his time to think what he has to do in order to achieve his goals. He wants to make everything work as well as he plans. Considering that he cannot
build the school by himself, Greg hires an experienced crew from Skardu to supervise the construction. Mortenson hires Ghulam parvi as his accountant; he
also hires a calm and experienced person named Hussain. The other Greg’s crews are Faisal Baig, Abdul Shah and Makhmal. They are Greg’s assistance in building
school in Northern Pakistan.
With the money that Greg has, he plans to buy the materials to build the school. Abdul, one of his crews accompanies him in bargaining all materials he
needs. In the late afternoon of the second full day of haggling, Mortenson,
swollen with tea, sloshed the Khyaban with Abdul on the back of a cart pulled by a small horse that looked even more exhausted than they felt. His
shalwar pocket was crammed with receipts for hammers, saws, nails,
sheets of corrugated tin roofing, and lumber worthy of supporting schoolchildren. All the materials would be delivered beginning at dawn the
next day to the truck they’d hired for three day trip up the Karakoram Highway 67.
After arriving in Korphe, Greg brings all the materials to build the school. He says optimistically to Haji Ali that he can build the school in Korphe.
“I bought everything we need to build school,” he said in Balti, as he’d been rehearsing. “All the wood, and cement and tools. It’s all in Skardu
right now.” He loofed at Changazi, who dipped a coofie in his tea, and flush with the moment, he felt affection even for him. “I came back to
keep my promise,” Mortenso said, loofing Haji Ali in the eye. “And I hope we can begin building it soon, Inshallah” 97.
Greg and his crew keep continuing their work to improve Balti children. They work in all spring and summer to make the mission accomplished.
Mortenson whirled around Baltistan like a dervish in a green Land Cruiser. He and his crew delivered bags of cement when the various construction
sites fell short, drove Makhmal up the Braldu to adjust a set of ill-fitting of roof beams at Pakhora, and buzzed over to the woodshop in Skardu to
check on the progress of five hundred students’ desks he was having constructed 192.
In building school in Northern Pakistan, Greg faces some problems which do not support his mission. However, Greg is brave to stand against people who disagree
with him. There is a religious leader in Northern Pakistan who is against him, named sher Chakpo. He makes a new fatwa which is against Greg’s mission in
building school in Northern Pakistan. Sher Chakpo also wants to banish Greg
from Pakistan because he worries that Greg’s mission is against Islam. Based on that situation, Greg convinces sher Chakpo and Syed Abbas that Greg will leave
Pakistan if his mission against Islam 193. His bravery shows that Greg really wants to build school in Northern Pakistan.
In conclusion, Greg has an approach motivation in building school in Northern Pakistan. Since building school there become one of his goals in his life,
Greg acts something which leads him to accomplish his goal. Firstly, Greg raises fund to support him in building the schools. After collecting the money, he starts
gathering workers who are experienced and eager to build the school. In building the schools, Greg and his crew buy materials and distribute it to the place where
the school will be built. He is also optimistic that he can finish the schools building with the materials he brings. Besides, he is brave in facing people who is
against him in building schools in Northern Pakistan.
3. Greg Mortenson’s Achievement Motivation
