real danger over there is on the road” 81. Greg Mortenson decides to help people in Northern Pakistan in any condition. Therefore, he will be brave in realizing his
mission even though many problems are against him.
5. Hard Working
Since having his mission, Greg Mortenson realizes that he needs a lot of money to support him to build schools in Northern Pakistan. He does everything
to collect the money he needs. At first, he has an idea to write letter and to send it to all 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 Mortenson keeps typing the letter in order to ask people to donate their money. In his letter, he explains that he plans to build a five-room school to
educate 100 students up to the fifth grade and he needs 12,000. Greg Mortenson says, “It wasn’t much to show for a full day’s work, but at least he started
somewhere. He’d get faster, he told himself. He would have to, since he’d set himself a firm goal of five hundreds letter” 48.
From his thought, we know that Greg Mortenson is working hard to ask for help. His target is to send 500 hundred letters. While he is working in UCSF
Medical Center, he takes time to complete and to send the letters. He writes to every U.S. senator, Oprah Winfrey, public library, pop culture magazines and
entertainers. After six months, he has sent 580 letters but he only gets one response.
His hard working also can be analyzed through his speech Murphy 164. He arranges how to build a school in Korphe: the materials, the construction and
other things related to the school building. Mortenson says, “I tried to be a tough but fair taskmaster,” Mortenson says. “I spent all day
at the construction site, from sunrise to sunset, using my level to make sure the walls were even and my plumb line to check that they were standing
straight” 149.
Greg Mortenson shows his hard working by spending all night thinking about how to personage and to construct the school building. It is known that he is working
hard through his speech. It takes more than three years to accomplish his mission to build school in
Korphe. In three years, he has faced the failures and he delays to come to Korphe to complete his promise. However, he gets the money and finally he makes his
mission into reality. He makes a staff and army volunteers to help him improving Balti children 191.
Greg Mortenson keeps continuing his works in all spring and summer time. He is doing all of things he can do to accomplish his mission.
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.
Finally, through his effort and hard work, Greg Mortenson accomplishes constructing the school building. In accomplishing his mission, he is not alone
because he is helped by his crew. Besides, Greg Mortenson has a plan to build a school in different area. He
begins collecting money to build another school, therefore he returns to America. He arranges to have presentation about his mission to help the Northern Pakistan
civilian in Mr. Sports, Apple Alley, and Minnesota. He has already put posters on local college campuses, he also asks help for publicity with the editors of local
papers, and he does an interview in a local radio to invite all people to come to his presentation 226. Only half of room is filled with the audiences who come to his
presentation, yet Greg Mortenson gives his speech to them. Mortenson spofe 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’s border 227. From the statement above, Greg Mortenson shows to the reader how he finds the
money to accomplish his mission. After his great efforts are known by Jean Hoerni, he establishes CAI
Central Asia Institute to continue Greg Mortenson’s work building schools in the mountaineous region of Pakistan. He chooses Greg Mortenson as the director of
CAI. Therefore, Greg has a big responsibility to maintain the CAI. He works a lot in developing CAI, he spends all of his time and his energy to do the projects of
CAI. Greg Mortenson’s hard working can be seen by another Murphy 162. Voughan, Greg Mortenson’s friend says,
“Let’s be honest,” says Tom Vaughan. “The fact is the CAI is Greg. I didn’t mind rubber-stamping whatever he wanted to work on. But without
Greg, the CAI is finished. The risks he takes in that part of the world I understand --- that’s part of the job. But I began to get angry about the
terrible way he toof care of himself. He stopped climbing and exercising. He stopped sleeping. He began to gain so much weight that he didn’t even
loof like a mountaineer anymore. I understand that he decided to pour everything into his work,” 230.
Greg Mortenson’s friend, Vaughan, is worried about Greg’s health. Sometimes Greg forgets to take care himself because he is too busy in doing CAI job as the
director. Besides, His jobs take much of his time that unable him to have enough
time with his family. Tara, his wife, says, I told Greg I love how passionate he is about his work,” Tara says. “But I
told him he had a duty to his family, too. He needed to get more sleep, get some exercise, and get enough time at home to have a life with us.” Until
then, Mortenson had left home to be in Pakistan for three months or four months a time 233.
From what she said, it can be observed that she is complaining about Greg who is too busy with his job. He works very hard to accomplish his job and it makes him
forget that his family also needs him.
6. Optimistic
