Blog Post #10

While working I came across the children's book called Listen to the Wind. It turned out to be by Mortenson written in the village's point of view about the things he did for their village and the school. The book stayed true to what is in Three Cups of Tea.

While reading the section about how Mortenson and the truck driver, Muhhamad drove across the dangerous mountain on the way to Skardu I thought of the Passage in The Motorcycle Diaries in Whch Ernesto and Alberto were going through Chicuicamata, the Chilean mining town. "With the regularity of mile markers, white shahid, or "martyr" monuments honoredthe death of Frontier Works Organization roadbuilders who had perished in their battles with these rock walls." (Relin 81) This quote and experience was very similar to Guevara's experience,"... As they wait for the soulless arms of the mechanic shovels to devour their insides, spiced as they would be with the inevitable human lives -- the lives of the poor, unsung heroes of battle, who die miserably in one o the thousands of traps set by nature to defend its treasures, when all they want is to earn their daily bread."