Gifted Hands - #1

comments:
1. I think Ben is brave and strong when he had to take all those horrible teasing and comments from other students and never onced did he cry.
2. I think without this mother's courage, Ben wouldn't be able to survive school and become successful.
3. It's a good thing that Ben and his brother listens to his mother, all the work they did that they were told to really paid off for school.
4. I'm impressed how his mother still can be very willing and supportive to her children even when she's going through a lot and having to go to away sometimes, because of her depression.
5. I was surprised how ben reached to the top of the smartest kids in the school when he use to be way at the bottom.

Questions:
1. Did his mother kicked his father out, because he did drugs or he cheated on her?
2. His father seem to love him a lot, but how come he won't give any child support money?
3. Where did his father go after he was kicked out?
4. Did Ben had any friends at the school he went to before he started to get better grades?

Vocabularies:
1. tedious: tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; boring
2. vocation: a particular occupation, business, or profession; calling
3. milestone: a significant event or stage in the life, progress, development, or the like of a person, nation, etc.

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Overview Sentence:
-This is about how Ben's father left and his mother is encouraging and supporting him to do better in school.