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The Power Of Half
The family consists of 4
people and those four people are the dad whose name is rarely
mentioned in the book. The mom whose name is Joan and the second
biggest supporter in the family for the charity work. Next up is
Joseph who was less then eager to give up his stuff to help out
strangers that he didn't really know much about at all. Finally there
is Hannah who was the person who came up with the idea to help out
the homeless. The book is told from the perspective of the dad and as
he watches his family come back together.
The family has dedicated
their life to help other people less fortunate then themselves. They
started out helping out in small ways as for example their daughter
worked at a soup kitchen to help the homeless and when the family
spotted someone on the street they might give him a gift card to
Mcdonalds. They lived in a large house that the family had worked
hard to provide the money to keep as well as their other luxuries
including their car and their many hobbies. The daughter of the
family or Hannah who worked at the soup kitchen decided that they
weren't doing enough to help the less fortunate at the time and
managed to convince the family that they could give up half of the
many things that they had to help. This one small act started the
chain reaction to the future.
The family did some research
and decided to work with an organization called the Hunger Project.
In order to help out the people they got a house that was half the
size of their current house and then decided to sell the large one
for funds for the family project. Sadly since they bought the new
house before they sold the original they ended up in some troubles
while trying to help their charity of choice as they then had to pay
for both the houses at the same time. By the end of the book you
still don't know if they sold the house.
The family despite the
troubles with the house they ended up going over to Africa to help
out the many residents of the villages scattered around Africa.. With
the organization they all ended up going to the different villages to
see which one could be helped the most. They did not find any one
specific village to help in general but they did end up helping a
village who working on setting up a 6 room school in a small village
that was far away from any main city. This may not sound like much
but when compared to the other places around this village you would
realize that no other village with similar circumstances could boast
such a large school for their children.
The book ends with them
making plans for the future and what their next plans would be to
help people. The family ends up using their savings to pay for the
donations that they would need to put into the Hunger Project. The
savings includes retirement funds and college funds. This was decided
after a meeting with the family of what they were going to do to help
donate to the Hunger Project. The parents did not exclude the kids
from the meeting as they were just as much of a cause for the
family's situation as the parents decided to support them. This shows
their devotion the path that they set themselves on and that they
approve of what they are doing no matter what other people think.
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Now that you know what the book was like now it is a great time to talk about how I would feel if my family pulled a stunt like this. First off is who would propose this in the first place as I can see Kristi or dad saying something like this but for dad I would have to check if he were joking. The reason for this is because dad has a habit of being able to tell a joke so seriously that you don't even know if it was a joke or if it was what was going on the world as you speak. If we did decide to give up half of what we could spare then I am guessing that most of our time would not be spent in places in the USA only because the United States is already pretty well off in comparison to the other places in the world. Being honest I don't know exactly where we would end up working at for the longest time as I do expect us to work all over the world if we were to do anything along these lines. In fact it would be my first time leaving North America in general and that would be somewhat fun to me except that maybe I would need to trade in my desktop for a laptop.
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