Please I give brainslit Oprah Winfrey said this about the book: "when you hear this story, it's going to turn the way you think about free will and fate upside down." So, which is it...freedom of choice or a higher power? If you believe that it is a higher power, what kind —God, cosmic fate, environment, biology, psychology? Or if freedom of choice, to what degree are we free to choose and create our own destiny?

Read this excerpt from we’ve got a job: the 1963 children’s march. then, in 1958, when he was nine, his mother got a job as a dental assistant – and a raise. at about the same time, wash got a job, too. six days a week for eight years, he woke up by four o'clock in the morning to deliver milk. by the time he got to school each day, he'd already put in almost half a day's work. how does this excerpt readers make a personal connection to the story? by connecting readers to his mother’s medical training by connecting readers to the milk-delivery business by connecting readers to wash’s academic success by connecting readers to wash’s daily work routine