To me this theme of failure and the above passage remind me of some of the failures I have experienced or seen during my life. I can relate to this because when I was a freshmen in high school I tried out for the basketball team and didn’t make it. This was rough on me, but over the next year after that all I did was practice and get better. The next season I made the team. That was a great feeling, like I’m sure Mortenson’s was. Everybody has failures in their lives. Some people’s failures might be worse than others, but those might also turn out better than others to. I believe to succeed you have to first face some type of failure to motivate yourself even more. It’s like how after Mortenson failed to climb K2 he saw the problems and Korphe and decided to help the children out. His failure turned into the success of many others. Overall, the main theme I have taken from this story is failure, but in a sense of benefitting from failure. All of these examples mentioned above relate to the theme of failure in the Mortenson’s book, Three Cups of Tea. Failure was the title of the first chapter as the beginning of the process of change and success. It is a theme in everybody’s life, and one that everybody should be able to build upon and turn into something even better than you could’ve imagined. If Greg Mortenson had reached the summit of K2 we might not have ever seen fifty new schools built for all those children, and we wouldn’t be talking about it right now. Failure led to the success of Greg Mortenson, but more importantly helped out children in need of education for a better future and hopefully a change. Failure is a big part of people’s lives, and how they accept failure and move on from it is a big part of their life. In the first chapter of Three Cups of Tea, the quote at the beginning of the chapter is, “when it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” This is a quote from the Persian Proverb. To me this quote is a good description of failure. I think...