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For this last reading reflection, I chose the book titles “the Wright Brothers” by David McCullough.

1.     What surprised me the most is how the brothers started out, although they had had the bike shop, they had a printing shop and published newspapers first. I guess if you would have saw them before they started with their bike shop, you would never think that they could go and invent such a useful mechanical object. Another thing that surprised me is that they couldn’t sell the airplane to the U.S. and had to sell it to France first to get publicity on their invention.

I most admire Wilbur and for the fact that he didn’t let the accident that he had let that be the end of him, he did give up on some of his dreams at that point, but he still carried on with his life and began to study birds which would eventually lead to inventing the airplane.

I didn’t really have anything I didn’t admire about the two brothers both worked extremely hard for what they believed in. I think the only thing that I found weird was Orville was more in charge than Wilbur even though Wilbur was older.

They endured many failures and kept improving by studying birds, etc. They kept persevering on no matter how many times they failed, eventually they accomplished their goals.

2.     I think they both showed that they had a strong need for success throughout the book. Even though they weren’t highly educated they still made their lives very bright and Lucrative.

3.     I don’t believe anything was confusing about the book. I think it wasn’t as good as other bio/autobio’s I have read because it didn’t include a lot about them and detailed the airplane and how they did it more than personal attributes.

4.     First, I would ask why did you build the airplane on a bicycle rather than something with 4 wheels and a suspension. Then, I would ask how much in total did they think they spent on the whole venture.

5.     I think the Wright brother’s opinion of hard work was to never give up and give it 110% every time. I also share that opinion somewhat, I believe that you should never give up, but I also believe in “work smarter not harder” so if I could put in 60% of my effort and still get the job done correctly I would much rather do that.