We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy’s Courage and a Mother’s Love
Posted by admin | Posted in Aid | Posted on 24-08-2010
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- ISBN13: 9780143035992
- Condition: New
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Product Description
Award-winning correspondent for ABC World News and Nightline Jim Wooten is a seasoned newsman who has covered tragedy the world over. Now he tells the story of Nkosi Johnson, an eleven-year-old South African boy born with AIDS into poverty in a shantytown and given only a few years to live. But his ailing mother managed to cross her country’s divisions of race and class to bring him to Gail Johnson, who would raise him for her. Before his own death at the age of twelve, Nkosi had become, in Nelson Mandela’s words, “an icon of the struggle for life” for millions in Africa and around the world. And he had changed Wooten’s life in ways Wooten is still discovering. We Are All the Same is a work of Biblical simplicity and power that reveals the astonishing resilience of the human spirit.
We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy’s Courage and a Mother’s Love
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Too bad Jim Wooten couldn’t get himself out of the story even tho he promised at the beginning to insert himself only where necessary. I felt like I was listening to a documentary vs. reading a memoir. He completely missed the emotional tone of the thing and instead, got lost for three pages on who the father was. He should stick to Tv or whatever he did before that made him famous.
Rating: 2 / 5
Very disappointed! At first I was very excited about the book. The topic was interesting, introduction is stunning, the story compelling. I was looking for some good material to expand my horizons about people infected with AIDS. But very soon my excitement diminished. I went through about half of the book, but then quit in frustration. Author takes an important issue of our day, topic that in my opinion does not have the attention it deserves (I’m referring to the problem of AIDS), but then adds a liberal spin to the subject, and promotes homosexuality, abortion, and other liberal propaganda, in the name of the fight against AIDS and love for the people that suffer from the virus. He sympathizes with homosexual people that carry the disease, and that’s very noble – everyone deserves to be loved and cared for – but what annoys me very much, is the fact that the author promotes unhealthy and immoral lifestyle (I’m taking about both homosexuals and heterosexuals here..) that led great many people in to this problem in the first place…
Rating: 2 / 5
Every child must know Nkosi’s story and his courage to face his fate.
Rating: 5 / 5
Hello. I am a freshman foreign student in high school. In my ESL class, I read the book, We Are All The Same by Jim Wooten. At the first time, it was sort of like a history book. However, I became love to read this book because it well describes mother’s love and boy’s courage. There is a southern African boy with AIDS, Nkosi and Gail Johnson who tries to help Nkosi with her love. Gail Johnson adopted Nkosi and fought for his illness. When Gail Johnson took care of Nkosi and gave everything for him, we can realize our insufficiency of love and acceptance. I could feel how much I am taking everything for granted. If you read this book, you can feel sadness, kindness, acceptances, deficiencies and love. This book would be the precious story to the people who want to perceive important treasures in their life.
Rating: 3 / 5
Excellent book. I read it because I am going to South Africa, but this book is a good read for everyone. It is informative and compassionate with just the right amount of information to get a clear picture of the characters and how AIDS has impacted this country.
Rating: 5 / 5