who are the characters for think big by ben carson

Midway through his talk, he issued a whimsical-and bipartisan-call to action.

“That’s schizophrenia!” But he also delivered a black-history lesson, enumerating a long list of African-American inventors who were, he said, absent from school textbooks, thereby depriving young black men of role models. “If it’s in our Constitution, it’s in our Pledge, it’s in our courts, and it’s on our money, but we’re not supposed to talk about it, what is that?” he asked. He lamented the secularization of American society, asserting that religious faith was no longer acceptable in political discourse. The anecdotes he dispensed had been polished smooth over the decades, and they helped him administer a carefully calibrated dose of political and spiritual incitement. “I don’t feel that I really belong here,” Carson said, when he took the lectern, but his casual posture and gentle smile suggested that he knew he did. And he has a knack, common to great motivators, for making his accomplishments seem both extraordinary and achievable. He grew up poor and black in Detroit, the son of a single mother who, he likes to remind audiences, could barely read. Ten years before, he had separated twins who were joined at the head, and he used the attention that followed to establish himself as a writer and inspirational figure. In 1997, the speaker was Benjamin Solomon Carson, who was both an accomplished pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins University and, unlike most pediatric neurosurgeons, something of a celebrity. The keynote speaker at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, in Washington, D.C., is expected to be an agile performer: a preacher, but a nondenominational one an orator, but a nonpartisan one.

Who are the characters for think big by ben carson