Jacob shows some of his bargaining skills and the knowledge he has in book 5, specifically page 231-255. He is able to take a few shirts he has and he finds a village and trades them for five cones of tobacco. He does not only use his shirts but he offers to teach the kids of the village 24 of the most important things by nightfall. He does this successfully and continues on his journey. He meets up with a Turkana group where he was going to trade the five cones of tobacco for five goats. Once again he also promised to teach one kid one thousand and one of the most important things by the next morning. As he said he did and he got 5 goats. Jacob then went to a town and sold his goats for 3700 shillings. I found it amazing how Jacob was able to accumulate over 4000 shillings in just a couple days. To put this into perspective for today’s day, he went a bought a meal for half a shilling. If you were to buy a meal in today day it would be like 10$. So based on that each shilling is worth 20$ and he would had over $80000 in Canadian dollars. I wish I was able to take 5 shirts and make $80000 dollars. I mean who wouldn’t want to be able to do that.
In my opinion Jacob made a bad decision on pages 259-263. Jacob had just met the Headmaster at Laiser Hill Academy. He knew barely anything about him and he was just told that he couldn’t come to school. Jacob didn’t know this was true, for all he knew he could of been lied to because the school is also full. The bad decision that Jacob made was giving the headmaster most of his chillings. Jacob barely knew the man. Would you have gave a man you just met all your money trusting that he wouldn’t spend any of it or give it away? I definitely would not of trusted a man I only knew for 10 minutes. I wouldn’t trust many people I know too give them all my money.
~BW
~BW
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