Blog Post 2, Week 2, Lawrence in Arabia

I choose to look at the second chapter in Lawrence In Arabia. in this chapter we learn stuff about his childhood and the way in which he was raised so we get a sense of how he came to be the man that people knew him as. Coming from a middle class British family, he attended an all boys school, and he liked to ride bikes. The story of how he got the name Lawrence is very interesting. His fathers last name was Thompson but after having an affair he was forced to live under a new name. Following this he lived in 6 different places by the age of 8 their family had finally decided to stay in one spot and that was Oxford. It’s interesting learning the backstory to peoples lives when reading about them because then you can analyze and start to connect dots on why people actually did the things they did.