In Mike Tyson's book "Undisputed Truth"Tyson speaks about his incredibly tough upbringing. I think there is one main lesson that comes out of this book and that is that even the toughest still have a heart. I think that is the overall main lesson of the book and even though I am not finished, you can tell that all he wanted was to be loved and he would do whatever it took to receive love.
Mike Tyson grew up in Brownsville, and with no real father and a drug addict mother. He committed 38 felonies before he was 13 and he was just involved with gangs and fighting and with all kinds of bad influences around him. In the prologue, he mentions that he was in such a search for love that when he was famous, he would give so much money to charities and people around him thinking that they could love him. Not the image of Mike Tyson you think about when you hear his name. When you hear his name it's one of the strongest, craziest boxers and people to ever live. But this man didn't know what love was and had never experienced it. It seems ironic that a man who punches another until they fall unconscious was in search of love, but that was the only way he could find love. By winning fights, by winning money, and then using money as a way for people to love him.
In conclusion, I think that this book on Tyson not only reveals his inner, more gentle-hearted self, but also shows how even the toughest and baddest of all people, still have a heart. And that heart may be the only thing they've been looking for, and will do anything to find it.
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