Which two sentences from the passage best reveal the author's point of view about Ulysses Grant?
He had a special talent for mathematics, and he became an expert horseman, but with these exceptions, he took little interest in the training he received at this famous military school.
At last, his father offered him a place in his leather and hardware store, where Grant worked as a clerk until the outbreak of the Civil War.
Soon he gave striking evidence of that fearless bravery for which he was to become so noted on the battlefields of the Civil War.
From the age of eleven to seventeen, according to his personal memories, he ploughed the soil, nurtured the growing corn and potatoes, and sawed firewood for his father's store.
He had his fun times too, including fishing, swimming in the creek near his home, skating in winter, and driving about the countryside in the winter and summer.