While reading Make the Dirt Fly and Message to congress you could spot the contrasting opinions of the Canal Zone pretty quickly. When one is reading excerpts from Hardeveld, you hear more dislikes than anything. He described the work of the canal as being slow moving, while also complaining about the food being awful. When comparing Roosevelt, he not only pointed out the bad but the good as well. Hardeveld would often point out the slow process of being the canal without explanation, while Roosevelt would inform readers that the reasons behind the lack of progress was due to rain. Roosevelt was more involved in his everyday surroundings. He often spoke and visited with the different people that were in the canal community. He listened several
