Everyone dreams they can be anything they want to when they grow up. Hard work, determination and having the right values can lead you to that amazing dream. When having a dreams you need to set realistic goals. Children today have dreams to play in the NFL and NBA, what they don’t understand is that those dreams can get demolished within seconds if they ever got hurt. In many of Horatio Alger’s work he sets up false hope. The story Ragged Dick, is based upon a guy who seems to be in the right place at the right time; and gets rewarded for that. Then there is a story by Harlon L. Dalton, giving the opposite side of Ragged Dick. The stories both have excellent points to them but when you look at it from race and class, it never really works out like that. When race and class are involved people seem to look at things very different. In Ragged Dick, Alger states that “Dick
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Dalton he states that “Ragged Dick is socially destructive” (260). Everybody is just not that lucky, he claims it’s a myth. It covers three basic messages: we are judge solely on our merits, everyone has an opportunity to find those merits, and fulfil that merit. He believes in the golden rule; if you do for others, then you shall be rewarded. It’s not always like that, especially when you face the social class and race controversy. Dalton states, “black fold know what’s like to be disfavored, scrutinized, and ignored” (261). Colored people such as blacks don’t usually get the recognitions like they should. If you examine the world today as black person, if you do well then you get a pat on the back. What most people don’t understand is that they work just as hard as anyone else does. They deserve the opportunities that white people have. They don’t usually get treated with the same respect, if Dick was a black man saving that little boy’s life the guy wouldn’t have gotten a job, the most he would have been told good job and a pat on the
Dalton he states that “Ragged Dick is socially destructive” (260). Everybody is just not that lucky, he claims it’s a myth. It covers three basic messages: we are judge solely on our merits, everyone has an opportunity to find those merits, and fulfil that merit. He believes in the golden rule; if you do for others, then you shall be rewarded. It’s not always like that, especially when you face the social class and race controversy. Dalton states, “black fold know what’s like to be disfavored, scrutinized, and ignored” (261). Colored people such as blacks don’t usually get the recognitions like they should. If you examine the world today as black person, if you do well then you get a pat on the back. What most people don’t understand is that they work just as hard as anyone else does. They deserve the opportunities that white people have. They don’t usually get treated with the same respect, if Dick was a black man saving that little boy’s life the guy wouldn’t have gotten a job, the most he would have been told good job and a pat on the