There comes a time at a young age, where everyone has done mistakes and some learn from it and some don’t. In the short story The Parsley Garden, by William Saroyan suggests that working hard for what you want gives you more respect rather than stealing. He shows this by chronicling the life of Al Condraj, demonstrating that him and his mom were impecunious living in fresno but Al Condraj decides to make up his mistakes and works hard for his hammer he wanted. Which he mentioned it wasn't something he needed that was important because his mom was giving him money to get the hammer instead of stealing. Al Condraj inspired himself to work for little things that are not important and not to steal and to also not get everything handed out easily.
These two stories are about the story of Rapunzel. They are both from different places and have some of their culture. One article is “ Blond Beauty “ and it is from France. The other story is “ Parsley [Petrosinella] “ and it is from Italy. “ Blond Beauty “ is more like the Rapunzel I know, it has a godmother type of person that calls for Rapunzel to let her hair down. The story “ Parsley [Petrosinella] “ is different from that it has orges and a garden, but there are things that are very alike about both of these stories as well.
While reading “A Rupee Earned”, by If Bulatkin, the narrator makes it evident that not everything in life comes effortlessly, and that sometimes you need to put in the work to gain the results you want. Too often in life we attempt to find shortcuts to resolve our problems, but it doesn’t always work out because we cannot cheat our way through life.
To read a story that deals with this theme makes us realize that it is not everyone that can accomplish what they really want in their
I think this learning matters because it shows that when you become greedy, (most of the time) nothing good can happen to you and you end up in a bad place. It also matters because it shows if you become too imaginative combined with a little greed, you can go crazy. I think this a lesson to be learned for others so it doesn't happen to
As in this story Al wanted to build a bench but did not have the tools for them , so he then decided to go to the store and steal a hammer. Eventually he had got caught. After , he went through the whole process of getting caught then eventually being able to get out the store with no trouble , he realized he messed up and wanted to pay for it. He wanted the hammer so bad and other tools that he went back to the store and asked if he can work for it. He then started working and eventually got his Hammer. “ Work Hard For What You
...and “shame”. Being able to develop this values will build a character strong enough to control your temper in hard, circumstantial situations, and what’s even more important, itll guide you through the correct path between choosing whats best vs. what’s the right thing to do.
After writing this essay, I realized that unfair, terrible things will happen around you, but the way that you fight these things is what matters and is what really makes a difference. When you face an issue that you feel strongly against, will you only result to violence, like Uncle Hammer, and then get into deeper trouble? Or will you use more cunning ways to solve it, like so many characters I have proven to you above, and solve the problem once and for all? This decision with a simple answer will change the outcome of the effect by a long way, so think
Many people grab for control over their own life out of anxiety and despair of just how far their life has spiraled out of control from what they wanted. That is the case of Al in Raymond Carver’s short story, “Jerry and Molly and Sally.” Al’s life in the first place didn’t have the greatest foundation. Financially, his life was like porcelain. Keeping the family afloat depended on his job. His job by the way was “laying off ... when they should have been hiring” (Carver 122). The first source of his anxiety is this. There was nothing he could do about this situation....
“But unlike his father, the son of this industrious man was such a lazybones that in the whole wide world there was none to equal him” from A Rupee Earned by I.F Bulatkin. All will have to confront a life-changing event that alters one’s path, and this concept doesn’t exclude the son in A Rupee Earned or me. In the story, a father teaches his son a life lesson with one simple action. The father required his son to earn only one single rupee in return for him passing down his inheritance, yet his son is reluctant to complete said task. Despite this bargain being totally in the son’s favour, he still refuses to cooperate, showing injudicious behaviour. He simply needs to labour for a week, then he can continue to be lazy for the rest of his life.
In Conclusion, the short story, “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” by Walter Dean Smith illustrates the theme that although a person might not be as fortunate as others, the smaller things in their life can mean just as
Gladwell demonstrates that hard work does not get people to high places but a series of opportunities and other factors will. What people have grown up to think about hard work is not true and it is demonstrated through these various examples. People will not be able to succeed, practice, and master their skills without opportunities, timing, devotion, and moral support. There is no such thing as “rags to riches” because those people would not be rich unless they had opportunities in their life. Remember that with out these key factors, people will never be able to succeed.
“Where you get it, that hammer, Al?” “I got it at the store.” “How you get it? You steal it?” Al Condraj finished the bench and sat on it. “No,” he said. “I didn’t steal it.” “How you get it?” “I worked at the store for it,” Al said. “The store where you steal it yesterday?” “Yes.” “Who give you job?” “The boss.” “What you do?” “I carried different stuff to the different counters.” “Well, that’s good,” the woman said. “How long you work for that little hammer?” “I worked all day,” Al saider thinking about everything he did he went back to the store and he actually worked for the hammer. He proved people that he could work for what he wanted and that his intentions weren't to steal the hammer. He wanted not just to prove himself but others that he wasn’t a
A globally recognized presumption is the aspiration to further one’s economic status. Human nature demands that man fend for himself and achieving greater financial and material stability surely satiates that need. However, acting in a manner that opposes that primal instinct is an ability that differentiates between man and beast. The challenge to deny oneself that desire for personal gain in order to care for a brother is presented clearly within novel Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck as each individual or group is faced with the choice to allow wealth to rule their lives, or to hold fast to the beliefs, camaraderie, and harmony that defines decency in humans.
Children are bound to make faults, whether it be a very minor mistake or massive complication, there is always the learning and reflection portion of any given situation. Learn, earn, and return is a statement that reflects the different stages in life and it is clear to understand the “learning” part relates to young adolescents learning new information and being exposed to the difficulties that could rise in any given moment. It enhances a child’s ability to take the courage they need in order to prosper in their everyday lives. Jacob encounters his confrontation on his standpoint on courage and how manages to learn and stick up to the expectations his grandfather enhanced upon him. In order to capture and embrace all the doubts, Jacob experiences throughout the novel, he has to think of all the “horrors Grandpa Portman had faced in his life, and felt [his] resolve harden” (Riggs 102) in order to fully accomplish the actions needed to solve many of the issues and questions within himself and the past history of his grandfather. This becomes a prime example as to why children need to experience the challenges life throws at them and while minors are being sent to prison, being held in the cells would interfere with a child’s development, not only socially but emotionally and
When I was a little boy my father was a salesman who distributed automotive paint to dealerships and body shops. The beauty of this job was that it was straight commission; the harder my father worked the more money he would make. I remember my dad preaching this to me as a little kid; “money is the motive son”. My father lived by this motto and busted his butt until he was making an income of six figures a year. Unfortunately, something catastrophic would happen changing my life in way that it would never be the same. In 2002, my father was on his normal delivery route when a drunk driver blew his stop sign causing my father to T-bone the driver at 70 mph. The drunk driver was able to crawl out of the car with little to no damage done to his physical health. My father, on the other hand, shattered his lower back and was told that if he wasn’t buckled that he would have been dead. Life would never be the same for my family and me after that day, but the one family lesson we learned was that money doesn’t regulate how happy you are.