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Hard Work - Coggle Diagram

- - - - In All Gold Canyon, the man works hard over the course of many days to find the gold pocket, though after he finds it, a thief shoots him and attempts to take all of the gold for himself. This shows how people will attempt to reap the benefits of other’s hard work, in this case it being material wealth.
- - - - In The Battle with the Slum, Jacob A. Ruis talks about how impoverished people are thrust into their poverty, and how working hard doesn’t translate into escaping poverty.
  - - - In A Political Candidate, the candidate talks about how he values the means to get money, rather than hard work which is used to get money. The significance of this is that the candidate recognizes how work does not translate equally into money based on the effort put in.
- - - - In Beloved Sethe is an escaped slave who gives birth beside a river while still knowing that at any moment, slavecatchers could find her. Sethe’s hard work to escape and bear another child ultimately however, fails to succeed at having a happy life with another child, because not all hard work is rewarded equally, and Sethe is forced to kill Beloved.
  - - - In Bartleby the Scrivener, Melvin expresses how he holds a belief that a life that is easy is the best. The fact that he desires this even though he himself has landed in a stable job, shows that a person going through hard work does not necessarily mean success in life.
- - - - In Praise of the Strenuous Life, the patriotic work of the citizens of the U.S.A are partially defined by the greatness of the original founding fathers, as well as the people who fought in the Revolutionary & Civil War. Patriotism is defined by T.D. Roosevelt as working as hard as your famous ancestors from before, and this motivates people to work harder due to the fact that it is seen as a responsibility.