Message To Garcia

Today in class, we finished the reading of A Message To Garcia. The message to Garcia was about how Rowan went on a mission to find Garcia who was fighting for Cuban independence at the time. The writer, Elbert Hubbard, shared his point of view about Rowan's heroic courage compared to other workers. Unlike Rowan, many workers try to get out of doing work. They asked a bunch of random questions, come up with excuses, and run away from their problems even when their job is simple compared to Rowan. However, Rowan didn't run away. He stepped up and took charge without having to be asked twice. Hubbard is not happy with the poor workers. He thinks that they should be fired, beaten with a club, and more. He believes that the boss deserves all of the credit because in his opinion, the boss' job is very stressful finding the right workers. It says in the passage that the boss' would just keep firing the poor workers until they came across the hard workers. I'm not sure that I believe some parts of the story, but what I do believe is that the Message To Garcia shows Initiative: doing your job without being told to.