Anyyyyyy minute now I'll be rich

In Ragged Dick the image that the author portrays is false in its entirety. He basically tells everyone that if they just work hard at whatever they do, eventually something will randomly happen to them and they will become rich. This, however is not true. That does not happen. If you work hard and work your way up the ladder, you can become successful and maybe become rich. Just working hard doesn’t get you there. You have to have some luck and talent.

The author says that if you just stay in your own little place in the world something will find you. This is not true, because usually opportunities don’t find you, you have to go and find them. It’s not likely that you are going to end up on a ferry where a little kid falls over the edge, his father can’t swim, and you happen to be an expert swimmer. You jump over the edge and save the kid, who’s father happens to be a very rich man, and in return gives you a job, the very same kind of job you were wanting to get. He also pays you three times more than what you could get somewhere else.

Things like that just don’t happen. Sometimes, a random event could occur, but the likeliness is as small as the littlest doll in a Russian nesting doll set. I find this piece annoying because, I’m sure the author knew as he wrote it, that it was no where near reality. People are also naïve enough to believe him, and it’s people like that that end up poverty stricken, because they are just waiting for something to happen.