A Message to Garcia

            Today in class we reviewed “A Message to Garcia” by Elbert Hubbard. The passage is about a man who is asked to deliver a message to an insurgent group in a jungle during the war during the U.S. and Spain. When the man (named Rowan) is asked to deliver the letter, he asks no questions and does the task as asked. According to the story, the task was long, hard, and dangerous, and yet the man completed the task with no questions or complaints. This can relate to everyone as a worker, and the writer talks about how every worker should be like Rowan. This is true and it can also apply towards us as high-schoolers. Our class had a group discussion about this after reading the passage. We discussed different ways that this could apply to us, where the different categories included school and sports. Specifics on school involved us discussing how we could do better in school if we respected our teachers and didn’t ask questions about our work that delayed the process, and instead doing our best without any shortcuts to it. This could be applied in sports the same way, and even hobbies. We also discussed how the army still uses this (from almost every country) because they want to instill in the soldiers hardworking values. Following orders as Rowan did in the passage would definitely improve army efficiency.