A Message to Garcia

Today in class Mr. Schick read "A Message to Garcia" and it seemed kind of weird at first. After we got into to it you could understand it more and more. Then some parts threw you off because this was written in 1899 after the war between Spain and the USA. It was describing stuff that happened during the war. The President sent Rowan on a mission to send this message to Garcia but they didn't know what his address was or where he was at. That didn't stop Rowan, he went to Cuba and went looking for him and didn't stop. He was very determined to find Garcia. Rowan stayed focused on his job and didn't let anyone distract him. He didn't care what other people did he just stayed focused on what we had to do. Elbert Hubbard (the author) was trying to show us that we need to do whats best and have self interest in what we are doing. We had a little discussion in class and talked about how its the beginning of the year and we have to be "Rowan" and stayed focused on our job and do well at what you do. It was a pretty good story to start out the school year with, it was to motivate us for the school year. After that class was pretty much over.