Clear Paths To The Past Analysis

Putting your best into what you do, and being proud of it, makes your work much more valuable. In these passages, being proud of your work is demonstrated. In the short story, “ Clearing Paths to the Past”, the narrator describes the importance of keeping his sidewalks and driveway clean, and he describes his personal reward for doing it. In the story, he said that after he spent all day shoveling, he would rest on the shovel and look at the result of his hard work. This action shows that he is proud of the work that he had done and it meant something to him.
In the poem, “ To be of Use”, the narrator expresses that “the people she loves the best” are those that put their all into the work that they do. She says that “I want to be with