Rags To Riches By Horatio Alger

According to dictionaries, the formal definition of “rags to riches” is used to describe a situation in which a person who begins his or her life in extreme poverty and moving to great wealth. Through the definition and the articles regarding the influence of Horatio Alger’s stories of success, we can conclude the concept of “rags to riches” is to motivate people who born into the bottom of our social hierarchy pyramid that they can change their life prospects and become successful by having strong character as well as a little luck. In “Moving beyond “Rags to Riches” by Tyler Anbinder, he does not agree the concept of “rags to riches” because it is not a good example to apply to the Irish famine immigrants. As stated by Anbinder, “Most immigrants did not expect
In addition, “Those who did found that hard work, good health, frugality, and a talent for entrepreneurship—the “luck and pluck” that Alger extolled—were far better rewarded in the United States than they had been in Ireland.” Despite the fact that hard work and talents play an important role in achieving success, one without any true opportunity or suitable environment is very difficult to rise from poverty to wealth. Furthermore, In “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” by Jean Anyon, she also questions the concept of “rags to riches”. According to Anyon, “These differences may not only contribute to the development in the children in each social class of certain types of economically significant relationships and not others but would thereby help to reproduce this system of relations in society.” She argue that the different of teaching methods employ between the five schools led to the current social system that can keep the people from the lower class from moving up. Furthermore, the concept “rags to riches” is also one of many reasons that shaped up our society which has created a wide range of inequality social