A Message to Garcia

Today I was really inspired by the story Mr. Schick read us. But before I get to that, I need to tell you what happened at the beginning of class. The mod started off with a few people asking questions about their blogs. I thought that this was going to be exactly like yesterday, where we did not get to any lessons and I just sit there listening to questions. But things changed quickly. Some kid who sits near me asked if we could have those donuts that were in a bag underneath Mr. Schick's desk. Mr. Schick kind of ignored the question and started talking about the clubs that he was running, like the film club and the debate team. Then Mr. Schick told us to open our composition books. He was going to read us an article written by Elbert Hubbard, called "A Message to Garcia". The article took place during the Spanish-American War, and was about how President McKinley asked a man named Rowan to deliver a letter to Garcia, who was a general in the war. No one knew where Garcia was, except for the fact that he was somewhere in the mountain ranges of Cuba. When Rowan was asked to accomplish this task, he did not ask "Where is he?". Instead, he managed to complete the task by delivering the letter, even though he did not know where he was. Do people nowadays always set an example like Rowan did? People can now be lazy, or ask questions to make the task simpler or to get out of doing the assigned job. We were copying down notes in our composition books as he was saying this, and every so often he would stop reading the article and would ask us what that just meant. Everyone had there own opinions onto what the main message of the article was. I think the main message is to be worthy of delivering a message to Garcia.