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Elbert HubbardA Message to Garcia
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1899A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
Several things helped make Hubbard’s “Garcia” essay widely read. Explain two of these causes.
compare and contrast Rowan with Bartleby. What does each man stand for? Whose methods are best to achieve their goal?
Compare and contrast the modern workforce with the one described in “Garcia.” Are companies better off than before, or worse? Support you’re answers with specific examples.
List three examples of how incompetent workers behave and how, for each, a capable associate might behave differently.
To what extent is “A Message to Garcia” a capitalist text? A socialist one?
In what ways would a text like “A Message to Garcia” have influenced contemporary readers? Modern ones? What would have been most effective then? Now?
Do tracts such as Hubbard's sway politics and/or policies? Give examples.
