"Ragged Dick"

In order to be successful, you must work hard, take a chance, and you will eventually be rewarded. This is an implicit argument that is made in “Ragged Dick”, by Horatio Alger. Dick works as a low-wage worker, but then decides that he really wants to work in a counting-room. He saved up one hundred dollars, and decided to reward himself by taking a boat ride. On that boat ride, he saved a little boy from drowning and was offered a much higher-paying job as a clerk in a counting-room by the little boy’s father.
Dick worked very hard to save up one hundred dollars while working at his previous job at only three dollars per hour. Dick was very motivated, and he never gave up. He had applied to many other counting-rooms, but was never accepted. Dick however, didn’t give up, and it paid off. Having motivation and working hard is the only way to be successful. If you want something then you have to work for it.
Dick would have never gotten the job as an accountant if he hadn’t acted on impulse, jumped in the water, and saved the boy from drowning. Dick was a morally good person with a good heart, and he took a chance and risked his life to save another. He took a chance that possibly could have killed him, but he took it at the chance of possibly saving the life of another. Sometimes, taking chances is the only way to move on in life, because you will never know what could have happened if you don’t take a chance. Dick took a chance, and another successful opportunity opened for him.
Alger conveys this is an implicit argument by creating the story of Dick and showing how he got his opportunity to be successful. Alger writes about how Dick worked very hard to raise one hundred dollars, and how he acted on impulse to save the child, and what his reward was- success. Alger doesn’t directly come out and state that in order to be successful you must work hard and take a chance, but instead conveys this message implicitly by showing the effects of hard work and taking a chance in a story-like argumentative form.