The article “the ant and the grasshopper” by “W. Somerset Maugham” from ESL class states two people tom and George play roles same as the ant and grasshopper from fable story. Like ant, George was working hard. But tom was different to the George, he was lazy and he just wanted to have fun for everyday life. His attitude to life was similar to the grasshopper, because grasshopper singing to the summer and begged for food when winter came. But the ending between tom and grasshopper was totally different. Tom was getting rich and still had fun for life. After reading those two story, I was more believed in Maugham’s story which was the real event happened to two people.
In my opinion, people should enjoy their lives and take rest after long working for money. As we know many people like George hard working every day, that makes them looking order and never know what happening now outside of their working place. It shouldn’t be the life we want to live in, because we may have some problems if we just working all the time. Like many immigrants, they come here to have better life. Because of that they need to work harder than Native Americans, also some situation like they don’t speak and write English make them have no chance to have better job which is not need to work for many hours in their restaurant. I think they should take time to relax that is better to their health; also they can learn something when they are playing outside.
Depending on my opinion and Maugham’s story, hardworking is harmful to people. Proper rest is good to us. Sometimes we may have windfall when we are playing and going to a vocation.
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