'extending the critical context' #9 page 284

“Dalton argues that the Alger myth should be buried, or, to use his word, ‘interred’.” When supposing for the moment that I am agreeing with the fact that Alger’s myth should be demolished, I believe that it can only be accomplished once people start to realize is an actual myth. I think that it is just like presenting an argument and having significant reasons for your argument. A way that having an argument with reasons refers to interring Alger’s myth is that one can’t really stop believing in what they already believe until there are reasons behind it. For example, some one is not just going stop believing in the fact that ragged can become rich because they don’t have reasons behind it. People won’t start realizing that this is a myth until facts support why and that they are told that it isn’t true from the “get go” or since they’re little. It’s basically like a mind set when believing that the more money equals the more power. It is our job (as Americans) to stop believing that with some kind knowledge that classes shouldn’t mean anything.