Bound to Rise; Or, Up the Ladder
Author: Jr. Horatio Alger
Category: Other
Published: 2004
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Read OnlineAn inspirational story about how individual traits and efforts help one to rise and progress. It is the story that eloquently compares and contrasts between two characters: their attitudes, efforts and consequently their success and failure. It centers around a fourteen-year-old boy named Harry who leaves home in search of work. He is determined to pay a debt his father was forced to incur. By hard work and perseverance as well as his motto "Live and Learn" Harry overcomes challenges to meet his goal and returns victorious.