SAT Essay - Progress is not possible without sacrifice
Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
Topic: Progress is not possible without sacrifice
Sample Essay
In order to reach the top of a mountain and for that matter of any professions, one must study and train for years, then even when ready still toil for hours or days before reaching the top. This is true of many of lifes worthwhile challenges. In fact it is often impossible to make progress without sacrifice.
For example, in To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus Finch, a small town lawyer, defends a black man accused of raping a white woman. He does this despite being threatened and disparaged by members of his community. The purpose is clear, so is the potential risks, consequence, and sacrifices. Yet because of his willingness to sacrifice his social standing to do the right but unconventional thing, Atticus was able to launch a brilliant defense of his client. The lesson here is loud and clear without sacrifice, life would be savaged; without sacrifice, humanity, not just an individual life but the human civilization itself, might be at the verge of devastation and vanish.
Ray Bradbury conveys a similar theme in his novel Fahrenheit 451. In this book, Guy Montag, a fireman charged with burning down the houses of book-lovers, sacrifices his wife, his career and his lifestyle in order to have books. Without his great sacrifice, Montag would have continued to live a half-life of boredom and unhappiness. And he never would have known the freedom of thinking and of being challenged intellectually.
Over a century ago another man, Charles Goodyear, was willing to make similarly large sacrifices in order to support his dream of making rubber useful for all mankind. Charles spent seventeen years of his life experimenting with rubber, borrowing money to finance projects, going broke repeatedly and nearly losing his wife and family before discovering the secret that made rubber useful--a process called vulcanization. Had Mr. Goodyear not been willing to make these sacrifices he would never have reached his goal and it might have been many more years before rubber was made useful to the world.
And the world needs the contribution of men and women willing to make these sacrifices, if progress is to continue. Our current social problems, which still include racism, need to be faced by people with social courage like Atticus Finch and Guy Montag. Our world continues to need new inventions to improve life such as that created by Charles Goodyear. We will never stop needing such brave individuals who help to make progress in the world.
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