Ordinary People Produce Extraordinary Results

Summary:
This is an article written by Paul Rogat Loeb who gives comments on social issues provides his perspective to see a social heroine, Rosa Parks. The author breaks the conventional model shaped by our society and demonstrates the real story that brings up a successful person.
At the beginning, the authors recalls the time he meets a social heroine, Parks and finds out that the most important background was skipped in the introduction of Parks’ achievement of the civil rights development. The interviewer only describes it as the single-handed outcome without reporting other people’s hard working and the training that Parks have participated.
Through media, it is not easy for audiences to find a common people to reach a famous change. They try to highlight the marvelous actions making by heroes and pay no attention to most people’s assistance. As a result, people tend to consider heroes are born to achieve it and seldom think that an ordinary person is able to make a significant difference in dedicating our society.
The conventional thought also set a myth that it is too hard for common people to contribute such an achievement. They just see the outcome instead of noticing the examples that motivate their behaviors. They ignore the hard working process that common people have done before the critical change. The real story of the efforts are transferred by media and missed in public.
Park’s story shows that social change depends on people’s participation making the world better. However, people would give up because of the uncertainties and suspicion. The one who has the opportunity to change history needs to keep on hard-working and wait to activate modest fruit by chance.

Response:
In the article Ordinary People Produce Extraordinary Results, the author provides his own point of view to explore the main factors producing a social hero. The author discovers that the host only focused on the outcome and the conventional thought have shaped what a hero should be. He guides his readers to know the real story of a hero in the background.
Usually, our media reports the marvelous achievement, yet they do not tell the efforts that the heroes, their peers and the previous people have worked for. For example, when we talk about Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s revolution, do common people deeply discuss the details or the previous efforts that he and other people had prepared and worked? No, the media only shows his achievement, so we seldom notice the main factors that let him succeed.
The conventional thoughts also shape the hero as the person who is born to act extraordinarily. However, we can find the truth in the article that even ordinary people are able to produce extraordinary results like Parks. So, what are the mainly reasons that contributes her as a social heroine? Comparing to other people who have participated in civil rights development like her, they usually give up in the process of facing uncertainties and suspicion.
In my conclusion, an ordinary person can actually produce marvelous results. Although working hard for uncertain things can not guarantee people to reach their goals, it is out of the question for people to succeed if they give up before gain the fruit.