The Outliers Gladwell Analysis

In the First Chapter of the book “the outliers”, Gladwell gives the reader a overall view of what his big message is in the book. What he is trying to inform the reader.
He titles the book “The Story of Success”, he titles the book this to appeal to his audience. He is trying to appeal to those who want to strive and succeed in life, people who believe in the “climb to success”. He then begins the first chapter with a story that he lengthens and draws out he fills the reader with a suspenseful feeling. Gladwell lets the reader begin to question what does this story about hockey have to with success, “why is this important?”. He goes on to criticize Canadian hockey by stating “ Canadian Hockey is a meritocracy”. Gladwell transitions from canadian hockey to merit then leaves the paragraph with an ambiguous conclusion that questions that there might be something more to hockey players performance
He does this by giving multiple examples of success stories that show huge similarities to prove a point. He states twice what the book outliers is going to prove or what the reader should take away from the book. This is where he states his “thesis”, his main point. “In Outliers, I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing. We do owe something to parentage and patronage. The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot.” ( Gladwell pg. 19) His main point in this chapter is to inform the reader what this book will be about which is the idea that success is not just ambition there are more factors that control who and who doesn’t