American novel is the answer.
College is a lot of money, which most people don't have that much money. If you get a scholarship then it's like all your problems go away. For the lower-class people, they need to work harder than the higher-class because they don't have the same privileged as the others. When you don't have the same privilege as others you need to work harder than the others.
People is the object because they are the recipient of the action.
They is the subject because they are the ones taking action.
