Individualism In The Earth On Turtle's Back

One pride that American culture values most is individualism; where one is self-reliant. However, individualism has taken its own course and developed over time. Previously, individualism was based on one’s own values and morals where they based their lives on their own ideals. The ideal of individualism developed into a set of morals and ideals of one individual in which their values and morals spreads to society. America was founded on the basis of individualism, where one is free to express their personal values and ideals. During this time, America had limitless amounts of land with vast resources where each man was able to claim their fortune based on their individual effort. Many immigrants who came to America were in pursuit of the
Just like the Chief of Skyland’s wife who had an individualistic idea, “The next morning she told her husband her dream. "This is very sad," he said, "for it is a dream of great power and we must do all we can to make it come true" ("The Earth on Turtle’s Back"), people began to realize that individualism could not be contained to one individual. Although the idea of individualism is set on the morals of one person, in order for their ideal world to come true, it needs to be shared with others. In The Earth on Turtle's Back, if not for an individual who had a vision, the world would have not existed, if Skyland's wife had not shared those ideas, it would not have come to past and there would have not been the new Earth. Many begin to find that their beliefs are important and that it is critical for others to share the same ideals in order to have a more peaceful society and to bring about radical changes. Keeping an ideal to oneself was found not to be beneficial as they would be acting on those ideas themselves. If they spread those ideas and get society involved, a bigger chain reaction may