Notes over Questions for Emerson
In continuing with your investigative reporting, respond to the following questions using well-developed sentences. Copy and paste the questions into a word processing document. You will submit this document as part of your assessment for this lesson. 1. According to the first sentence what does every person realize at some moment in his/her education?
According to the first sentence in “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, every person realizes that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, that they must take themselves for better, or worse. Also that though the universe is full of good, he has to work for himself to be just as good. 2. What is the opposite of "self-reliance," according to Emerson?
The opposite of “self-reliance,” according to Emerson would be conformity, or to conform. 3. What does Emerson see as the most sacred aspect of a person?
Emerson see’s the integrity of one’s own mind, which means, one’s own way of thinging, and being able to be themselves and not what others want. 4. What does Emerson think of people who call for consistency in thought and action and who fear being misunderstood?
Emerson thinks that people who call for consistency in thought and action and who fear being misunderstood are hobgoblins of little minds, and that to be great is to be misunderstood. 5. Emerson makes many of his points through a series of figures of speech - comparisons between two things that are basically unlike. In "Self-Reliance" what does he compare with the ordinary things and events listed below. Be sure to respond in complete sentence format.
Example: He compares cannon balls to words: "Else if you would be a man, speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today." A. Planting corn;
Emerson compares planting corn to the universe, and the people in it. He says, “that through the wide universe is
According to the first sentence in “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, every person realizes that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, that they must take themselves for better, or worse. Also that though the universe is full of good, he has to work for himself to be just as good. 2. What is the opposite of "self-reliance," according to Emerson?
The opposite of “self-reliance,” according to Emerson would be conformity, or to conform. 3. What does Emerson see as the most sacred aspect of a person?
Emerson see’s the integrity of one’s own mind, which means, one’s own way of thinging, and being able to be themselves and not what others want. 4. What does Emerson think of people who call for consistency in thought and action and who fear being misunderstood?
Emerson thinks that people who call for consistency in thought and action and who fear being misunderstood are hobgoblins of little minds, and that to be great is to be misunderstood. 5. Emerson makes many of his points through a series of figures of speech - comparisons between two things that are basically unlike. In "Self-Reliance" what does he compare with the ordinary things and events listed below. Be sure to respond in complete sentence format.
Example: He compares cannon balls to words: "Else if you would be a man, speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today." A. Planting corn;
Emerson compares planting corn to the universe, and the people in it. He says, “that through the wide universe is