Kady Richards
Mrs. Todorovich
English III
16 November 2014
3.3 wo Idealists: Double Feature
Part 1:
1. According to the first sentence what does every person realize at some moment in his/her education?
According to the first sentence, every person realizes at some moment in his/her education that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, the universe is full of good, and they must take themselves for better and for worse.
2. What is the opposite of "self-reliance," according to Emerson?
The opposite of “self-reliance” according to Emerson is sympathy and delight.
3. What does Emerson see as the most sacred aspect of a person?
Emerson sees that intellectual power as the most scared aspect of a person.
4. What does Emerson think of people who call for consistency in thought and action and who fear being misunderstood?
Emerson things that people who call for consistency in thought and action and who fear being misunderstood are a shadow on the wall.
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.
Planting corn: no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
An iron string: Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Clay: He's says, "Don't be revolutionaries but [rather] redeemers and benefactors, pious aspirants to be noble clay under the Almighty effort
Part 2:
I agree with the statement: “That government is best which governs not at all”. I agree with this statement because we need a government that leaves all the decision up to the people and people only, we need a small government, and the
