Analysis Of Live Of A Cell By Lewis Thomas

In “Live of a cell,” by Lewis Thomas, Thomas acknowledges the connection between being useless as an individual, but being important when becoming a part of a bigger whole/society. Thomas uses a very critical and bitter tone to express that an ant are like humans, even if we deny the reality that our society are alike ants. Lewis Thomas connects an ant colony at a gallery as a body experiencing torment.Lewis’s experience with 2 million ants dying are exactly the same feelings with 2 million humans dying “twinges of sympathy, and something else” the idea that he feels something within a society, that he refuses to be similar to humans. Thomas feelings are an example of the purpose of his work- the individual in a society. Thomas as an individual just doesn’t have any power alone, for the reason that 2 million ants dying is more impactful than stepping on one. Thomas experiences this because he feels like an ant. Thomas being a writer, even address that …show more content…
A human can only survive so long alone like an ant. The group of scientist thinking together like a new body could easily describe ants colony as a new beast. Thomas useswords associated with insects and other animals to humans, is very critical with the humans not a human. Individuals are rarely mentioned in the text because Thomas uniquely connects ants society with human society. Thomas refers to a single ant as a part. A singular human isn’t even mentioned and that’s beautiful. Every human is a part of human society, humankind to the point that we’re not individuals. Just like ants, we are a beast together, but get stepped on every day with no thought. Thomas leaves a unique question of individual to answer with a group. “ It is of course, an incomplete comfort to read this sort of thing to one’s self. For full effect, it needs reading aloud by several people at