Charles Lindbergh Biography Essay

Charles A Lindbergh was born on the 4th of February, 1902. He was the most known celebrity of the 1920s. His status as national hero was created after he travelled alone and made the most historic flight from New York to Paris in 1927. He had a lot of adventures in his life. His life went through a lot of changes, from being a religious skeptic to being a believer of god, from being a highly-celebrated person to being a defamed one as well as from a person who used to believe that scientific technologies would bring benefits to humankind to a person who then believed that technologies can destroy humans. Both Lindbergh’s fame and later received defame was the due to his individualism. After a certain period, his father and his mother drifted apart but he still maintained good relationship with both. Both of his parents never focused on formal religion, which might have made the young Lindbergh a religious skeptic. He used to love exploring open spaces and visiting farm. After he was admitted in to a school, it was mentioned “As usual, he displayed little interest and preferred to pass his time combining the beaches, indulging his lifelong fascination with nature.” (page 13). He enjoyed freedom more than anything. He did not enjoy school times. He used to refer school as a burden. He never loved …show more content…
As written in the book by Mark C. Carnes “The US celebrates the rugged individualist in reality, it does so only selectively” (Carnes, page 157). This quotation is very true because when his individualism made him take a flight from New York to Paris, people called him national hero, but when his same individualism made him run an anti- interventionist movement for his own country then he became unpatriotic in front of them. His attempts and response to his attempt give us knowledge on how an individualist is treated in a