Having the Right Ideas.
Sometimes people need to get out of their comfort zone in order to learn something new. They are influenced by their experiences. This influence can lead to growth. In the article, “American Scholar”, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson explains that his intent is to explore the scholar as one function of the whole human being; the scholar is "Man Thinking." The remainder of the article is organized into four sections: the first three discussing the influence of nature, the influence of the past and books, and the influence of action on the education of the thinking man. In the last section, Emerson considers the duties of the scholar and then discusses his views of America. These two can relate because both are male writer. Both of them have different perspective on life. Emerson has ideas about things and Hunter Thompson talking about his life in a biker gang. Thompson wrote a book about being in a biker gang an …show more content…
Emerson states “these being his functions it becomes him to feel all confidence in himself, and to defer never to the popular cry” (Emerson 8). In this quote by Emerson, he is explaining that a person has all the confidence in the world. What I mean by this is that Emerson is stating that an American Scholar can have the confidence in the world to do. Most of what Thompson is saying in his book can sort of compare to Emerson idea. A quote from Hell’s Angels “ they rolled in, gunning their engines, and dismounted with such an easy, swaggering confidence that my first impulse was to drop my beer and run” (Hell’s Angels 238). Most of what this quote is saying that Thompson heard the Hell’s Angels coming on their bikes so his first instinct was to run away from them. I think in my opinion that Thompson did the right thing to run away from the Hell’s Angels. From ending is paragraph I hope that Thompson and Emerson kind of share the same
Sometimes people need to get out of their comfort zone in order to learn something new. They are influenced by their experiences. This influence can lead to growth. In the article, “American Scholar”, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson explains that his intent is to explore the scholar as one function of the whole human being; the scholar is "Man Thinking." The remainder of the article is organized into four sections: the first three discussing the influence of nature, the influence of the past and books, and the influence of action on the education of the thinking man. In the last section, Emerson considers the duties of the scholar and then discusses his views of America. These two can relate because both are male writer. Both of them have different perspective on life. Emerson has ideas about things and Hunter Thompson talking about his life in a biker gang. Thompson wrote a book about being in a biker gang an …show more content…
Emerson states “these being his functions it becomes him to feel all confidence in himself, and to defer never to the popular cry” (Emerson 8). In this quote by Emerson, he is explaining that a person has all the confidence in the world. What I mean by this is that Emerson is stating that an American Scholar can have the confidence in the world to do. Most of what Thompson is saying in his book can sort of compare to Emerson idea. A quote from Hell’s Angels “ they rolled in, gunning their engines, and dismounted with such an easy, swaggering confidence that my first impulse was to drop my beer and run” (Hell’s Angels 238). Most of what this quote is saying that Thompson heard the Hell’s Angels coming on their bikes so his first instinct was to run away from them. I think in my opinion that Thompson did the right thing to run away from the Hell’s Angels. From ending is paragraph I hope that Thompson and Emerson kind of share the same