Ralphs

“You didn’t hunt.” (p. 78) Neither Ralph or many of the littluns hunted yet they still received their portion of meat. This cruel treatment was to be directed only at Piggy. Jack’s behavior towards Piggy shows that he is incapable to understand other people, a good leader would have taken care of all his followers. Ralph understands that he must treat everyone as equals or he will not be respected and is a better leader than Jack because of this knowledge. In conclusion, Ralph is a…

will inevitably fail. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies the main character, Ralph, attempts to lead the boys. However, the antagonist, Jack, is far too cruel and power-hungry for Ralph to ever succeed in his mission to get the boys rescued and keep them civil. This is why although Ralph was eventually overthrown, he was an effective leader and did the best he could with the resources he had. The fate of Ralph is not one that hinges on him being the leader. If another had attempted to take…

as you get older focus on the future and make better choices. But in Emerson’s story “self-reliance” he states that “To believe in your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius."(Ralph Emerson) He says that “self-reliance” is basically the reliance on someone 's own thoughts and ideas. Self-reliance “As a youth, we act with independence and irresponsibility,…

Of The Flies, William Golding portrays Ralph as a good but confused leader. When Ralph was first appointed leader, it was hard for him to adapt to that position. He didn’t know what to do with the kids on the island. In chapter five, Golding says “He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet” (77) to show what type of a leader Ralph was and how he changed over time.…

The education system defined in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay on Education states that all students should have an equal education, however, the school system doesn’t follow this, leading to a gap between the students, in fact the true Emersonian definition of education is closing this gap by providing programs that helps these students, benefitting society. The education system wants people to believe that their children are all receiving the same education between each other regardless of their…

Societal Conformity Henry David Thoreau and others who rebel against the norm of societal conformity must accept the consequences that entail. During the Transcendentalist era of writing, writers such as Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about demonstrating how an individual must rebel against societal conformity in order to seize the day, but yet willingly accept the consequences it entails. Whitman and Emerson did not take as much action upon their…

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an avid writer who had many topics to write about. In one of his most famous works, “Self Reliance”, he uses many different tactics to develop his writing to become effective. Ralph Waldo Emerson achieves getting his message through to the audience by using metaphors and pathos. In the stroy Emerson uses metaphors an abundance of times to compare things. Ralph uses metaphors such as, “The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular…

as a human you must first understand the universe and nature is indeed the pathway to that understanding.Without nature we would have no pathway to the understanding of the universe beyond ourselves. “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit” (Ralph Waldo…

In “Battle Royal”, Ralph Ellison sets his story after the Reconstruction. In his story, the white, elite leaders of the time, invite the narrator to the hotel room to deliver graduation speech. However, before he can deliver his speech, the narrator becomes involved in a brutal box-match against the other workers. Similarly, in “The Lottery”, the village initially, seems calm. Yet, at the end, it is revealed that due to the long held tradition, a person, who has picked a paper with black dot…

commodity, beauty, language, and discipline. The pieces of “from Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson and “Living Like Weasels” by Annie Dillard each share argumentative categories that are easy to compare and contrast. Although each author has his or her own perspective on the value of nature, they both make it obvious their purpose for challenging the audience to see the true meaning of nature. The excerpt “from Nature” written by Ralph Waldo Emerson explains the relationship between the natural…