The Transcendentalist

Effects of Sectionalism on the Civil War As the Antebellum Era stretched across America, a strain between Northern states and Southern states escalated to the Civil War. Differing opinions on state’s rights, slavery, and federal authority grew stronger than the bonds of brothers, to the point of a nation set against itself. Decades of simmering tension finally hit its boiling point on a divided nation. Sectionalism was a fundamental cause of the Civil War due to economic differences and varying…

fact he was well known and loved by his classmates. He comes from a family with concrete standards with little room for error, so being an only child just added more pressure for success. In the prior school years Neil was an image of what transcendentalists disliked. For example, at the beginning of the film he obeyed his father by quitting yearbook…

away unharmed” (324). Through his introduction of Moby Dick as the immortal embodiment of a primal force, Melville imbues the whale with an otherworldly quality. The whale is an ancient force of nature, a manifestation of destruction. In a post-transcendentalist period, Melville rejects the spiritual connection between man and nature as he portrays Moby-Dick as an antagonist: destructive rather than healing. Just as the whale thwarts Ahab’s attempts to kill it, nature unrelentingly foils…

Into the Wild rough draft Chris McCandless was born into a wealthy family, taking vacations every year along with being a little spoiled. Unfortunately, he didn’t have such a good relationship with his family, which led Chris to run away only being close to his sister. Jon Krakauer’s novel, Into the Wild, shows us that even the rich people that have everything that one can ask for, also go through alot. In Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer characterizes Christopher McCandless as self reliant and…

The Fall of the House of Usher is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1839.Whether one reads this story sincere expression of horror, or is Poe simply mocking as metaphysical speculation on the identity of matter and spirit, or as a psychological study of the powerful influence a deranged mind may have on a sane one, or even simply as a Gothic horror chiller, it remains a genuine masterwork of American fiction. The narrator of the story tells of an autumn visit to the House…

Jon Krakauer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Michael Donovan, and Henry David Thoreau are all great authors who are unique in their own special way, however, each of the authors write about one central idea that is portrayed in most of their work. Transcendentalism. Transcendental ideology is the belief that the things of the world such as the government and society itself have taken away the freedom of individuals, and have forced people to no longer live a “self-reliant” life. Krakauer, Emerson, Donovan…

James Truslow Adams’ definition of the American Dream was that “life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement”. To be an American means that every citizen has an equal opportunity to have a fulfilled life of freedom, happiness and success. An extreme situation in which this lifestyle can be found and understood is in the book, Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer. The book illustrates the life of Chris McCandless, a young…

Here Alex is showing his distance from the government and their laws. He wants to make a name for himself but not because of what someone tells him to do for their reasons. Alex does not feel that the government has any right to what he does and how he feels. By saying this Alex is only showing more defiance towards the government and the way of life that he has left. The cuss words bleeped out show that he feels very strongly about this, he gets not angry but more upset when he says this. That…

An accomplished writer of short stories, poetry, plays, essays, autobiographies, editor, and children's book author, he is most known for his poetry. Hughes is often seen as the primary African-American poet of the twentieth century because of his ability to capture the Harlem Renaissance and the period of the blues in his writings. His poems “Too Blue,” “Ballad of the Landlord,” and “The Weary Blues” show his style of rhyming, making them almost song-like. His style of using rhythms and…

Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the most respected and recognized early American authors. His written stories are filled with both exciting events and disheartening scenarios. The unwritten story of his life, however, is just as interesting as his novels and short stories. Hawthorne was born on July fourth, eighteen hundred and four in Salem, Massachusetts. His birth name was actually Nathaniel Hathorne; he would later add the “w” to his name to distance himself from his ancestor, John Hathorne.…