Semester Final: “The Individual” Essay
Have you ever felt like an outcast to society whether it be due to the way you look, act, say, or think., well if you have then have you ever thought about joining something called Individualism. In These three stories that were made by authors who thought the exact same question answered them in the stories they wrote. Mark Twain’s depicts the satirical novel “The Adventure Of Huckleberry Finn”, Twain uses Huck’s perspective in order to show him as a honest and trustfull narrator. By also allowing Huck to go and show the audience the hypocrisy of the white society., The author purpose is to criticize the racism, slavery, and the hypocrisy that existed in what a “civilized” society and in order to enact a social change., Walt whitman's free verse poem “Song of Myself” from his book Leaves of grass Published in the year 1885 the erra taking up the civil war, Takes place in a decrepit graveyard setting. Whitman’s purpose of writing this poem is to express to the people of the …show more content…
The story of these soldiers show that they fought their own reason weather it be following blindly, pride, family, or money, And with all this it shows us the individualism of the people during the war at this time. With Individualism being summed up as a person or being doing actions or how they see what they fight or live for in these three stories that we read they share this common trait with the characters in the book, poem, and diaries., As we look at the people from back in the eighteenth century or the nineteenth century compared to the lifestyle of being an individual in the twenty first century which has technology allowed us to both have a individualism to us but it also takes away from us what also makes us a individual with the ideal of making people envy us., With the idea of individualism from back then to now, it has changed but only miniscule and only with time and consideration maybe one day
Have you ever felt like an outcast to society whether it be due to the way you look, act, say, or think., well if you have then have you ever thought about joining something called Individualism. In These three stories that were made by authors who thought the exact same question answered them in the stories they wrote. Mark Twain’s depicts the satirical novel “The Adventure Of Huckleberry Finn”, Twain uses Huck’s perspective in order to show him as a honest and trustfull narrator. By also allowing Huck to go and show the audience the hypocrisy of the white society., The author purpose is to criticize the racism, slavery, and the hypocrisy that existed in what a “civilized” society and in order to enact a social change., Walt whitman's free verse poem “Song of Myself” from his book Leaves of grass Published in the year 1885 the erra taking up the civil war, Takes place in a decrepit graveyard setting. Whitman’s purpose of writing this poem is to express to the people of the …show more content…
The story of these soldiers show that they fought their own reason weather it be following blindly, pride, family, or money, And with all this it shows us the individualism of the people during the war at this time. With Individualism being summed up as a person or being doing actions or how they see what they fight or live for in these three stories that we read they share this common trait with the characters in the book, poem, and diaries., As we look at the people from back in the eighteenth century or the nineteenth century compared to the lifestyle of being an individual in the twenty first century which has technology allowed us to both have a individualism to us but it also takes away from us what also makes us a individual with the ideal of making people envy us., With the idea of individualism from back then to now, it has changed but only miniscule and only with time and consideration maybe one day