"Self Reliance"

*Discuss the meaning of the verse preceding the essay.
-We are all different with a different personality.
-One shouldn't realign on anyone besides ourselves.

*Looking at the entire essay, what does Emerson mean by self-reliance? Objectively summarize Emerson's major points.
-The need for an individual to avoid conformity and false consistency and follow his or her instincts and ideas.
-Each persons voice can be as strong as the great men in history.

*Interpret the first sentence. what does every person realize at some moment of his or her education?
-Envious, ignorance

*"The eye placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray" Interpret.
-What I am going to focus on and what I am not going to focus on.
-Where ever I put my focus on is where I will get the most benefit.

*What does Emerson mean by the "divine idea which each of us represents" (pp.1)
-We but half represent ourselves and are ashamed of the divine idea that each of us represent.
-Each of us represent what we think is good.

*Explain the significance of the "iron string." Why do you think Emerson used iron and not silken, golden, or silver string?
-Every heart vibrates to that iron string.
IRON is STRONG so it connects the heart. 'Trust yourself"

*Define transcendentalism
-Go up and beyond a rebellion and education.
-An American literary, political , and philosophical movement of he early 19th century.

*Interpret this quote "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members"
-This says that we are aleays worring about ehat others thing or day about us, that we don't live our lives the way we want to.

*Explaine the quote "The virtue in mostrequest is conformity self-relience is its aversion"
-We are most times afraid to speek what we believe, but at some point in our lives we learn to face everything and anyone.

*Interpret the metaphore "A follish is the hobgoblin of the little minds, adored by the little statesman and philosophers and divines"
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*Discuss the use of the simile, "words as hard as cannon balls."
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*Respond to the essay. Write a paragraph expressing your reactions to this essay.
-As I was reading this essay everything that I was reading was making sence to me. I was saying to my self "ohh yeah that is very true" Its like things that I already know but I jsut never think about them in depth.  It is true that we are always worring about what others think or say about us that we don't live our life the way we wish to live it. How we are always needing an oppinion about the others when in reality no one knows what we want, like or feel. No body will ever know. you better but yourself. We should reveal ourselves, show everyone who we really are.