Entry 34: Theme of Self-Reliance

The theme of Emerson's essay is first related to nature but the grand message and teaching of the writing is not focus on nature. Self-reliance is the theme of the literary work. Nature is a complimentary element that's create a background and also a symbol for the writing. The theme is developed through figure of speech. Basically self-reliance is the essence of independence. When a person is self-sufficient, able to live on its own, is a rugged individual, can support all the living essentials of oneself, and is independent, then one is considered an adult and out of adolescence. Adolescence begins with puberty, however, everyone has a different time they end adolescence. Different individual ends adolescence at different time and different generations of people end their adolescence at different time too. At rural areas or a few centuries ago people are forced to leave adolescence early and some even had to send money back home to support their family. For people like them they almost don't have adolescence because by the time they hit puberty and enters adolescence they probably had to begin working to support themselves because if they are not independent and be able to support themselves they would probably starve to death along with their families.