Erik Lashbrook ENGLISH SELF RELIANCE I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. Ralph W. Emerson writes in Self Reliance. When it was time for Emerson to write or think he would rather be secluded from everyone, even those closest to him like his parents and wife. Self Reliance, to rely on your own capabilities and your own self. Should everyone be self reliant and not depend on any …showed first 75 words of 500 total…

…showed last 75 words of 500 total…probably easier in the eighteen hundreds to not follow the trends because in society today if you look or think different you are automatically turned away from the cool crowd. If you were to read Self Reliance today it would make you think a lot more in order to understand the point getting through to you. Even though it was written so long ago, readers today would still be able to read and understand it.