The American Scholar

Thesis: Emerson’s argument in "The American Scholar” about American society doesn't holds true today.


    American people are not trained to do one thing in this world today, they my have been in the past but the way the economy is people aren’t holding to one known job. If a person were to have one job to live for every day there wouldn’t be enough jobs for everyone to have their own, there isn’t enough jobs now for everyone that works. Due to the fact that there are so many jobs along with people they need to alternate and be able to do multiply things, like the present day assemble line. Many jobs have a rights list and people have different rights to work with certain things.

    In the article "The American Scholar" Emerson states that people are made into machines when they are told to know one thing. Emerson also gives an example, if your born on a farm, raised on a farm, and do farm work then you probably going to do farm work. Well when your on a farm you do your own work, you plow the different types of fields with different types of equipment, you need to know how to run the electronics in your combines. There are multiply things needed to be known to be a farmer or do anything in life. So the point I'm trying to make is that a person cant only know one thing multiply things are needed when doing anything.