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Micheal Donovan It's All On Me

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“It’s All-On-Me”, by Micheal Donovan is a very weighted contributor to the belief of finding yourself and self reliance. Emerson, Krakaur, Thoreau, and Donovan share these common themes, but every one of them has their own way of portraying it. Self reliance is reliance on one’s own powers and resources rather than those of others. Thoreau portrays this belief in his short story, “Civil disobedience”, in the beginning by explaining, “I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”, contributing to the belief of self reliance and not having to depend on the government. Krakaur gives an example of self reliance in “Into the Wild”, on page 6 chapter 1. When Gallian asked Alex if he had a hunting license, Alex replied, “Hell, no.”, “How I feed myself is none of the government’s business. Fuck their stupid rules.” This line is explaining how self reliant Alex is and how he doesn’t need the government. Emerson explains his belief on self reliance in, “Self Reliance”. The quote that speaks the most volume to me is his quote, “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity by your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of this world.” Donovan’s …show more content…

In Krakauer’s, “Into the Wild”, I believe he portrayed finding yourself with Alex going into the wild and living by himself for a while. Alex was using the wild nature of Alaska to live off of the land and to find himself. Emerson did this in, “Nature”, by explaining, “In the woods is perpetual youth.”. In this quote he is explaining that in the woods, man finds himself perpetual youth or the way he once was. In Thoreau’s, “Civil Disobedience”, this subject was portrayed in the sentence, “It is not the vitality of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will”. In Donovan’s poem, he exclaims, “A Note-To-Self I will send.”, speaking to himself and uncovering what he

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