... is uncaring and eternal. We tremble at the sound of the word. We cry because of death's finality. We realize death will come, yet we still push ourselves to survive. From observing the role survival plays in Black Boy, Ellen Foster, Self-Reliance, Walden, Billy Budd, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Grapes of Wrath, The Catcher in the Rye, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and Red Badge of Courage, we can understand what it takes ... based around money, and our individualism is taken away. Thoreau tries to explain how society is based on "survival of the fittest," where the best peopl...

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