Question

Thoreau's point in describing the ants' plight could best be summarized as:
A) The ants' struggle is just as heroic as human battles.
B)The ants' struggle represents man's will to live.
C)The ants' fight is representing racism in our country.
D)The ants' struggle represents the viciousness, yet insignificance of human wars.

Answer 1

One day when I went out to my woodpile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one another. Having once got hold they never let go, but struggled and wrestled and rolled on the chips incessantly. Looking farther, I was surprised to find that the chips were covered with such combatants, that it was not a duellum, but a bellum,(1) a war between two races of ants, the red always pitted against the black, and frequently two red ones to one black. The legions of these Myrmidons (2) covered all the hills and vales in my wood-yard, and the ground was already strewn with the dead and dying, both red and black. It was the only battle which I have ever witnessed, the only battlefield I ever trod while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans on the one hand, and the black imperialists on the other. On every side they were engaged in deadly combat, yet without any noise that I could hear, and human soldiers never fought so resolutely. I watched a couple that were fast locked in each other's embraces, in a little sunny valley amid the chips, now at noonday prepared to fight till the sun went down, or life went out. The smaller red champion had fastened himself like a vice to his adversary's front, and through all the tumblings on that field never for an instant ceased to gnaw at one of his feelers near the root, having already caused the other to go by the board; while the stronger black one dashed him from side to side, and, as I saw on looking nearer, had already divested him of several of his members. They fought with more pertinacity than bulldogs. Neither manifested the least disposition to retreat. It was evident that their battle-cry was "Conquer or die." I was myself excited somewhat even as if they had been men. The more you think of it, the less the difference. And certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment's comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed. I have no doubt that it was a principle they fought for, as much as our ancestors, and not to avoid a three-penny tax on their tea; and the results of this battle will be as important and memorable to those whom it concerns as those of the battle of Bunker Hill, at least.

Answer 2

What kind of assignment is this for

Answer 3

AP English

Answer 4

What question does this go for, test, homework, exam?

Answer 5

Homework.

Answer 6

If you're lying you can be failed from a class.

Answer 7

O..kay?

Answer 8

What do you think the answer is

Answer 9

I think it's A but I'm struggling.

Answer 10

mhmm

Answer 11

You think it's A too?