HELP ME! homework question??

Question

In the Book "Lyddie" By Katherine Paterson

does anyone know what the connection is to Ralph Waldo Emerson??

Please help...

Answer 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous 1841 essay "Self Reliance" was written in Concord,Massachusetts, not too far away from Lowell. Perhaps Paterson alludes to thisprophet of self-sufficiency in naming Mary Emerson, an optimistic young womanwho organizes the factory girls to petition for ten-hour workdays

Answer 2

The full title is: Lyddie: Travel Within and Beyond,  which is a reference to Self-Reliance by RWE: Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it within us -- or we find it not.

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