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Emerson's nonconformity can almost be seen as rudeness, as he encourages to speak the blunt truth: “ I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.”, “Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.” He also refuses to understand why he should help poor people: “are they my poor?” He doesn't care to be misunderstood, because “Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.

To be great is to be misunderstood.” Chris cannot integrate into his society and he ends up alienating his family, and creating a new life with a new name.

Whenever he is talking to people he met during his trip, he talks without even caring if his interlocutor gets what he is saying.

He was also bluntly honest towards his parents and seemed disrespectful to them.