At first Thoreau describes the battle between the ants as a whole, than he gets more and more specific until he takes a wood chip and takes it into his house to observe it more. During this observations he records the feeble struggles of the red ants who are finally overwhelmed by the much larger black ant. Even though the large ant won the battle, he suffered terrible losses. It is not known whether or not the ant survived the battle, but is left up to the readers imagination. This section of the story describes human wars and battles that have taken place. All wars were bloody and none without tremendous losses on both sides. There is only one war that is an oddity among wars and that war is the Cold War. This is not the Cold War however, these

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Approximate Word count = 506
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)