Leiningen Versus The Ants

In the story "Leiningen Versus the Ants" Leiningen the main character in the story is described as a positive and negative person feeling toward the ants but is also two of his bad flaws that gets him to work harder to defeat the ants and save his four hundred workers and plantation. This story was published in 1938 by Carl Stephenson who wrote of a plantation owner who has gone though plague, drought, and famine and now an army of ants'.You can imagine him as some tall, muscular man always puffing on a cigar surrounded by forestry and a plantation.

Leinigen also, has many characteristics that are both good and bad among them are his intelligence, resourcefulness. He is intelligence's is showing in the beginning of story
There an element an act of god...ten miles long two miles wide ants nothing but ants" so you can see that his stubbornness is kind of taking over at that moment so he stays and fight the ants'. Leinigen is stubborn thought out the story he does not leave he's and stays to fight the ants to destroy them and wins the battle of man versus nature in the first battle. Where his overly confidence comes into place is when he is when he does certain things to defeat the ant, like filling and draining the outer water filled ditch."Souls of ants were being carried away by the current into the middle of the ditch, where gradually they broke asunder and then exhausted by their struggle." he had confidence in that plan sadly Leinigen did not think that plan though to much cause the ants' did get over then at the inner ditch petrol filled ditch he thought that plan would work but every time ants got closer he would lit it then he soon realized that he was going to run out of petrol," The petrol sprinklers hitherto used to destroy pest and blights on the plantation, were also brought into action.Streams of evil-reeking oil now soared and fell over an enemy already in disorder through the bombardment of earth and
Then something outside of him seemed to drag him to his feet. He tottered. He began to stagger forward again."So he does have a since of bravery to, in the end Leinigen wins the battle of man versus nature. Leinigen does have some good and bad characteristics but, in the end he did what was right to save himself, people, and plantation so in the end he is proven to be a good person in the story he may not seem it and not sound the most intelligent but he has a plan that somehow manacles works in his favor.This book can keep you reading so you can understand why Leinigen does what he does you will be able to see what he feels throughout the