Civil Disobedience Rhetorical Analysis

Dear, Mr.Thoreau
I am writing to you to express my opinion on your job application. As I have heard you seem to fail at most things in your life. For example you have failed as a teacher and failed to find love, as I see the only thing you have going for you is you graduated from harvard. Also you are living off of someone else's pond and land. Here at our publishing firm of the government we hold people to higher expectations than that. We are also highly concerned about this statement in “Civil Disobedience” “I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.” and “Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, …show more content…
Why would you apply to our open job as you clearly started you could not be stuck with foolishness of an institution or fail to follow the government. It makes us wonder how you graduated from Harvard if you couldn’t ever stand having a job or making a decent living. As you made your little bit of money off being a carpenter and you graduated from Harvard, I clearly thought your professors would have wanted you to do much better. One of the only things we agree on is that you are against slavery as we are against too. We also like how independent you are, as you are living by yourself on this pond. As we love your creative writings about finding yourself with nature and living off the land. We just struggle to agree that people are, caught up in making a living, as we believe that is part of life. You could possibly go down in history as a poster child for Transcendentalism, as you definity one with nature and not motivated to do anything someone tells you for example a job. In addition from your readings we can tell you are a very spiritual person as in your “Civil Disobedience” writing this stood out to us “If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it