From the start of his employment, Mr. Keating had a different approach on teaching. He had first begun his class by having the …show more content…
The young boys who were influenced by the transcendentalism had protested Mr. Keating’s termination by standing on the desks while Mr. Keating had walked into the class to grab his belongings. Henry David Thoreau also displays this act of protest in the essay “Civil Disobedience”, when Thoreau is describing his immediate protest to the poll taxes of Massachusetts that go to support the movement of slavery. Thoreau thoroughly explains his thought process my saying, “I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of Massachusetts, and not wait till they constitute a majority of one,” (Thoreau 231). Thoreau is a true advocate of abolition and that is vividly expressed in his essay and even further displayed by young boys. Standing up against the administration to protect their teacher was a selfless move very similar to what Thoreau had done by not paying his