Activity 7(pp. 24-25): 1) In the newspaper I read an article about match and tinder. A person in internet creates a fun and flirty profile on an online dating website. 2) As an audience, …show more content…
Thoreau seems to be self-contained and calm
2) “I have never declined paying the highway tax, because I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject, and, as for supporting schools, I am doing my part to educate my fellow countrymen now.” (Paragraph 37) He makes clear the ways in which he wants to support the state and his fellow countrymen. “If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies, and so a man.” I think he is comparing how a plant and a man live and it is one type of an analogy.
3) “If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth, certainly the machine will wear out”(Paragraph 19) Mr. Thoreau referring “machine” to the “government”. “but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”(Paragraph 19 ) Mr. Thoreau is trying to tell the readers, that citizens have a responsibility to break the …show more content…
141-42): 1) When you open a book, you begin with a certain mindset that predisposes you to read in special ways, and you read with expectations about the author’s tone and voice and the textbook’s format. 2) “In February she was dying”, this woman is dying. She finds out that her family is traveling to see her and love of her family brings this woman back to life
Interchapter 4:
Henry David Thoreau, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”
1) Thoreau is trying to make an argument that would sit well with the founding fathers and this helps me to predict the way in which Thoreau is going to make his argument.
2) knowing that Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. are is civil disobedience, reminds the reader to read respectfully and pay attention to every single detail. 3) I think he was a great writer in his time.
4) Mr. Thoreau was trying to reach all citizens of the united states and he did a remarkable job. In the appeal to pathos, he described his time in prison, for not paying poll-tax and he said that the jail cell was like an