Wild Fruits Rhetorical Analysis

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Henry David Thoreau uses transcendentalist thinking in “Wild Fruits” to change the viewpoint of someone who placed importance on material acquisitions and pleasures. In the lines 56-59, Thoreau states, “Commonly, the less you get the happier and richer you are…” By this, he means that often times people who have less are happier than people who have more. The people who have more has more to loose and the people who have less have less to loose.

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