Walden Pond

about. Thoreau is a firm believer that nature is the key to becoming a person less dependent on society. In Walden, Thoreau says “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” By this statement, Thoreau is telling the reader to live in the day and let yourself go to nature. This is proven in Walden when he lists the materials used to be the cabin. It is proven again, in the Economy chapter. Thoreau…

two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail” (Where I Lived, 19). The idea of living a simple life is a central theme in Thoreau’s Walden where he presents his simple and self-reliant life at Walden Pond. He encourages individuals to let go of their materialistic views. Having less is much more significant that materialism and commercialism. “Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the…

The Optimism of the Individual to bring about Social Reform The idea of “civil" action, disobedience to connect individual action to the social good is a major part of Thoreau's belief system. Gandhi's march was "historical" because he recognized its ingrained life-changing nature. The "Long Walk to Freedom" is representative of how Mandela sees the end of apartheid in his vision. The call for sacrifice and pain that each thinker suggests clearly makes the case for an optimistic end. Thoreau's…

What is the difference between economy and ecology? By definition, the economy is the management of household affairs, especially expenses, thrifty and efficient use of resources; frugality in expenditures, and the structure of economic life in an area or a period (Miriam Webster). Ecology is a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environment, the totality or pattern of relations between organisms and their environment (Miriam Webster). Although these two…

go on adventures just to get away and escape from life. Until one day Chris went on the biggest adventure of his life up into the Alaskan wilderness. With giving up everything one of Chris’s inspirations was from Henry David Thoreau and his book “Walden”. Thoreau went into a wild of his own to get in touch with nature and simplicity as well. Many know that Thoreau was a big transcendentalist and wanted to just be one with the world, so Chris wanted to achieve being his own transcendental self.…

In a world without the different ideas from authors, readers would be reading the same types of stories without any diversity. There would be only one theme of a story until a brave author would break away from the chain and make a different type of story. Sure, the writer of the story would be rejected from society for a while, but the story they wrote will change the views of future author’s writing. Literature throughout history has shown many various ideas of themes. One of the most…

William Wells Brown and Henry David Thoreau both wanted to escape in similar but different ways. They both wanted their own sense of freedom and they took great measures to achieve their dreams. This may appear to be contradictory, but in this paper I will explain how even though they are similar, they are also different. I will also be analyzing these works. These observations are withdrawn from, and can be referenced to Brown’s The Narrative of the Life and Escape of William Wells Brown and…

Thoreau was a student of Emerson and transcendentalist leader. Inspired by Emerson, who lived in his hometown, Thoreau began exploring wild life. (Glick 1860) His connection to Emerson would forever be cemented once Emerson loaned his cabin on Walden Pond to Thoreau. It was from there in which he wrote what is considered to be his greatest work,…

transcendentalists also placed an emphasis on finding God in nature, self-reliance, idealism, and living in the present. Two persuasive leaders led the Transcendentalist movement, Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thoreau is best known for Walden, his book about living simply in the woods, and his ideas on disobeying corrupt governments and laws. Emerson strongly believed in the importance of individualism,…

old mindset I thought this story about a lady talking to this man that is native American and telling him about all the cool things that see-saw. A question I’ll have for the author is why did he use Spokane in this story when he talks about the Walden Ponds? Is there a lot of history of Native Americans in Spokane? This is the question I'll ask. The second critical strategy I used was gender. I feel like gender is a big part of this story, I say this because the main character is a male and…