Walden Pond

I see myself in Walden because I have realized, upon reflection, that my conclusions from facing the meanness of life mirror Thoreau’s conclusions in Walden. In “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”, Thoreau explains his motives for the unorthodox move to Walden Pond. Thoreau went into the woods to “drive life into a corner”, “live deliberately” and “publish the whole and genuine meanness of it [life]” (74). With these goals in mind, Thoreau entered an environment with obstacles requiring him to…

David Thoreau was a transcendentalist thinker who decided to live next to a pond for a while and write a book that most current day high school students despise. However, some of the lessons hidden in his abstract metaphors and confusing similes still hold weight today. One of the main focuses of Walden was to show readers that they can live off of the bare minimum and do not need fancy technology to live. His life at Walden Pond proved this notion. While many people may have read Thoreau’s…

In the essay “Walden”, David Henry Thoreau talks about his own experiences living on the shore of Walden Pond in Massachusetts for two years and two months alone. He describes the scenes that he saw in Walden and his feelings and reactions in details. One of the most important parts in Thoreau’s essays is that he uses “I” to write the essays. He also introduces his own philosophy away from the reality world and his thoughts about the nature and human at the beginning of the essay. He believes in…

In Walden chapter two, Henry Thoreau points out on where lives and what he lives from. One of his main points in this chapter is that every person has a divine power to create and develop the kind of surrounding he chooses to live in and what he wants to live from. He also brings up the issue ofthe great feeling of achievement that comes with creating or coming up with something, like he did by building his own house.By speaking of creation, he does not try to raise his standards or raise…

Elizabeth Coyle Mrs. Whitford English one honors E Mod 2 February 2018 Chapter One Summary Thoreau’s stated purpose in "Economy" is to explain why he moved into a tiny cabin near Waldon pond in Concord, Massachusetts. He's even more eager to describe how his two-year stay at Walden Pond helped him to live out his principles, which he talks about very much and in detail. This chapter covers the ways he survived. Thoreau doesn’t want to have a normal life and follow in the ways of society. "The…

Walden, by Henry Thoreau, is a book that reflects upon leading a simple life in the nature. Thoreau settles by the Walden Pond and begins to experience the nature. The Bean Field and Brute Neighbors from Thoreau’s experiences in Walden demonstrate an important aspect of life. In The Bean Field, Thoreau describes his life in cultivating beans on a rural field. Meanwhile, Thoreau explains his observation of the ant combat in Brute Neighbors. Overall, The Bean Field and Brute Neighbors suggest…

I want to present two people, Henry David Thoreau and a vegan. Thoreau was an American Romantic who decided to go to the woods to live off the land, so he spent a year at Walden Pond hoeing beans and watching the water to show that anyone can sustain themselves on a small budget and nature while a vegan abstains from consuming any animal products. What do they have in common? Stereotypically, vegans are outspoken and obnoxious, and for some, Thoreau is annoying and irrelevant. Yet they share a…

Thoreau recalls the several places where he nearly settled before selecting Walden Pond, all of them estates on a rather large scale. He quotes the Roman philosopher Cato’s warning that it is best to consider buying a farm very carefully before signing the papers. He had been interested in the nearby Hollowell farm, despite the many improvements that needed to be made there, but, before a deed could be drawn, the owner’s wife unexpectedly decided she wanted to keep the farm. Carolyn Chang Honors…

What is walking? Is it an aimless way to waste time with no real destination? Do we as humans walk with a purpose or with somewhere to be? In Henry David Thoreau’s piece, Walking, he discusses the beauty of nature and how we as humans are “an inhabitant of nature, rather than a member of society. (Pg. 49)” Thoreau discloses how we as a society never are able to just get out and walk anymore. We spend so much of our lives with places to be and things to do that we never have time to walk around…

In the excerpt from the second chapter of Walden titled “Where I Lived and What I Lived For,” Thoreau crafts an intricate argument which advocates for self-realization within every individual. A specific line stood out to me which stated, "The beauty of nature reforms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation." Through this quote, the gears in my head started rolling again as they had laid in slumber for a rather long a period time. In my short time here on earth…