Walden

“Walden” by Henry David Thoreau attempts to demonstrate the benefits of straying from “civilized society” and learning about life by living in the woods at Walden Pond. He documents the ways in which he was not only able to survive, but learn from the simplicity and beauty of the woods. Thoreau expresses that his interest in such an…

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Seashell – The Catcher in the Rye As I looked at the flowers that Thoreau had collected during his time near Walden pond, they started to glow an intense violet color and I was transported once again. This time I found myself in front of the Museum of Natural History in the 20th Century. Loving museums, I entered the museum and I saw a very distinctive person…

“Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure…” Henry David Thoreau (page 400). When Thoreau was a child he rarely followed directions. He was independent and strong-willed. Thoreau went to Harvard. After college Thoreau got a teaching job. Due to corporal punishment he had to quit. Henry opened his own school in Concord with his brother. The school was successful but because John, Henry’s brother, became ill they had to close the school (page 377). Thoreau often uses the word…

Question 1: What role did technology change play in improvements in agriculture during the era of the market revolution? What kind of impact on values did such changes foster? When technology booms, there is no surprise to the beneficial advantages that come forth from agriculture, industry, and transportation: there was no exception in the market revolution of 1815. “One of the earliest and most important… was an iron plow introduced by Jethro Wood in 1819;” the plow led to the modification of…

Growing up in the in a small town in the country of Belize I was exposed to nature tremendously. I would visit the Mayan ruin “xunantunich” and just sit at the very top and admire the greenery; this very moment was the high light of my day. Many years later that Mayan ruin is the place where I can escape and be free; xunantunich is where my love for nature began. After leaving Belize I have not found a place where I find peace and my move for nature slowly die until I was introduced to Thoreau,…

What is solitude? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines solitude as the quality of being alone or remote from society. Henry David Thoreau’s “Solitude” from Walden revolves around the concept of solitude, including the misconceptions about it. Thoreau uses solitude as a positive way to promote the company of nature, rather than the company of other humans. However, he believes that an individual can only choose from the two, since being surrounded by one more than the other will not have the…

Throughout Salva's personal journey he learned many lessons that impacted him in A Long Walk to Water making him more independent, braver and more of a leader. Salva became more independent as a person because in the book A Long Walk to Water slava was left in a barn all by himself and he had to find a way to get to the refugee camp, I can support this because in the text it states “Finally he sat up and opened his eyes no one else was in the barn. Nobody.Nothing. They had left him. He was…

Thoreau’d, Less Taken Solitude and Modern Man’s Games After high school, I jumped off the conveyor belt— I didn’t go to college or the military upon graduating high school, as is custom for young people in my socioeconomic class. Instead, I elected to take a “gap” period, and in doing so, “dropped the ball.” That is, I stopped playing the games I was told to play. The capitalist game, the social pyramid climb. They tasted bitter to me. Acrid, all this energy invested in the future. Like…

As a result of the fast changing world, people are losing sight of the simplicity of life. People in modern society concern themselves too much with gaining wealth and spending free time on technology. This could be a threat to a person’s ability to fully appreciate nature and to see their self worth. Henry David Thoreau, poet and writer, lived in the wilderness away from distractions to experience self discovery. Through this time, he discovered the importance of not allowing a modern society…

communicating responsibility, but to the human factor as well. These principles help to explain the paradox in the writers’ antithetical experiences. In Thoreau’s case, the sheer physical disconnect between himself- an isolated inhabitant of a cabin on Walden Pond- and the authority over him- the government- dilutes the government’s influence on him. Thoreau only actually meets “this American government, or its representative, the State government, directly, and face to face, once a year- no…