Walden

Everyone has a unique way of expressing themselves, and sometimes it’s hard to find someone that has the same beliefs as us. Chris Mccandless wanted to be away from society, where he was able to find peace within himself. The thought of doing the same thing over and over again was just not for him. A person who was very similar to Mccandless was Henry David Thoreau. They both shared similar values, had different results of their actions, and had a few things that they both could’ve learned…

Thoreau’s book Walden was first published the decade before the Civil War. The Economy is the first chapter of the book wherein Thoreau attempts to rationalize why he chose to spend two years and two months living in a cabin, away from the hustle and bustle of modern society. All throughout the chapter readers can see that the writer is not able to rectify his own ideals from that of society’s. Rather than just being a commentary on his objections to that modern society, could Thoreau’s text…

Santiago the main character of the book ‘The Alchemist’ lives in a small village his dream was to travel the world. He love books he always had a book with him. By becoming shepherd he wanted to travel the world away from his little, small village. His parents wanted that their son should lead ordinary life like any other person in their village. They wanted that their son should become a priest. His father like all other parents try to explain him that what you are doing is not wrong but…

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…

In his essay, “Walking,” Henry David Thoreau discusses a number of ideas on wilderness and society, and makes several bold claims about society’s detrimental effect on the “wild.” He begins by expressing his affinity for taking long walks on which he “saunters” outdoors. Thoreau explains that not everyone is equipped with the necessary disposition for these types of journeys and says, “no wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession.”…

Thoreau writings had a great impact on Chris. Chris tried to live life like Thoreau. Chris’s view on society was shaped impart by Thoreau. Chris wanted live life not just be a part of it. Thoreau wrote “…I mean that they should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end,” (American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau, 17). Chris and Thoreau have many things in common. They both wanted to…

Henry David Thoreau, an unconventional Romantic writer, uses his experience at Walden Pond to decipher the significant elements of life. Through his time spent in solitude, he ponders upon personal development and wishes to “live deliberately” and simply. Thoreau’s idea of living simply and reflecting on the important things in life allows him to realize that society is filled with a myriad of detrimental matters, including the prominent materialistic mindset, unnecessary distractions including…

isolate himself at Walden Pond for two years of his life. More than a century later, Thomas Merton would pursue the idea of solitude and importance of nature from his hermitage in Kentucky. Both men valued solitude and the bond between humanity and nature; however, their stances on the topics would differ. Thoreau, being from the mid-1800s, was more self-centered, believing that one should isolate themselves in nature in order to achieve a…

Mother Nature has in store. In Henry David Thoreau’s story, from Walden, he realizes there is a lot more than what meets the eye between nature and humanity. He decides to find out all he can by living on Walden’s pond for a full year. In another story, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, he makes an accidental discovery in nature that totally reveals his thoughts on humanity, including his own wife and children. While both Thoreau’s Walden and Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels help readers find some…

from it. Social media was like my comfort and I cared about it so much. For example, I always wanted so many likes on my posts on Facebook and Instagram. During the Walden experience, it made me change my mind and it made me ask myself why? Why did I care so much about the likes instead of the actual picture or actual status? This Walden experience really changed my perspective on social media. Being out in nature, made me realize how much time I was spending away from my family…