1) Mr. Thoreau seems to be self-contained and calm 2) “I have never declined paying the highway tax, because I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject, and, as for supporting schools, I am doing my part to educate my fellow countrymen now.” (Paragraph 37) He makes clear the ways in which he wants to support the state and his fellow countrymen. “If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies, and so a man.” I think he is comparing how a plant and a man live and it is one type of an analogy. 3) “If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth, certainly the machine will wear out”(Paragraph 19) Mr. Thoreau referring “machine” …show more content…
Eavan Boland, “It’s A Woman’s World” 1) She does physical housework. “but we’re the same”(Page 8) she believes women's role in the world is to take care of children and cleaning the house thought to be less significant than world events. 2) Speaker makes herself believable by sounding educated about the past “so when the king’s head gored its basket, grim harvest, we were gristing bread.”(Page 29-32) It is important that she uses first-person plural; because it makes her involved with what she is describing but not alone. 3) Mrs. Boland specifies “oversights” such as “washing powder” and forgetting to dry the laundry and they contribute to the meaning of the poem and to the attitude of the speaker toward her woman’s role. 4) In lines 21-22 and line 54, she refers to star-gazers and fire-eaters twice; where repetition helps reinforce the speaker’s purpose or create an …show more content…
3) A syllogistic reasoning for this is; When you procrastinate you get stressed. The student procrastinated. Therefore he is stressed. Activity 3(pp. 137-38): Part I) Morrison uses a lot of details to describe a place formerly known as "The Bottom." Because of this the reader can really understand how much this place must have meant to her. The details make "The Bottom" seem much more personal, so it's easier for readers to relate to the writer's connection with such a special place. The tone is formal and serious as Morrison recalls past memories and events, but it also seems angry and frustrated. Her statement of, "a steel ball will knock to dust Irene's Palace of Cosmetology ..." is ironic. Part II) The writer's aim is to inform the unknowing of how her old town, full of history and memories, was torn down for a golf course. I think she's trying to say that people are becoming too obsessed with material things. The writer is trying to get across that may be destroying a place with so many memories of so many individuals and families is not a good
In his essay, Thoreau uses the extended metaphor of the government-as-machine to emphasize how government dehumanizes its citizens. He relates the government to a machine in that it is made up of many parts which all must work together for the machine to be successful. If something is broken, one can fix the “machine” in order to better suit his/her needs. Thoreau introduces this metaphor when he states, “men serve the state not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.” He begins with the first, military men who serve with their bodies. These men, in most cases, have no free exercise of moral sense serving under the state. Without the use of their moral sense or conscience, Thoreau comes to the conclusion that they can be replaced by objects such as wood and stones and therefore, “have
Thoreau's Civil Disobedience talks about politics, government and the issues concerning these areas today. "Government is best which governs least." This motto means that the government should not have complete power over the people. The people's opinion is what matters the most. Individualism is stressed throughout his writing. To stand up for what you believe in and not bend backwards for the government is necessary. He speaks of Slavery and the war in Mexico and how is must be put to a stop. The people are responsible for this happening. Many people opposed these things yet did nothing to change it. Allowing yourself to be a part of injustice makes you a part of the negativity. Paying taxes to a corrupt government makes you
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately…to suck the marrow out of life…and not when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.” Thoreau, Walden. Thoreau was not just a radical yet respected thinker for his time, but now as well. Thoreau has a very important lesson and idea to teach through the workings of a pen. Thoreau’s works have greatly influenced our culture for over a hundred years. Thoreau’s ideas have definitely influenced contemporary ideas, but we have also developed our own separate ideas in the past century and a half.
To Henry David Thoreau, nature serves as a reminder to take a break from the fast paced style of life. Thoreau is a transcendentalist writer who isolated himself from society to live a life at his own pace. The title of his work, Where I Lived and What I Lived For, presents the purpose of his writing. Thoreau expresses where he resided and his reasoning for living there. He successfully achieves his purpose through the use of aphorisms and paradox. He begins his essay with direct and simple vocabulary that clearly states his purpose. He “went to the woods” in order “to front only the essential facts of life”. His destination and intentions are clear. His diction represent his way of thought where details are not needed. His use of aphorisms
It’s the end of the school day. I finally breathe and release myself of the stress and the frustration of a normal school day. I sit on the benches outside and wait for my ride. With technology gone and no people to talk to, I just sit still. The evergreen trees gently move in some of the final gusts of the summer breeze. And as I’m looking at life’s beauty and as thoughts swim through my brain, I become frightened. Because, I have never thought of life, as a whole, so profoundly. It transforms into satisfaction. Without distractions, I sit with my thoughts and world’s alluring nature. As I relive this moment in my mind, I can’t help but think of Henry David Thoreau. How he just sometimes sat and took in everything, and absorbed everything
“A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still, more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anymore seen”. I think Thoreau presents an effective argument, because of his freedom of speech, he stands up for what he believes in, and his honesty.
There is a flaws in our government system therefore we must government system. In order to reform government system people should stop accepting government decision, instead of accepting government decision they should disobey the law. Also, his purpose is to point out his audience that citizens are machines they accept everything government told them to do therefore he is criticizing them and he believes they are responsible for the flaws in the government system. Therefore, he likes people who are go against government like him.
AP Final Exam Essay: In Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience he uses several of the 3 rhetorical appeals affects the way the reader interpreters his writings. Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. In Civil Disobedience he talks largely about the Mexican-American War as an example to explain the dislike about the government.
I think Fitzgerald, F. Scott wrote this sentance to symbolise the rebirth of life. It also infisist that the setting is occuring in the summer.
“…this government never of itself furthered any enterprise…” (Thoreau, 1). Thoreau states his belief that the government never has its people in mind and only takes action when it will benefit the few rather than the majority. In this elaborate rant, Thoreau criticizes the government and the people who fail to make change in the country. Thoreau heavily relies on ethical and logical appeals to convey his clear message. “This is the whole history of ‘My Prisons’” (Thoreau, 10). Although Thoreau talks about how it is unethical for the country to go to war and promote slavery, to get people to sympathize with him, Thoreau summarizes his experience in jail for partaking in civil disobedience and not paying a tax. This anecdote depicted the country in a terrible light due to Thoreau’s description of the hateful jail experience. Although this strategy does emotionally appeal greatly to the audience, the full essay isn’t effective. Thoreau discusses many topics ranging from his personal experiences to flaws in the government, people, and legislature. In the eighteen pages of “Civil Disobedience”, Thoreau does not use transitional phrases when he switches between topics. Rhetorical questions’ abundance distracted the readers and it more than likely made them forget about the central theme. “Now what are they? Men at all? Or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power?” (Thoreau, 2). Rhetorical questions are used to evoke thought, but the use of some of them when they are not even related to the main message can distract the audience and make them think about something completely different. Thoreau also alluded to different events and people of the time. He also tended to allude to specific excerpts in literature in which he felt were related to what he was discussing. “Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, as his corse to the rampart we hurried; not a
In his expository essay Resistance to Civil Government, Henry Thoreau compares men serving in the armed forces of The United States to wooden statues and he discusses how the government has manipulated and used their men. Throughout the course of Thoreau’s essay, he challenges his reader to look beyond the superficial aspect of their country and address the issues that often go unnoticed. Thoreau dares readers to respond boldly to topics and decisions that they might consider unfair or unjust. Prompted by an instance in which he stood up for a tax that he thought was unjust, Thoreau writes a provoking, almost taunting essay in which he describes some of the abuses that the government has forced on its people.
Henry David Thoreau was man of simplicity, and if he were to experience life in Cary, he would not only be surprised, but disappointed in humanity itself. Thoreau believed in the necessities of life, nothing more, and the people of Cary live lives exactly the opposite. Cary residents live lives of material possessions, business, and over-complexity. These traits of society are precisely opposite of Thoreau’s
As the tale begins we immediately can sympathize with the repressive plight of the protagonist. Her romantic imagination is obvious as she describes the "hereditary estate" (Gilman, Wallpaper 170) or the "haunted house" (170) as she would like it to be. She tells us of her husband, John, who "scoffs" (170) at her romantic sentiments and is "practical to the extreme" (170). However, in a time
Thoreau believed that we should fight against injustice through non-violence, instead of being neither acquiescent nor using physical violence. “Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine.” This meant that we should stop the government and corporations that had no conscience. He deemed that
significance of this section in the poem is the underlying relationship between what the narrater