Walden By Henry David Thoreau

The excerpt Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, is a piece that explores the purpose of life, especially if it isn 't lived to the fullest. Thoreau starts by sharing the meaning and value of life. His idea of his personal achievement was to live life and die with a sense of peace and knowledge that he did not waste a single moment. He wanted to live life while being true to himself regardless of whether he would find life to be cruel or a wonderful place, and this was a risk he was willing to take. In a modern sense we are intrigued by technology. Although those in favor of technology may say that the new devices and applications do not affect human interaction and our way of living we are, are unable to see that, even in a room filled with people, there is an isolation barrier and an inability to live life to the fullest.

In order to be heard by the government policies speak up for yourself. Speak up and let it be known what you want when you feel it’s right. “Let every man make known what of government would command his respect”. Just like what Thoreau believed to speak up and stand up for your voices to be heard. Thoreau was a man that believed that the government shouldn't be in your life business. Also a man that believed in how he could live by himself in nature and escaped from society. He wanted to be an independent person living a peaceful harmony and nature in which he focused the most on. Life was a waste of time if you rushing it in which he shows in “Walden”. “Lead lives of quiet desperation” meaning his life by living in a simple lifestyle was bringing

Jackie Robinson was the first ever African American to ever play in Major League Baseball. This caused a major change in Major League Baseball history because he was the first one to play in a all white league. He had to deal with a lot of people being mean to him and trying to hurt him and also trying to get him to lash out at people so that he could get kicked out of the MLB. This theme can be seen in the work of Henry David Thoreau. An example of this theme can be seen in the movie 42. Walden by Henry David Thoreau, and 42 by Brian Helgeland show that hard work and dedication leads to success in life.This theme is supported by tone, self-reliance, and characters perseverance in both texts.

Henry David Thoreau was a very influential writer in the 1800s and still is today. Thoreau was one of America’s “greats” when it came to early American literature. Henry David Thoreau wrote one of the most influential essays entitled Civil Disobedience. This essay was Thoreau’s political statement, it outlined his views on non violent resistance. Civil Disobedience was written during the Mexican War. The Mexican War was a conflict between Mexico and America that was caused by a dispute over the boundary between Texas and Mexico, as well as by Mexico 's refusal to discuss selling California and New Mexico to the United States. Thoreau and many other Americans strongly objected to the war and protested by not paying taxes. During this time, Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience urging people to resist government policies with which they disagree. Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience has influenced many Americans over the years.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American philosopher, author, poet, abolitionist, and naturalist. He was famous for his essay, “Civil Disobedience”, and his book, Walden. He believed in individual conscience and nonviolent acts of political resistance to protest unfair laws. Moreover, he valued the importance of observing nature, being individual, and living in a simple life by his own values. His writings later influenced the thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. In “Civil Disobedience” and Walden, he advocated individual nonviolent resistance to the unjust state and reflected his simple living in the nature.

Into the Wild, a book about a man who ran away from childhood problems and decided to walk into the wilderness by himself after getting rid of all of his materialistic items like his car and money, and Walden, a book about a man who ran towards simplicity and solitude to understand what life was really about, are two incredible. The stories are timeless and will still be talked about in fifty years. The protagonists, Thoreau and Chris, had their differences and similarities. A big difference between them is their motives for leaving the city and going into the wilderness; Thoreau wanted to live life to the fullest, while Chris wanted to leave the problems at home. Both Chris and Thoreau rejected materialism, and they both respected animals.

In April 1992, a young man named Chris McCandless, also known as Alexander Supertramp, stepped into the Alaskan bush on a journey to escape the materialistic society he came from and to pursue a life of adventure. Over a century earlier in 1845, another young man, Henry David Thoreau, built himself a small cabin in the wilderness with similar intentions. Both their adventures were recorded in Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, and Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, respectively. Although they had some similar beliefs, their mindsets were often different; both disregarded advice of others, though for different reasons, neither connected solitude to loneliness, and both men had different reasons for choosing materialistic free lifestyles.

Henry David Thoreau, wrote an assay about “Civil Disobedience” in 1849. Thoreau a man whit strong believes about government been needed for the people, but needed to be modified. The writer states that, “government is best which governs least” the best government is the one who rules a nation by putting innocent people to risk to keep them safe. For example, the Mexican war, a war that a president set as one of his four goals throughout his presidency. Thoreau, decided to spend a night on jail instead of paying his poll taxes, taxes that till this day is hard to understand why people pay taxes everyday and at the end of the year there is more taxes taking out of citizen grand total earn. Thoreau claims, “not at once no government, but at once a better government” people need rules, laws and protection. People need government, a government that cares for each and one of them as a human being. What the government needs is less wars, better government, and reduce taxes, so citizens can make a decent living.

Before discussing whether or not Civil Disobedience is an appropriate weapon in a democracy, one must understand what Civil Disobedience is and how it was developed. The definition of civil disobedience is simple: the refusal to obey laws as a way of forcing the government to do or change something. The man who developed the undertones of Civil Disobedience was Henry David Thoreau. Several key figures looked to his famous paper, The Duty of Civil Disobedience, for inspiration. In a Democracy, Civil Disobedience is not an appropriate weapon in the fight for justice.

Some small examples include belief against abortion and I also believe that sex before marriage is immoral. I strongly believe in the seven sacraments and I believe that we should always pray for the dead. As a Christian I believe in confession and I strongly believe in the afterlife. As a Christian I have learned to always forgive and forget anyone that has sinned against our God.

Transcendentalists believed in several topics including civil disobedience, simplicity, and self-reliance, but one of the most important ideas is that of the role and essence of nature. Transcendentalists like Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Emerson, and Walt Whitman disconnected from society and secluded themselves in nature, and disregarded the superficial characteristics that are so often noted to find a significant meaning in their lives. Henry David Thoreau advocates escaping the instability of society and delving into nature to understand oneself and to learn the lessons that need to be learned for one to function in the insanity of man’s world and its contrived notions. While, Ralph Waldo Emerson analyze the world and discovers that it

Within the passage of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, it demonstrates multiple examples of Romanticism. The concepts being mentioned are ideas about going transcending ordinary societal beliefs, following ones’ intuition, and creating a new moral law.

Amour propre is, essentially, the opposite of self-preservation (amour de soi). Amour propre is an acute awareness of, and regard for, oneself in relation to others. Whilst the savage person cares only for his survival, civilized man also cares deeply about what others think about him. This is an intensive hurtful psychological malformation, associated to the advancement of human comprehension and political societies. At its root is a diversity between being and presenting. Savage man can only "be," and has no concept of pretense: civil man is forced to compare himself to others, and to lie to himself. Rousseau traces the development of amour propre back to the first village festivals, in which competition to dance and sing well increases

Walden author, David Henry Thoreau, has a simple life philosophy and, quite ironically, it is to live a simple life. Thoreau displays his philosophical ideas in his memoir, which he is most known for, Walden. Reading his memoir, we are exposed to his ideas on how one must regard life which is, rather than getting what one wants, but, to disregard what is irrelevant in our lives and to move forward towards our aspirations. Personally, I share similar views due to my constant termination of anything in my life that will slow down or stop me from reaching my goals. Like Thoreau, I believe that being unbiased, having an optimistic outlook on life itself, and working towards meeting my goals will lead me to live a successful and simple life.

Section 40 draws readers’ attention to the theme of the piece by the usage of anaphora and rhetorical question. The section asks readers why should they put up with someone that is “without” all of these qualities. It makes the readers think and focuses them on the main point of the essay.