David Henry Hwang

wilderness of Alaska in early September 1992. Chris believed he could live his life without the disruption of others. Henry David Thoreau believed that individuals can strive for themselves without government interruption. Chris McCandless, in Jon Krakauer’s documentary Into the Wild, believes that living off the land and life to its fullest without help from others compares to Henry David Thoreau’s beliefs in his writing “Civil Disobedience.” Chris McCandless thought the only way to live life is to

Another character of literature who demonstrated these traits of Transcendentalism was named Chris McCandless. His incredible journey was described throughout Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, in which he trekked westward across the United States on a solo journey. Chris’s journey met an abrupt end when he hitchhiked his way into the Alaskan wilderness, where he attempted to live amongst the frontier. It was here that he died in 1992 due to starvation. However, this journey cemented Chris’s legacy as

Hemingway’s character Santiago from The Old Man and the Sea is an example of a transcendentalist that takes Thoreau’s ideologies about nature and transcendentalism to heart. Santiago is an old man who’s life revolves around going out to fish on the open sea every day. The character that Hemingway created is clearly a transcendentalist due to his strong connection with nature and his desire to explore the sea on his own, as well as the fact that he exhibits the three key points of learning that Emerson

processes of thought, or a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical”, but that’s only part of what Transcendentalism is. Transcendentalism is standing for One of the first people to write about Transcendentalism were Henry David Thoreau writer of “Resistance to Civil Government” and Ralph Waldo Emerson writer of “Nature” and “Self-Reliance”. Those writers through their writing inspired people like Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. “ If the stars should appear

"Walden" The essay by E.B. White and the original work by Henry David Thoreau on "Walden" both reflect on the serenity of Thoreau's Walden Pond. Here Thoreau gives the tone of the simple pleasures of nature, " As I walk along the stony shore of the pond in my shirt-sleeves, though it is cool as well as cloudy and windy, and I see nothing special to attract me, all the elements are unusually congenial to me. The bullfrogs trump to usher in the night, and the note of the whip-poor-will is borne on

The world is full of people who put their self-interests first, making the world evil and unjust. Henry David Thoreau made a speech in 1848 responding to the government and its injustices. This speech and later essay would commonly be known as civil disobedience. Today, we find everybody living and following their own rules made for their own interest, participating in many immoral activities, and encouraging the rule of injustice. However, we can also find people, like Thoreau, trying to resist

1. Henry David Thoreau, the author of Civil Disobedience, utilized a variety of metaphors that relate to the relationship between an individual and state. Throughout the essay, Thoreau described what the function of a government should be and the role of an individual in that perticular system of state. Thoreau illustrated the government as a machine that is continuously operating under the operator, which represents the people. As a result of this comparison, Thoreau also included the friction that

There are many factors and people in my life that have influenced my identity; that gave me the proper respect, influence, outgoing, and brave characteristics that I have today. I feel like I have become a way better person than i was in the past and I overcame many things that have scared me in the past mentally and self consciously. Ever since I was a kid it would be very difficult to be myself in front of anyone because I alway felt that I was different to everyone mainly becuase of my sexuallity

and a place he felt he could be himself with freedom. He lived in a small house he built himself on the shore of Walden Pond. He experienced living in a cabin. He spent most time outside exploring nature and walking a long distance in the woods. Henry David Thoreau was one of the poets in the Romanticism period and was admired the beauty of nature. In the book Walden by Thoreau, he emphasizes the deem he felt in nature and his reverence with nature. Fireside poets were influenced by the Romanticism

While growing up, our parents taught us what was right and what was wrong based on their beliefs and views. When we were younger, we were taught to follow and obey those who were older than us and possessed a higher authoritative status. One’s reasoning for being obedient includes: religious beliefs, background, and work ethics. Civil disobedience played a large role in America. Creating protests, riots, and sit-ins, America had many examples of disobedience. In America, we value our rights as citizens