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= = =from //Walden//= =by Henry David Thoreau=

The Works: //Where I lived,and What I Lived For// http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/WALDEN/hdt02.html //The Conclusion// http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/WALDEN/hdt18.html

Thoreau was a man of the Civil Rights era. //Walden// was another of his works, in addition to "Civil Disobedience" that spoke of change within government, even with the risk of being arrested. //Walden// also attacked America's economy and its greed within such a capitalistic society. He also expressed his views of nature, not as a passive object, but a world all its own, filled with excitement. This allowed him to inspire his readers with a spiritual connection to it.
 * Purpose:**


 * Techniques:**
 * Tone: Thoreau uses many different tones when addressing different parts of the piece. At times he is practical, but at others it is almost mystical or lyrical.
 * Narration: first person, but told like a story almost as it to entertain

> Ex. comparing himself to a god when he moves to Walden Pond, "Olympus is but the outside of the earth every where.” > -“Our life is fritted away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his then toes, and lump the rest.” > -“The nation itself, with all it’s so-called internal improvements, which, by the way, are all external and superficial, is just such an unwieldy and overgrown establishment, cluttered with furniture and tripped up by its own traps, ruined by luxury and heedless expense, by want of calculation and a worthy aim, as the million households in the land…” > > -"Time is but the stream I go a-fshing in. I drink at it: but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is." > >
 * Themes:**
 * Simplicity: he finds comfort in farming and living wherever he is comfortable (in nature)
 * Dependence on oneself: living in the woods and not being committed or responsible to anyone else


 * A Replica of Henry David Thoreau's Cabin**

Go to Civil Disobedience