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Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. ...
In 1838, Thoreau and his brother, John, established a school in Concord based on the ideas of Transcendentalism, which was based on the belief that knowledge is not limited to or derived from experience and observation, and stated that the solution to human problems lies in the free development of individual emotions. When John became fatally ill, the school was closed and Thoreau went to live with his mentor, Emerson. ...
In 1845, Thoreau built a small cabin near Walden Pond on Emerson’s land. ... This journal later became his masterpiece, Walden.
Thoreau wrote an essay called Civil Disobedience during an overnight stay in prison for refusing to pay a poll tax that supported the Mexican War. ...
After leaving Walden, he again lived with Emerson for three years. ...
Thoreau was considered a naturalist who emphasized the ecology of the natural world. ... His most famous book, Walden, was an account of his experiment in near-solitary living in close harmony with nature.
Walden proved that a man could live off of himself and didn’t need to rely on anything but his own integrity and skill. ...
Most of Thoreau’s works are essays on different subjects of life and his beliefs. ...
Walden begins with Thoreau simply stating that his two-year stay at the pond was to be temporary and experimental. ... Thoreau believed that unnecessary possessions would only lead to extra work to acquire them, and that they also oppressed people with feelings of worry and constraint that nothing they get will ever be good enough. So to get all these things they didn’t need, they begin working all the time and loss their inner freedom that Thoreau felt so strongly about. ...
Thoreau describes the construction of his small cabin. ...
Thoreau devoted an entire section of Walden to reading. ...
Thoreau proceeds to go from being alone to writing a section on visitors, but it does not contradict because these visitors only add to the harmony one must find through solitude. ...
To keep himself busy and to earn money, Thoreau planted two and half acres of beans, along with some potatoes, turnips, and peas. ...
Thoreau would often hike to Concord to meet with the townsmen and catch up on the latest gossip. ...
From this one day in jail, Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience, which criticized government institutions and stated that it never proved itself useful. ... Thoreau was not an anarchist and against any form of government completely, but he was just calling for a better government. ... Doing what is right should always come first in Thoreau’s mind.
Thoreau believed that unjust laws existed.
Approximate Word count = 2179
Approximate Pages = 8.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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