In life we all have new and different challenges thrown at us every day that we have to face. Henry David Thoreau’s has six key themes about life and how he lived a simple life using these themes. These thoughts would include Hearing the different drummer, being awake aware and alive, examining desperate and deliberate lives, living in society, living in nature and confronting the mean and sublime. What I took away from Henry David Thoreau was that I loved the way he thought and I could understand where he was coming from with his ideas. Hearing that different drummer is being able to believe in yourself by following your own dreams, following your conscious and no one else telling you how to live your life. I picture the drum Thoreau is
